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LaGrange, Georgia
15,751 Black residents · 51.0% of the place
LaGrange is a city in Georgia, entered in this gazetteer on its published 2020 figures: 30,858 residents in all, 15,751 of them Black alone — 51.0% of the place.
Civic Snapshot
| Measure | Figure |
|---|---|
| Total population, 2020 | 30,858 |
| Black residents (alone), 2020 | 15,751 |
| Black share of the place, 2020 | 51.0% |
| Rank by Black population among Georgia places | 24 of 675 |
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 LaGrange grew — 14,207 in 2010 and 15,751 in 2020, a change of +10.9%. The Black share of LaGrange moved from 48.0% to 51.0% 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 LaGrange among Georgia's 675 counted places, at rank 24 by Black population on a count of 15,751. The figures for LaGrange are the Bureau's published redistricting counts for the place as bounded, reproduced without adjustment.
Institutions
LaGrange is a place of 30,858 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 LaGrange itself: its name, its state, its people, and its share, in the same terms as every other place in the book.