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Huntsville, Texas

11,609 Black residents · 25.3% of the place

Huntsville is a city in Texas, entered in this gazetteer on its published 2020 figures: 45,941 residents in all, 11,609 of them Black alone — 25.3% 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, 202045,941
Black residents (alone), 202011,609
Black share of the place, 202025.3%
Rank by Black population among Texas places46 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 Huntsville grew — 9,799 in 2010 and 11,609 in 2020, a change of +18.5%. The Black share of Huntsville moved from 25.4% to 25.3% 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

The gazetteer enters Huntsville among Texas's 1860 counted places, at rank 46 by Black population on a count of 11,609. The figures for Huntsville are the Bureau's published redistricting counts for the place as bounded, reproduced without adjustment.

Institutions

In Huntsville, a place of 45,941, institutions are carried close — the congregation, the school, the business on the main street. The federal counts record them as counts; this entry records Huntsville itself, fixed by name, state, population, and share like every other entry in the book.