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Marion County, Mississippi
7,623 Black residents · 31.2% of the county · ranked 41 of 82 in Mississippi by Black population
In Marion County, Mississippi, the 2020 Census counted 24,441 people, 7,623 of them Black alone. At 31.2%, Marion 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 | 24,441 |
| Black residents (alone), 2020 | 7,623 |
| Black share of the county, 2020 | 31.2% |
| Rank by Black population among Mississippi counties | 41 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 Marion County counted 8,752 Black residents; in 2020 it counted 7,623. The population declined by 12.9% across the decade, and the Black share in Marion County moved from 32.3% to 31.2%.
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
The state's Black population of 1.1 million is spread across 82 counties and county equivalents; Marion County holds 7,623 of it, rank 41 in the state's order. The county page for Marion County carries the published redistricting counts unaltered, and the place pages beneath it carry the detail.
Institutions
The institutions of Black Marion 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 Marion County page gives the frame they stand in: 24,441 residents in all, 7,623 of them Black, and the county's direction across the last two censuses.