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Monroe County, Mississippi
10,337 Black residents · 30.2% of the county · ranked 30 of 82 in Mississippi by Black population
Monroe County is a Mississippi county entry in the gazetteer's first edition in the Black Belt heartland. In the 2020 Census, Monroe County held 34,180 residents in all, of whom 10,337 — 30.2% — were Black alone, the count this gazetteer records for every place on the same terms.
Civic Snapshot
| Measure | Figure |
|---|---|
| Total population, 2020 | 34,180 |
| Black residents (alone), 2020 | 10,337 |
| Black share of the county, 2020 | 30.2% |
| Rank by Black population among Mississippi counties | 30 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
The two-census record for Monroe County: 11,420 Black residents in 2010 and 10,337 in 2020. The population declined by 9.5%, and the Black share in Monroe County moved from 30.9% to 30.2%.
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
Monroe County is one of 82 counties and county equivalents the Census Bureau counts in Mississippi. Together they hold the state's 1.1 million Black residents, and Monroe County's 10,337 of them give it rank 30 of 82 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 Monroe County are the published redistricting counts, reproduced as released.
Institutions
The institutions of Black Monroe 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 Monroe County page gives the frame they stand in: 34,180 residents in all, 10,337 of them Black, and the county's direction across the last two censuses.