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Bryan, Texas

13,295 Black residents · 15.8% of the place

The 2020 Census counted 83,980 people in Bryan, Texas, and 13,295 of them — 15.8% — were Black alone. That count, and the share it makes, are the facts this entry for Bryan is built on.

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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, 202083,980
Black residents (alone), 202013,295
Black share of the place, 202015.8%
Rank by Black population among Texas places40 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

The two-census record for Bryan: 13,748 Black residents in 2010 and 13,295 in 2020. The population declined by 3.3%, and the Black share in Bryan moved from 18.0% to 15.8%.

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

Bryan stands in the gazetteer as one of the 1860 places the Census Bureau counts in Texas. Bryan's Black population of 13,295 ranks 40 among them. The figures on this page are the published redistricting counts for Bryan as the Bureau bounds it, reproduced as released and cited to their table.

Institutions

Bryan is a place of 83,980 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 Bryan itself: its name, its state, its people, and its share, in the same terms as every other place in the book.