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Spanish Lake, Missouri
15,212 Black residents · 82.6% of the place
Spanish Lake is a census-designated place in Missouri, entered in this gazetteer on its published 2020 figures: 18,413 residents in all, 15,212 of them Black alone — 82.6% of the place.
Civic Snapshot
| Measure | Figure |
|---|---|
| Total population, 2020 | 18,413 |
| Black residents (alone), 2020 | 15,212 |
| Black share of the place, 2020 | 82.6% |
| Rank by Black population among Missouri places | 4 of 1082 |
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 Spanish Lake grew — 15,116 in 2010 and 15,212 in 2020, a change of +0.6%. The Black share of Spanish Lake moved from 76.9% to 82.6% 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
Spanish Lake stands in the gazetteer as one of the 1082 places the Census Bureau counts in Missouri. Spanish Lake's Black population of 15,212 ranks 4 among them. The figures on this page are the published redistricting counts for Spanish Lake as the Bureau bounds it, reproduced as released and cited to their table.
Institutions
Spanish Lake is a place of 18,413 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 Spanish Lake itself: its name, its state, its people, and its share, in the same terms as every other place in the book.