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Lincoln Parish, Louisiana
18,729 Black residents · 38.7% of the county · ranked 17 of 64 in Louisiana by Black population
Lincoln Parish is a Louisiana county entry in the gazetteer's first edition in the Black Belt heartland. In the 2020 Census, Lincoln Parish held 48,396 residents in all, of whom 18,729 — 38.7% — were Black alone, the count this gazetteer records for every place on the same terms.
Civic Snapshot
| Measure | Figure |
|---|---|
| Total population, 2020 | 48,396 |
| Black residents (alone), 2020 | 18,729 |
| Black share of the county, 2020 | 38.7% |
| Rank by Black population among Louisiana counties | 17 of 64 |
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 Lincoln Parish: 18,925 Black residents in 2010 and 18,729 in 2020. The population declined by 1.0%, and the Black share in Lincoln Parish moved from 40.5% to 38.7%.
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
Lincoln Parish is one of 64 counties and county equivalents the Census Bureau counts in Louisiana. Together they hold the state's 1.5 million Black residents, and Lincoln Parish's 18,729 of them give it rank 17 of 64 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 Lincoln Parish are the published redistricting counts, reproduced as released.
Institutions
The institutions of Black Lincoln Parish, Louisiana, 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 Lincoln Parish page gives the frame they stand in: 48,396 residents in all, 18,729 of them Black, and the county's direction across the last two censuses.