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Bellefontaine Neighbors, Missouri
8,926 Black residents · 83.1% of the place
Bellefontaine Neighbors is a city in Missouri, entered in this gazetteer on its published 2020 figures: 10,740 residents in all, 8,926 of them Black alone — 83.1% of the place.
Civic Snapshot
| Measure | Figure |
|---|---|
| Total population, 2020 | 10,740 |
| Black residents (alone), 2020 | 8,926 |
| Black share of the place, 2020 | 83.1% |
| Rank by Black population among Missouri places | 15 of 1082 |
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 Bellefontaine Neighbors grew — 7,892 in 2010 and 8,926 in 2020, a change of +13.1%. The Black share of Bellefontaine Neighbors moved from 72.7% to 83.1% 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
The gazetteer enters Bellefontaine Neighbors among Missouri's 1082 counted places, at rank 15 by Black population on a count of 8,926. The figures for Bellefontaine Neighbors are the Bureau's published redistricting counts for the place as bounded, reproduced without adjustment.
Institutions
Bellefontaine Neighbors is a place of 10,740 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 Bellefontaine Neighbors itself: its name, its state, its people, and its share, in the same terms as every other place in the book.