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Oklahoma County, Oklahoma

120,320 Black residents · 15.1% of the county · ranked 1 of 77 in Oklahoma by Black population

Oklahoma County is a Oklahoma county entry in the gazetteer's first edition. In the 2020 Census, Oklahoma County held 796,292 residents in all, of whom 120,320 — 15.1% — were Black alone, the count this gazetteer records for every place on the same terms.

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Black share of state population — Oklahoma 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, 2020796,292
Black residents (alone), 2020120,320
Black share of the county, 202015.1%
Rank by Black population among Oklahoma counties1 of 77

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 Oklahoma County: 110,890 Black residents in 2010 and 120,320 in 2020. The population grew by 8.5%, and the Black share in Oklahoma County moved from 15.4% to 15.1%.

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

Oklahoma County is one of 77 counties and county equivalents the Census Bureau counts in Oklahoma. Together they hold the state's 289,961 Black residents, and Oklahoma County's 120,320 of them give it rank 1 of 77 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 Oklahoma County are the published redistricting counts, reproduced as released.

Institutions

For the institutions of Black Oklahoma 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 Oklahoma County page is their frame: 796,292 residents, 120,320 of them Black, and the movement of the last two censuses.