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Sunrise, Florida

31,167 Black residents · 32.0% of the place

The 2020 Census counted 97,335 people in Sunrise, Florida, and 31,167 of them — 32.0% — were Black alone. That count, and the share it makes, are the facts this entry for Sunrise 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, 202097,335
Black residents (alone), 202031,167
Black share of the place, 202032.0%
Rank by Black population among Florida places17 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 Sunrise: 26,863 Black residents in 2010 and 31,167 in 2020. The population grew by 16.0%, and the Black share in Sunrise moved from 31.8% to 32.0%.

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

Sunrise stands in the gazetteer as one of the 955 places the Census Bureau counts in Florida. Sunrise's Black population of 31,167 ranks 17 among them. The figures on this page are the published redistricting counts for Sunrise as the Bureau bounds it, reproduced as released and cited to their table.

Institutions

Sunrise is a place of 97,335 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 Sunrise itself: its name, its state, its people, and its share, in the same terms as every other place in the book.