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Irving, Texas

32,484 Black residents · 12.7% of the place

In the published counts, Irving, Texas, holds 32,484 Black residents among 256,684 people in all — a Black share of 12.7%, against the statewide 12.2%.

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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, 2020256,684
Black residents (alone), 202032,484
Black share of the place, 202012.7%
Rank by Black population among Texas places13 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

The published record across two censuses for Irving: 26,522 Black residents in 2010, 32,484 in 2020 — grew by 22.5% over the decade, with the Black share of the whole moving from 12.3% to 12.7%.

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 Irving among Texas's 1860 counted places, at rank 13 by Black population on a count of 32,484. The figures for Irving are the Bureau's published redistricting counts for the place as bounded, reproduced without adjustment.

Institutions

Irving is a place of 256,684 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 Irving itself: its name, its state, its people, and its share, in the same terms as every other place in the book.