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Brent, Florida

8,804 Black residents · 37.5% of the place

In the published counts, Brent, Florida, holds 8,804 Black residents among 23,447 people in all — a Black share of 37.5%, against the statewide 15.1%.

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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

MeasureFigure
Total population, 202023,447
Black residents (alone), 20208,804
Black share of the place, 202037.5%
Rank by Black population among Florida places66 of 955

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 Brent: 8,523 Black residents in 2010, 8,804 in 2020 — grew by 3.3% over the decade, with the Black share of the whole moving from 39.1% to 37.5%.

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 Brent among Florida's 955 counted places, at rank 66 by Black population on a count of 8,804. The figures for Brent are the Bureau's published redistricting counts for the place as bounded, reproduced without adjustment.

Institutions

Brent is a place of 23,447 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 Brent itself: its name, its state, its people, and its share, in the same terms as every other place in the book.