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Noxubee County, Mississippi

7,227 Black residents · 70.3% of the county · ranked 45 of 82 in Mississippi by Black population

In Noxubee County, Mississippi, the 2020 Census counted 10,285 people, 7,227 of them Black alone. At 70.3%, Noxubee County's Black share stands against the state's 36.6% — the comparison this entry is built around.

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Black share of state population — Mississippi 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, 202010,285
Black residents (alone), 20207,227
Black share of the county, 202070.3%
Rank by Black population among Mississippi counties45 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 Noxubee County counted 8,262 Black residents; in 2020 it counted 7,227. The population declined by 12.5% across the decade, and the Black share in Noxubee County moved from 71.6% to 70.3%.

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

Noxubee 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 Noxubee County's 7,227 of them give it rank 45 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 Noxubee County are the published redistricting counts, reproduced as released.

Institutions

The institutions of Black Noxubee 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 Noxubee County page gives the frame they stand in: 10,285 residents in all, 7,227 of them Black, and the county's direction across the last two censuses.