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Plantation, Florida

19,549 Black residents · 21.3% of the place

Plantation is a city in Florida, entered in this gazetteer on its published 2020 figures: 91,750 residents in all, 19,549 of them Black alone — 21.3% of the place.

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Black share of state population — Florida 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, 202091,750
Black residents (alone), 202019,549
Black share of the place, 202021.3%
Rank by Black population among Florida places34 of 955

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 Plantation grew — 17,217 in 2010 and 19,549 in 2020, a change of +13.5%. The Black share of Plantation moved from 20.3% to 21.3% 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

The gazetteer enters Plantation among Florida's 955 counted places, at rank 34 by Black population on a count of 19,549. The figures for Plantation are the Bureau's published redistricting counts for the place as bounded, reproduced without adjustment.

Institutions

Plantation is a place of 91,750 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 Plantation itself: its name, its state, its people, and its share, in the same terms as every other place in the book.