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Riverview, Florida

22,369 Black residents · 20.8% of the place

The 2020 Census counted 107,396 people in Riverview, Florida, and 22,369 of them — 20.8% — were Black alone. That count, and the share it makes, are the facts this entry for Riverview 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, 2020107,396
Black residents (alone), 202022,369
Black share of the place, 202020.8%
Rank by Black population among Florida places28 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 Riverview: 12,064 Black residents in 2010 and 22,369 in 2020. The population grew by 85.4%, and the Black share in Riverview moved from 17.0% to 20.8%.

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

Riverview stands in the gazetteer as one of the 955 places the Census Bureau counts in Florida. Riverview's Black population of 22,369 ranks 28 among them. The figures on this page are the published redistricting counts for Riverview as the Bureau bounds it, reproduced as released and cited to their table.

Institutions

In Riverview, a place of 107,396, institutions are carried close — the congregation, the school, the business on the main street. The federal counts record them as counts; this entry records Riverview itself, fixed by name, state, population, and share like every other entry in the book.