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Atascocita, Texas

20,572 Black residents · 23.3% of the place

Atascocita is a census-designated place in Texas, entered in this gazetteer on its published 2020 figures: 88,174 residents in all, 20,572 of them Black alone — 23.3% of the place.

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Black share of state population — Texas 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

MeasureFigure
Total population, 202088,174
Black residents (alone), 202020,572
Black share of the place, 202023.3%
Rank by Black population among Texas places25 of 1860

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

Across the last two censuses, the Black population of Atascocita grew — 12,633 in 2010 and 20,572 in 2020, a change of +62.8%. The Black share of Atascocita moved from 19.2% to 23.3% over the same span.

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

Of the 1860 places the Census Bureau counts in Texas, Atascocita ranks 25 by Black population, with 20,572 Black residents. Every figure here is the published redistricting count for Atascocita within its official bounds, printed as released.

Institutions

Atascocita is a place of 88,174 people, and it carries its institutions at its own scale — congregations, schools, and businesses recorded in the federal counts as counts, and in this gazetteer as part of the county and state frames above this entry. The entry's work is the fixing of Atascocita itself: its name, its state, its people, and its share, in the same terms as every other place in the book.