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Hoover, Alabama
15,621 Black residents · 16.9% of the place
Hoover is a city in Alabama, entered in this gazetteer on its published 2020 figures: 92,606 residents in all, 15,621 of them Black alone — 16.9% of the place.
Civic Snapshot
| Measure | Figure |
|---|---|
| Total population, 2020 | 92,606 |
| Black residents (alone), 2020 | 15,621 |
| Black share of the place, 2020 | 16.9% |
| Rank by Black population among Alabama places | 10 of 593 |
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 Hoover grew — 12,114 in 2010 and 15,621 in 2020, a change of +28.9%. The Black share of Hoover moved from 14.8% to 16.9% 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 Hoover among Alabama's 593 counted places, at rank 10 by Black population on a count of 15,621. The figures for Hoover are the Bureau's published redistricting counts for the place as bounded, reproduced without adjustment.
Institutions
Hoover is a place of 92,606 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 Hoover itself: its name, its state, its people, and its share, in the same terms as every other place in the book.