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Oktibbeha County, Mississippi
18,330 Black residents · 35.4% of the county · ranked 17 of 82 in Mississippi by Black population
Oktibbeha County is a Mississippi county entry in the gazetteer's first edition in the Black Belt heartland. In the 2020 Census, Oktibbeha County held 51,788 residents in all, of whom 18,330 — 35.4% — were Black alone, the count this gazetteer records for every place on the same terms.
Civic Snapshot
| Measure | Figure |
|---|---|
| Total population, 2020 | 51,788 |
| Black residents (alone), 2020 | 18,330 |
| Black share of the county, 2020 | 35.4% |
| Rank by Black population among Mississippi counties | 17 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 Oktibbeha County: 17,431 Black residents in 2010 and 18,330 in 2020. The population grew by 5.2%, and the Black share in Oktibbeha County moved from 36.6% to 35.4%.
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
Oktibbeha 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 Oktibbeha County's 18,330 of them give it rank 17 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 Oktibbeha County are the published redistricting counts, reproduced as released.
Institutions
The institutions of Black Oktibbeha 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 Oktibbeha County page gives the frame they stand in: 51,788 residents in all, 18,330 of them Black, and the county's direction across the last two censuses.