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Louisville/Jefferson County metro government (balance), Kentucky

67,783 Black residents · 17.5% of the place

Louisville/Jefferson County metro government (balance) is a community in Kentucky, entered in this gazetteer on its published 2020 figures: 386,884 residents in all, 67,783 of them Black alone — 17.5% of the place.

Black share of state population — Kentucky 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

Measure	Figure
Total population, 2020	386,884
Black residents (alone), 2020	67,783
Black share of the place, 2020	17.5%
Rank by Black population among Kentucky places	2 of 555

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 Louisville/Jefferson County metro government (balance) declined — 136,705 in 2010 and 67,783 in 2020, a change of -50.4%. The Black share of Louisville/Jefferson County metro government (balance) moved from 22.9% to 17.5% 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

Of the 555 places the Census Bureau counts in Kentucky, Louisville/Jefferson County metro government (balance) ranks 2 by Black population, with 67,783 Black residents. Every figure here is the published redistricting count for Louisville/Jefferson County metro government (balance) within its official bounds, printed as released.

Institutions

Louisville/Jefferson County metro government (balance) is a place of 386,884 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 Louisville/Jefferson County metro government (balance) itself: its name, its state, its people, and its share, in the same terms as every other place in the book.