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Nueces County, Texas
14,309 Black residents · 4.1% of the county · ranked 25 of 254 in Texas by Black population
Nueces County is a Texas county entry in the gazetteer's first edition. In the 2020 Census, Nueces County held 353,178 residents in all, of whom 14,309 — 4.1% — were Black alone, the count this gazetteer records for every place on the same terms.
Civic Snapshot
| Measure | Figure |
|---|---|
| Total population, 2020 | 353,178 |
| Black residents (alone), 2020 | 14,309 |
| Black share of the county, 2020 | 4.1% |
| Rank by Black population among Texas counties | 25 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 Nueces County: 13,637 Black residents in 2010 and 14,309 in 2020. The population grew by 4.9%, and the Black share in Nueces County moved from 4.0% to 4.1%.
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 Texas, the Census Bureau counts 254 counties and county equivalents, Nueces County among them; it stands 25 by Black population, with 14,309 Black residents of the state's 3.6 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 Nueces County, Texas, exactly as published.
Institutions
For the institutions of Black Nueces County — its congregations, schools, and civic life — this gazetteer points to the place entries inside the county's borders, where each town and community is entered on its own count. The Nueces County page is their frame: 353,178 residents, 14,309 of them Black, and the movement of the last two censuses.