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Temple, Texas
12,673 Black residents · 15.4% of the place
In the published counts, Temple, Texas, holds 12,673 Black residents among 82,073 people in all — a Black share of 15.4%, against the statewide 12.2%.
Civic Snapshot
| Measure | Figure |
|---|---|
| Total population, 2020 | 82,073 |
| Black residents (alone), 2020 | 12,673 |
| Black share of the place, 2020 | 15.4% |
| Rank by Black population among Texas places | 43 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 Temple: 11,190 Black residents in 2010, 12,673 in 2020 — grew by 13.3% over the decade, with the Black share of the whole moving from 16.9% to 15.4%.
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
Temple stands in the gazetteer as one of the 1860 places the Census Bureau counts in Texas. Temple's Black population of 12,673 ranks 43 among them. The figures on this page are the published redistricting counts for Temple as the Bureau bounds it, reproduced as released and cited to their table.
Institutions
Temple is a place of 82,073 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 Temple itself: its name, its state, its people, and its share, in the same terms as every other place in the book.