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Plano, Texas

25,523 Black residents · 8.9% of the place

In the published counts, Plano, Texas, holds 25,523 Black residents among 285,494 people in all — a Black share of 8.9%, against the statewide 12.2%.

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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, 2020285,494
Black residents (alone), 202025,523
Black share of the place, 20208.9%
Rank by Black population among Texas places19 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 published record across two censuses for Plano: 19,697 Black residents in 2010, 25,523 in 2020 — grew by 29.6% over the decade, with the Black share of the whole moving from 7.6% to 8.9%.

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

Plano stands in the gazetteer as one of the 1860 places the Census Bureau counts in Texas. Plano's Black population of 25,523 ranks 19 among them. The figures on this page are the published redistricting counts for Plano as the Bureau bounds it, reproduced as released and cited to their table.

Institutions

Plano is a place of 285,494 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 Plano itself: its name, its state, its people, and its share, in the same terms as every other place in the book.