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Duncanville, Texas

12,262 Black residents · 30.1% of the place

Duncanville is a city in Texas, entered in this gazetteer on its published 2020 figures: 40,706 residents in all, 12,262 of them Black alone — 30.1% 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, 202040,706
Black residents (alone), 202012,262
Black share of the place, 202030.1%
Rank by Black population among Texas places44 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 Duncanville grew — 11,478 in 2010 and 12,262 in 2020, a change of +6.8%. The Black share of Duncanville moved from 29.8% to 30.1% 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

Of the 1860 places the Census Bureau counts in Texas, Duncanville ranks 44 by Black population, with 12,262 Black residents. Every figure here is the published redistricting count for Duncanville within its official bounds, printed as released.

Institutions

Duncanville is a place of 40,706 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 Duncanville itself: its name, its state, its people, and its share, in the same terms as every other place in the book.