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Sugar Land, Texas

8,122 Black residents · 7.3% of the place

In the published counts, Sugar Land, Texas, holds 8,122 Black residents among 111,026 people in all — a Black share of 7.3%, against the statewide 12.2%.

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Black share of state population — Texas 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, 2020111,026
Black residents (alone), 20208,122
Black share of the place, 20207.3%
Rank by Black population among Texas places62 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

The published record across two censuses for Sugar Land: 5,853 Black residents in 2010, 8,122 in 2020 — grew by 38.8% over the decade, with the Black share of the whole moving from 7.4% to 7.3%.

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 1860 places the Census Bureau counts in Texas, Sugar Land ranks 62 by Black population, with 8,122 Black residents. Every figure here is the published redistricting count for Sugar Land within its official bounds, printed as released.

Institutions

Sugar Land is a place of 111,026 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 Sugar Land itself: its name, its state, its people, and its share, in the same terms as every other place in the book.