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Pike County, Alabama
12,138 Black residents · 36.8% of the county · ranked 20 of 67 in Alabama by Black population
In Pike County, Alabama, the 2020 Census counted 33,009 people, 12,138 of them Black alone. At 36.8%, Pike County's Black share stands against the state's 25.8% — the comparison this entry is built around.
Civic Snapshot
| Measure | Figure |
|---|---|
| Total population, 2020 | 33,009 |
| Black residents (alone), 2020 | 12,138 |
| Black share of the county, 2020 | 36.8% |
| Rank by Black population among Alabama 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
In 2010 Pike County counted 12,054 Black residents; in 2020 it counted 12,138. The population grew by 0.7% across the decade, and the Black share in Pike County moved from 36.6% to 36.8%.
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 1.3 million is spread across 67 counties and county equivalents; Pike County holds 12,138 of it, rank 20 in the state's order. The county page for Pike County carries the published redistricting counts unaltered, and the place pages beneath it carry the detail.
Institutions
The institutions of Black Pike County, Alabama, 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 Pike County page gives the frame they stand in: 33,009 residents in all, 12,138 of them Black, and the county's direction across the last two censuses.