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Coconut Creek, Florida

9,611 Black residents · 16.6% of the place

Coconut Creek is a city in Florida, entered in this gazetteer on its published 2020 figures: 57,833 residents in all, 9,611 of them Black alone — 16.6% of the place.

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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, 202057,833
Black residents (alone), 20209,611
Black share of the place, 202016.6%
Rank by Black population among Florida places60 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

Across the last two censuses, the Black population of Coconut Creek grew — 7,256 in 2010 and 9,611 in 2020, a change of +32.5%. The Black share of Coconut Creek moved from 13.7% to 16.6% 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 Coconut Creek among Florida's 955 counted places, at rank 60 by Black population on a count of 9,611. The figures for Coconut Creek are the Bureau's published redistricting counts for the place as bounded, reproduced without adjustment.

Institutions

Coconut Creek is a place of 57,833 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 Coconut Creek itself: its name, its state, its people, and its share, in the same terms as every other place in the book.