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Lakeland, Florida
21,773 Black residents · 19.3% of the place
Lakeland is a city in Florida, entered in this gazetteer on its published 2020 figures: 112,641 residents in all, 21,773 of them Black alone — 19.3% of the place.
Civic Snapshot
| Measure | Figure |
|---|---|
| Total population, 2020 | 112,641 |
| Black residents (alone), 2020 | 21,773 |
| Black share of the place, 2020 | 19.3% |
| Rank by Black population among Florida places | 30 of 955 |
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 Lakeland grew — 20,351 in 2010 and 21,773 in 2020, a change of +7.0%. The Black share of Lakeland moved from 20.9% to 19.3% 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 Lakeland among Florida's 955 counted places, at rank 30 by Black population on a count of 21,773. The figures for Lakeland are the Bureau's published redistricting counts for the place as bounded, reproduced without adjustment.
Institutions
Lakeland is a place of 112,641 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 Lakeland itself: its name, its state, its people, and its share, in the same terms as every other place in the book.