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Murfreesboro, Tennessee
29,799 Black residents · 19.5% of the place
In the published counts, Murfreesboro, Tennessee, holds 29,799 Black residents among 152,769 people in all — a Black share of 19.5%, against the statewide 15.8%.
Civic Snapshot
| Measure | Figure |
|---|---|
| Total population, 2020 | 152,769 |
| Black residents (alone), 2020 | 29,799 |
| Black share of the place, 2020 | 19.5% |
| Rank by Black population among Tennessee places | 7 of 504 |
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 published record across two censuses for Murfreesboro: 16,510 Black residents in 2010, 29,799 in 2020 — grew by 80.5% over the decade, with the Black share of the whole moving from 15.2% to 19.5%.
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
The gazetteer enters Murfreesboro among Tennessee's 504 counted places, at rank 7 by Black population on a count of 29,799. The figures for Murfreesboro are the Bureau's published redistricting counts for the place as bounded, reproduced without adjustment.
Institutions
Murfreesboro is a place of 152,769 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 Murfreesboro itself: its name, its state, its people, and its share, in the same terms as every other place in the book.