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Byram, Mississippi
9,026 Black residents · 71.3% of the place
Byram is a city in Mississippi, entered in this gazetteer on its published 2020 figures: 12,666 residents in all, 9,026 of them Black alone — 71.3% of the place.
Civic Snapshot
| Measure | Figure |
|---|---|
| Total population, 2020 | 12,666 |
| Black residents (alone), 2020 | 9,026 |
| Black share of the place, 2020 | 71.3% |
| Rank by Black population among Mississippi places | 18 of 428 |
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 Byram grew — 5,990 in 2010 and 9,026 in 2020, a change of +50.7%. The Black share of Byram moved from 52.1% to 71.3% 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
Byram stands in the gazetteer as one of the 428 places the Census Bureau counts in Mississippi. Byram's Black population of 9,026 ranks 18 among them. The figures on this page are the published redistricting counts for Byram as the Bureau bounds it, reproduced as released and cited to their table.
Institutions
Byram is a place of 12,666 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 Byram itself: its name, its state, its people, and its share, in the same terms as every other place in the book.