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Livingston Parish, Louisiana

11,268 Black residents · 7.9% of the county · ranked 28 of 64 in Louisiana by Black population

The gazetteer enters Livingston Parish, Louisiana, on its published figures: a total population of 142,282 in 2020, with 11,268 Black residents counted alone — 7.9% of the county, a share that fixes the county's place in the state's pattern.

Black share of state population — Louisiana 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

Measure	Figure
Total population, 2020	142,282
Black residents (alone), 2020	11,268
Black share of the county, 2020	7.9%
Rank by Black population among Louisiana counties	28 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 published record across two censuses for Livingston Parish: 6,505 Black residents in 2010, 11,268 in 2020 — grew by 73.2% over the decade, with the Black share of the whole moving from 5.1% to 7.9%.

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

Livingston 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 Livingston Parish's 11,268 of them give it rank 28 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 Livingston Parish are the published redistricting counts, reproduced as released.

Institutions

For the institutions of Black Livingston Parish — 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 Livingston Parish page is their frame: 142,282 residents, 11,268 of them Black, and the movement of the last two censuses.