United States › Mississippi › Lowndes County
Lowndes County, Mississippi
25,997 Black residents · 44.2% of the county · ranked 10 of 82 in Mississippi by Black population
In Lowndes County, Mississippi, the 2020 Census counted 58,879 people, 25,997 of them Black alone. At 44.2%, Lowndes County's Black share stands against the state's 36.6% — the comparison this entry is built around.
Civic Snapshot
| Measure | Figure |
|---|---|
| Total population, 2020 | 58,879 |
| Black residents (alone), 2020 | 25,997 |
| Black share of the county, 2020 | 44.2% |
| Rank by Black population among Mississippi counties | 10 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
In 2010 Lowndes County counted 25,993 Black residents; in 2020 it counted 25,997. The population grew by 0.0% across the decade, and the Black share in Lowndes County moved from 43.5% to 44.2%.
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
Within Mississippi, the Census Bureau counts 82 counties and county equivalents, Lowndes County among them; it stands 10 by Black population, with 25,997 Black residents of the state's 1.1 million. The gazetteer takes the county as its middle geography — the frame between the state page and the place pages — and prints the redistricting counts of Lowndes County, Mississippi, exactly as published.
Institutions
The institutions of Black Lowndes County, Mississippi, 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 Lowndes County page gives the frame they stand in: 58,879 residents in all, 25,997 of them Black, and the county's direction across the last two censuses.