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Lee's Summit, Missouri

9,019 Black residents · 8.9% of the place

The 2020 Census counted 101,108 people in Lee's Summit, Missouri, and 9,019 of them — 8.9% — were Black alone. That count, and the share it makes, are the facts this entry for Lee's Summit is built on.

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Black share of state population — Missouri 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, 2020101,108
Black residents (alone), 20209,019
Black share of the place, 20208.9%
Rank by Black population among Missouri places14 of 1082

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 two-census record for Lee's Summit: 7,632 Black residents in 2010 and 9,019 in 2020. The population grew by 18.2%, and the Black share in Lee's Summit moved from 8.4% to 8.9%.

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 Lee's Summit among Missouri's 1082 counted places, at rank 14 by Black population on a count of 9,019. The figures for Lee's Summit are the Bureau's published redistricting counts for the place as bounded, reproduced without adjustment.

Institutions

In Lee's Summit, a place of 101,108, institutions are carried close — the congregation, the school, the business on the main street. The federal counts record them as counts; this entry records Lee's Summit itself, fixed by name, state, population, and share like every other entry in the book.