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Delray Beach, Florida

17,031 Black residents · 25.5% of the place

In the published counts, Delray Beach, Florida, holds 17,031 Black residents among 66,846 people in all — a Black share of 25.5%, against the statewide 15.1%.

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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, 202066,846
Black residents (alone), 202017,031
Black share of the place, 202025.5%
Rank by Black population among Florida places38 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

The published record across two censuses for Delray Beach: 16,961 Black residents in 2010, 17,031 in 2020 — grew by 0.4% over the decade, with the Black share of the whole moving from 28.0% to 25.5%.

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

Delray Beach stands in the gazetteer as one of the 955 places the Census Bureau counts in Florida. Delray Beach's Black population of 17,031 ranks 38 among them. The figures on this page are the published redistricting counts for Delray Beach as the Bureau bounds it, reproduced as released and cited to their table.

Institutions

In Delray Beach, a place of 66,846, institutions are carried close — the congregation, the school, the business on the main street. The federal counts record them as counts; this entry records Delray Beach itself, fixed by name, state, population, and share like every other entry in the book.