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Bowling Green, Kentucky
9,986 Black residents · 13.8% of the place
In the published counts, Bowling Green, Kentucky, holds 9,986 Black residents among 72,294 people in all — a Black share of 13.8%, against the statewide 8.0%.
Civic Snapshot
| Measure | Figure |
|---|---|
| Total population, 2020 | 72,294 |
| Black residents (alone), 2020 | 9,986 |
| Black share of the place, 2020 | 13.8% |
| Rank by Black population among Kentucky places | 4 of 555 |
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 Bowling Green: 8,071 Black residents in 2010, 9,986 in 2020 — grew by 23.7% over the decade, with the Black share of the whole moving from 13.9% to 13.8%.
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
Bowling Green stands in the gazetteer as one of the 555 places the Census Bureau counts in Kentucky. Bowling Green's Black population of 9,986 ranks 4 among them. The figures on this page are the published redistricting counts for Bowling Green as the Bureau bounds it, reproduced as released and cited to their table.
Institutions
Bowling Green is a place of 72,294 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 Bowling Green itself: its name, its state, its people, and its share, in the same terms as every other place in the book.