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Conroe, Texas

9,248 Black residents · 10.3% of the place

Conroe is a city in Texas, entered in this gazetteer on its published 2020 figures: 89,956 residents in all, 9,248 of them Black alone — 10.3% of the place.

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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, 202089,956
Black residents (alone), 20209,248
Black share of the place, 202010.3%
Rank by Black population among Texas places54 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

Across the last two censuses, the Black population of Conroe grew — 5,808 in 2010 and 9,248 in 2020, a change of +59.2%. The Black share of Conroe moved from 10.3% to 10.3% 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

Conroe stands in the gazetteer as one of the 1860 places the Census Bureau counts in Texas. Conroe's Black population of 9,248 ranks 54 among them. The figures on this page are the published redistricting counts for Conroe as the Bureau bounds it, reproduced as released and cited to their table.

Institutions

Conroe is a place of 89,956 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 Conroe itself: its name, its state, its people, and its share, in the same terms as every other place in the book.