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Poinciana, Florida

16,349 Black residents · 23.6% of the place

Poinciana is a census-designated place in Florida, entered in this gazetteer on its published 2020 figures: 69,309 residents in all, 16,349 of them Black alone — 23.6% 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, 202069,309
Black residents (alone), 202016,349
Black share of the place, 202023.6%
Rank by Black population among Florida places39 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 Poinciana grew — 13,016 in 2010 and 16,349 in 2020, a change of +25.6%. The Black share of Poinciana moved from 24.5% to 23.6% 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 Poinciana among Florida's 955 counted places, at rank 39 by Black population on a count of 16,349. The figures for Poinciana are the Bureau's published redistricting counts for the place as bounded, reproduced without adjustment.

Institutions

The institutions of Poinciana — its congregations, schools, and businesses — stand at the scale of its 69,309 people, and this gazetteer sets them within the county and state frames above. The entry itself fixes Poinciana: name, state, people, and share, on the same terms as every place in the edition.