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Lehigh Acres, Florida

22,106 Black residents · 19.3% of the place

The 2020 Census counted 114,287 people in Lehigh Acres, Florida, and 22,106 of them — 19.3% — were Black alone. That count, and the share it makes, are the facts this entry for Lehigh Acres is built on.

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Black share of state population — Florida 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, 2020114,287
Black residents (alone), 202022,106
Black share of the place, 202019.3%
Rank by Black population among Florida places29 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

The two-census record for Lehigh Acres: 16,707 Black residents in 2010 and 22,106 in 2020. The population grew by 32.3%, and the Black share in Lehigh Acres moved from 19.3% to 19.3%.

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

Lehigh Acres stands in the gazetteer as one of the 955 places the Census Bureau counts in Florida. Lehigh Acres's Black population of 22,106 ranks 29 among them. The figures on this page are the published redistricting counts for Lehigh Acres as the Bureau bounds it, reproduced as released and cited to their table.

Institutions

The institutions of Lehigh Acres — its congregations, schools, and businesses — stand at the scale of its 114,287 people, and this gazetteer sets them within the county and state frames above. The entry itself fixes Lehigh Acres: name, state, people, and share, on the same terms as every place in the edition.