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Ouachita County, Arkansas

8,899 Black residents · 39.3% of the county · ranked 12 of 75 in Arkansas by Black population

Ouachita County is a Arkansas county entry in the gazetteer's first edition. In the 2020 Census, Ouachita County held 22,650 residents in all, of whom 8,899 — 39.3% — were Black alone, the count this gazetteer records for every place on the same terms.

Black share of state population — Arkansas 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

Measure	Figure
Total population, 2020	22,650
Black residents (alone), 2020	8,899
Black share of the county, 2020	39.3%
Rank by Black population among Arkansas counties	12 of 75

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 Ouachita County: 10,468 Black residents in 2010 and 8,899 in 2020. The population declined by 15.0%, and the Black share in Ouachita County moved from 40.1% to 39.3%.

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

Ouachita County is one of 75 counties and county equivalents the Census Bureau counts in Arkansas. Together they hold the state's 453,783 Black residents, and Ouachita County's 8,899 of them give it rank 12 of 75 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 Ouachita County are the published redistricting counts, reproduced as released.

Institutions

The institutions of Black Ouachita County, Arkansas, 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 Ouachita County page gives the frame they stand in: 22,650 residents in all, 8,899 of them Black, and the county's direction across the last two censuses.