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Nacogdoches, Texas

8,483 Black residents · 26.4% of the place

Nacogdoches is a city in Texas, entered in this gazetteer on its published 2020 figures: 32,147 residents in all, 8,483 of them Black alone — 26.4% of the place.

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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, 202032,147
Black residents (alone), 20208,483
Black share of the place, 202026.4%
Rank by Black population among Texas places60 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

Across the last two censuses, the Black population of Nacogdoches declined — 9,489 in 2010 and 8,483 in 2020, a change of -10.6%. The Black share of Nacogdoches moved from 28.8% to 26.4% 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

Nacogdoches stands in the gazetteer as one of the 1860 places the Census Bureau counts in Texas. Nacogdoches's Black population of 8,483 ranks 60 among them. The figures on this page are the published redistricting counts for Nacogdoches as the Bureau bounds it, reproduced as released and cited to their table.

Institutions

Nacogdoches is a place of 32,147 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 Nacogdoches itself: its name, its state, its people, and its share, in the same terms as every other place in the book.