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Yazoo City, Mississippi
8,860 Black residents · 85.9% of the place
Yazoo City is a city in Mississippi, entered in this gazetteer on its published 2020 figures: 10,316 residents in all, 8,860 of them Black alone — 85.9% of the place.
Civic Snapshot
| Measure | Figure |
|---|---|
| Total population, 2020 | 10,316 |
| Black residents (alone), 2020 | 8,860 |
| Black share of the place, 2020 | 85.9% |
| Rank by Black population among Mississippi places | 19 of 428 |
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 Yazoo City declined — 9,405 in 2010 and 8,860 in 2020, a change of -5.8%. The Black share of Yazoo City moved from 82.5% to 85.9% 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
Yazoo City stands in the gazetteer as one of the 428 places the Census Bureau counts in Mississippi. Yazoo City's Black population of 8,860 ranks 19 among them. The figures on this page are the published redistricting counts for Yazoo City as the Bureau bounds it, reproduced as released and cited to their table.
Institutions
Yazoo City is a place of 10,316 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 Yazoo City itself: its name, its state, its people, and its share, in the same terms as every other place in the book.