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Richardson, Texas
12,829 Black residents · 10.7% of the place
Richardson is a city in Texas, entered in this gazetteer on its published 2020 figures: 119,469 residents in all, 12,829 of them Black alone — 10.7% of the place.
Civic Snapshot
| Measure | Figure |
|---|---|
| Total population, 2020 | 119,469 |
| Black residents (alone), 2020 | 12,829 |
| Black share of the place, 2020 | 10.7% |
| Rank by Black population among Texas places | 42 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
Across the last two censuses, the Black population of Richardson grew — 8,507 in 2010 and 12,829 in 2020, a change of +50.8%. The Black share of Richardson moved from 8.6% to 10.7% 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 Richardson among Texas's 1860 counted places, at rank 42 by Black population on a count of 12,829. The figures for Richardson are the Bureau's published redistricting counts for the place as bounded, reproduced without adjustment.
Institutions
Richardson is a place of 119,469 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 Richardson itself: its name, its state, its people, and its share, in the same terms as every other place in the book.