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Royal Palm Beach, Florida

8,855 Black residents · 22.7% of the place

In the published counts, Royal Palm Beach, Florida, holds 8,855 Black residents among 38,932 people in all — a Black share of 22.7%, against the statewide 15.1%.

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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, 202038,932
Black residents (alone), 20208,855
Black share of the place, 202022.7%
Rank by Black population among Florida places65 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 published record across two censuses for Royal Palm Beach: 7,738 Black residents in 2010, 8,855 in 2020 — grew by 14.4% over the decade, with the Black share of the whole moving from 22.7% to 22.7%.

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 Royal Palm Beach among Florida's 955 counted places, at rank 65 by Black population on a count of 8,855. The figures for Royal Palm Beach are the Bureau's published redistricting counts for the place as bounded, reproduced without adjustment.

Institutions

In Royal Palm Beach, a place of 38,932, institutions are carried close — the congregation, the school, the business on the main street. The federal counts record them as counts; this entry records Royal Palm Beach itself, fixed by name, state, population, and share like every other entry in the book.