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Pasco County, Florida

34,004 Black residents · 6.1% of the county · ranked 20 of 67 in Florida by Black population

The gazetteer enters Pasco County, Florida, on its published figures: a total population of 561,891 in 2020, with 34,004 Black residents counted alone — 6.1% of the county, a share that fixes the county's place in the state's pattern.

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

Measure	Figure
Total population, 2020	561,891
Black residents (alone), 2020	34,004
Black share of the county, 2020	6.1%
Rank by Black population among Florida counties	20 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

The published record across two censuses for Pasco County: 20,700 Black residents in 2010, 34,004 in 2020 — grew by 64.3% over the decade, with the Black share of the whole moving from 4.5% to 6.1%.

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

Pasco 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 Pasco County's 34,004 of them give it rank 20 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 Pasco County are the published redistricting counts, reproduced as released.

Institutions

The institutions of Black Pasco 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 Pasco County page gives the frame they stand in: 561,891 residents in all, 34,004 of them Black, and the county's direction across the last two censuses.