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North Little Rock, Arkansas

27,634 Black residents · 42.8% of the place

North Little Rock is a city in Arkansas, entered in this gazetteer on its published 2020 figures: 64,591 residents in all, 27,634 of them Black alone — 42.8% of the place.

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Black share of state population — Arkansas 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, 202064,591
Black residents (alone), 202027,634
Black share of the place, 202042.8%
Rank by Black population among Arkansas places3 of 626

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 North Little Rock grew — 24,754 in 2010 and 27,634 in 2020, a change of +11.6%. The Black share of North Little Rock moved from 39.7% to 42.8% 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

North Little Rock stands in the gazetteer as one of the 626 places the Census Bureau counts in Arkansas. North Little Rock's Black population of 27,634 ranks 3 among them. The figures on this page are the published redistricting counts for North Little Rock as the Bureau bounds it, reproduced as released and cited to their table.

Institutions

In North Little Rock, a place of 64,591, institutions are carried close — the congregation, the school, the business on the main street. The federal counts record them as counts; this entry records North Little Rock itself, fixed by name, state, population, and share like every other entry in the book.