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Fort Myers, Florida
19,459 Black residents · 22.5% of the place
In the published counts, Fort Myers, Florida, holds 19,459 Black residents among 86,395 people in all — a Black share of 22.5%, against the statewide 15.1%.
Civic Snapshot
| Measure | Figure |
|---|---|
| Total population, 2020 | 86,395 |
| Black residents (alone), 2020 | 19,459 |
| Black share of the place, 2020 | 22.5% |
| Rank by Black population among Florida places | 35 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 Fort Myers: 20,138 Black residents in 2010, 19,459 in 2020 — declined by 3.4% over the decade, with the Black share of the whole moving from 32.3% to 22.5%.
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
The gazetteer enters Fort Myers among Florida's 955 counted places, at rank 35 by Black population on a count of 19,459. The figures for Fort Myers are the Bureau's published redistricting counts for the place as bounded, reproduced without adjustment.
Institutions
Fort Myers is a place of 86,395 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 Fort Myers itself: its name, its state, its people, and its share, in the same terms as every other place in the book.