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Winter Haven, Florida

12,471 Black residents · 25.3% of the place

Winter Haven is a city in Florida, entered in this gazetteer on its published 2020 figures: 49,219 residents in all, 12,471 of them Black alone — 25.3% of the place.

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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, 202049,219
Black residents (alone), 202012,471
Black share of the place, 202025.3%
Rank by Black population among Florida places46 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

Across the last two censuses, the Black population of Winter Haven grew — 9,377 in 2010 and 12,471 in 2020, a change of +33.0%. The Black share of Winter Haven moved from 27.7% to 25.3% 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

The gazetteer enters Winter Haven among Florida's 955 counted places, at rank 46 by Black population on a count of 12,471. The figures for Winter Haven are the Bureau's published redistricting counts for the place as bounded, reproduced without adjustment.

Institutions

The institutions of Winter Haven — its congregations, schools, and businesses — stand at the scale of its 49,219 people, and this gazetteer sets them within the county and state frames above. The entry itself fixes Winter Haven: name, state, people, and share, on the same terms as every place in the edition.