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Lee County, Florida
58,916 Black residents · 7.7% of the county · ranked 12 of 67 in Florida by Black population
In Lee County, Florida, the 2020 Census counted 760,822 people, 58,916 of them Black alone. At 7.7%, Lee County's Black share stands against the state's 15.1% — the comparison this entry is built around.
Civic Snapshot
| Measure | Figure |
|---|---|
| Total population, 2020 | 760,822 |
| Black residents (alone), 2020 | 58,916 |
| Black share of the county, 2020 | 7.7% |
| Rank by Black population among Florida counties | 12 of 67 |
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, 2020 Census Redistricting File (Public Law 94-171), Table P1 (race). Trend: U.S. Census Bureau, 2010 Census Redistricting File (Public Law 94-171), Table P1.
Population Trend
In 2010 Lee County counted 51,069 Black residents; in 2020 it counted 58,916. The population grew by 15.4% across the decade, and the Black share in Lee County moved from 8.3% to 7.7%.
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, 2020 Census Redistricting File (Public Law 94-171), Table P1 (race). Trend: U.S. Census Bureau, 2010 Census Redistricting File (Public Law 94-171), Table P1.
The Record
Within Florida, the Census Bureau counts 67 counties and county equivalents, Lee County among them; it stands 12 by Black population, with 58,916 Black residents of the state's 3.2 million. The gazetteer takes the county as its middle geography — the frame between the state page and the place pages — and prints the redistricting counts of Lee County, Florida, exactly as published.
Institutions
The institutions of Black Lee County, Florida, are recorded in this gazetteer through its place entries — the towns and communities inside the county's borders, each entered on its own published count. Read with those entries, the Lee County page gives the frame they stand in: 760,822 residents in all, 58,916 of them Black, and the county's direction across the last two censuses.