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Orleans Parish, Louisiana
208,273 Black residents · 54.2% of the county · ranked 1 of 64 in Louisiana by Black population
Orleans Parish is a Louisiana county entry in the gazetteer's first edition in the Black Belt heartland. In the 2020 Census, Orleans Parish held 383,997 residents in all, of whom 208,273 — 54.2% — were Black alone, the count this gazetteer records for every place on the same terms.
Civic Snapshot
| Measure | Figure |
|---|---|
| Total population, 2020 | 383,997 |
| Black residents (alone), 2020 | 208,273 |
| Black share of the county, 2020 | 54.2% |
| Rank by Black population among Louisiana counties | 1 of 64 |
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 Orleans Parish: 206,871 Black residents in 2010 and 208,273 in 2020. The population grew by 0.7%, and the Black share in Orleans Parish moved from 60.2% to 54.2%.
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
The state's Black population of 1.5 million is spread across 64 counties and county equivalents; Orleans Parish holds 208,273 of it, rank 1 in the state's order. The county page for Orleans Parish carries the published redistricting counts unaltered, and the place pages beneath it carry the detail.
Institutions
The institutions of Black Orleans Parish, Louisiana, 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 Orleans Parish page gives the frame they stand in: 383,997 residents in all, 208,273 of them Black, and the county's direction across the last two censuses.