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Lee County, Mississippi

24,246 Black residents · 29.1% of the county · ranked 11 of 82 in Mississippi by Black population

Lee County is a Mississippi county entry in the gazetteer's first edition in the Black Belt heartland. In the 2020 Census, Lee County held 83,343 residents in all, of whom 24,246 — 29.1% — were Black alone, the count this gazetteer records for every place on the same terms.

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Black share of state population — Mississippi highlighted — the state in the national tile map, shaded by the Black share of each state's population. Source: U.S. Census Bureau, 2020 Census (PL 94-171), Table P1.

Civic Snapshot

MeasureFigure
Total population, 202083,343
Black residents (alone), 202024,246
Black share of the county, 202029.1%
Rank by Black population among Mississippi counties11 of 82

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

The two-census record for Lee County: 22,619 Black residents in 2010 and 24,246 in 2020. The population grew by 7.2%, and the Black share in Lee County moved from 27.3% to 29.1%.

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

Lee County is one of 82 counties and county equivalents the Census Bureau counts in Mississippi. Together they hold the state's 1.1 million Black residents, and Lee County's 24,246 of them give it rank 11 of 82 in that order. The county is the gazetteer's middle geography — larger than the places inside it, smaller than the state frame — and the figures printed here for Lee County are the published redistricting counts, reproduced as released.

Institutions

For the institutions of Black Lee County — its congregations, schools, and civic life — this gazetteer points to the place entries inside the county's borders, where each town and community is entered on its own count. The Lee County page is their frame: 83,343 residents, 24,246 of them Black, and the movement of the last two censuses.