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Kenner, Louisiana

14,562 Black residents · 21.9% of the place

Kenner is a city in Louisiana, entered in this gazetteer on its published 2020 figures: 66,448 residents in all, 14,562 of them Black alone — 21.9% of the place.

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Black share of state population — Louisiana 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, 202066,448
Black residents (alone), 202014,562
Black share of the place, 202021.9%
Rank by Black population among Louisiana places12 of 488

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 Kenner declined — 15,994 in 2010 and 14,562 in 2020, a change of -9.0%. The Black share of Kenner moved from 24.0% to 21.9% 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

Kenner stands in the gazetteer as one of the 488 places the Census Bureau counts in Louisiana. Kenner's Black population of 14,562 ranks 12 among them. The figures on this page are the published redistricting counts for Kenner as the Bureau bounds it, reproduced as released and cited to their table.

Institutions

In Kenner, a place of 66,448, institutions are carried close — the congregation, the school, the business on the main street. The federal counts record them as counts; this entry records Kenner itself, fixed by name, state, population, and share like every other entry in the book.