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Okaloosa County, Florida

19,660 Black residents · 9.3% of the county · ranked 25 of 67 in Florida by Black population

In Okaloosa County, Florida, the 2020 Census counted 211,668 people, 19,660 of them Black alone. At 9.3%, Okaloosa County's Black share stands against the state's 15.1% — the comparison this entry is built around.

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Black share of state population — Florida 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, 2020211,668
Black residents (alone), 202019,660
Black share of the county, 20209.3%
Rank by Black population among Florida counties25 of 67

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 Okaloosa County counted 16,797 Black residents; in 2020 it counted 19,660. The population grew by 17.0% across the decade, and the Black share in Okaloosa County moved from 9.3% to 9.3%.

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

Okaloosa County is one of 67 counties and county equivalents the Census Bureau counts in Florida. Together they hold the state's 3.2 million Black residents, and Okaloosa County's 19,660 of them give it rank 25 of 67 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 Okaloosa County are the published redistricting counts, reproduced as released.

Institutions

The institutions of Black Okaloosa County, Florida, 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 Okaloosa County page gives the frame they stand in: 211,668 residents in all, 19,660 of them Black, and the county's direction across the last two censuses.