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Lubbock County, Texas

27,279 Black residents · 8.8% of the county · ranked 18 of 254 in Texas by Black population

Lubbock County is a Texas county entry in the gazetteer's first edition. In the 2020 Census, Lubbock County held 310,639 residents in all, of whom 27,279 — 8.8% — were Black alone, the count this gazetteer records for every place on the same terms.

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Black share of state population — Texas 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, 2020310,639
Black residents (alone), 202027,279
Black share of the county, 20208.8%
Rank by Black population among Texas counties18 of 254

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 Lubbock County: 20,952 Black residents in 2010 and 27,279 in 2020. The population grew by 30.2%, and the Black share in Lubbock County moved from 7.5% to 8.8%.

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

Lubbock County is one of 254 counties and county equivalents the Census Bureau counts in Texas. Together they hold the state's 3.6 million Black residents, and Lubbock County's 27,279 of them give it rank 18 of 254 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 Lubbock County are the published redistricting counts, reproduced as released.

Institutions

The institutions of Black Lubbock County, Texas, 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 Lubbock County page gives the frame they stand in: 310,639 residents in all, 27,279 of them Black, and the county's direction across the last two censuses.