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Clinton, Mississippi
10,754 Black residents · 38.3% of the place
Clinton is a city in Mississippi, entered in this gazetteer on its published 2020 figures: 28,100 residents in all, 10,754 of them Black alone — 38.3% of the place.
Civic Snapshot
| Measure | Figure |
|---|---|
| Total population, 2020 | 28,100 |
| Black residents (alone), 2020 | 10,754 |
| Black share of the place, 2020 | 38.3% |
| Rank by Black population among Mississippi places | 14 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 Clinton grew — 8,542 in 2010 and 10,754 in 2020, a change of +25.9%. The Black share of Clinton moved from 33.9% to 38.3% 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
The gazetteer enters Clinton among Mississippi's 428 counted places, at rank 14 by Black population on a count of 10,754. The figures for Clinton are the Bureau's published redistricting counts for the place as bounded, reproduced without adjustment.
Institutions
Clinton is a place of 28,100 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 Clinton itself: its name, its state, its people, and its share, in the same terms as every other place in the book.