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Leflore County, Mississippi

20,895 Black residents · 73.7% of the county · ranked 14 of 82 in Mississippi by Black population

Leflore County is a Mississippi county entry in the gazetteer's first edition in the Black Belt heartland. In the 2020 Census, Leflore County held 28,339 residents in all, of whom 20,895 — 73.7% — 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, 202028,339
Black residents (alone), 202020,895
Black share of the county, 202073.7%
Rank by Black population among Mississippi counties14 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 Leflore County: 23,342 Black residents in 2010 and 20,895 in 2020. The population declined by 10.5%, and the Black share in Leflore County moved from 72.2% to 73.7%.

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

Leflore 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 Leflore County's 20,895 of them give it rank 14 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 Leflore County are the published redistricting counts, reproduced as released.

Institutions

For the institutions of Black Leflore 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 Leflore County page is their frame: 28,339 residents, 20,895 of them Black, and the movement of the last two censuses.