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Pompano Beach, Florida

31,994 Black residents · 28.6% of the place

The 2020 Census counted 112,046 people in Pompano Beach, Florida, and 31,994 of them — 28.6% — were Black alone. That count, and the share it makes, are the facts this entry for Pompano Beach is built on.

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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, 2020112,046
Black residents (alone), 202031,994
Black share of the place, 202028.6%
Rank by Black population among Florida places15 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

The two-census record for Pompano Beach: 28,849 Black residents in 2010 and 31,994 in 2020. The population grew by 10.9%, and the Black share in Pompano Beach moved from 28.9% to 28.6%.

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

Of the 955 places the Census Bureau counts in Florida, Pompano Beach ranks 15 by Black population, with 31,994 Black residents. Every figure here is the published redistricting count for Pompano Beach within its official bounds, printed as released.

Institutions

Pompano Beach is a place of 112,046 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 Pompano Beach itself: its name, its state, its people, and its share, in the same terms as every other place in the book.