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Mission Bend, Texas

10,144 Black residents · 27.5% of the place

The 2020 Census counted 36,914 people in Mission Bend, Texas, and 10,144 of them — 27.5% — were Black alone. That count, and the share it makes, are the facts this entry for Mission Bend is built on.

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Black share of state population — Texas 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, 202036,914
Black residents (alone), 202010,144
Black share of the place, 202027.5%
Rank by Black population among Texas places50 of 1860

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 Mission Bend: 10,852 Black residents in 2010 and 10,144 in 2020. The population declined by 6.5%, and the Black share in Mission Bend moved from 29.7% to 27.5%.

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 1860 places the Census Bureau counts in Texas, Mission Bend ranks 50 by Black population, with 10,144 Black residents. Every figure here is the published redistricting count for Mission Bend within its official bounds, printed as released.

Institutions

Mission Bend is a place of 36,914 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 Mission Bend itself: its name, its state, its people, and its share, in the same terms as every other place in the book.