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Leon County, Florida
88,862 Black residents · 30.4% of the county · ranked 9 of 67 in Florida by Black population
In Leon County, Florida, the 2020 Census counted 292,198 people, 88,862 of them Black alone. At 30.4%, Leon 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 | 292,198 |
| Black residents (alone), 2020 | 88,862 |
| Black share of the county, 2020 | 30.4% |
| Rank by Black population among Florida counties | 9 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 Leon County counted 83,520 Black residents; in 2020 it counted 88,862. The population grew by 6.4% across the decade, and the Black share in Leon County moved from 30.3% to 30.4%.
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
Leon County is one of 67 counties and county equivalents the Census Bureau counts in Florida. Together they hold the state's 3.2 million Black residents, and Leon County's 88,862 of them give it rank 9 of 67 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 Leon County are the published redistricting counts, reproduced as released.
Institutions
The institutions of Black Leon 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 Leon County page gives the frame they stand in: 292,198 residents in all, 88,862 of them Black, and the county's direction across the last two censuses.