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Platte County, Missouri
8,296 Black residents · 7.8% of the county · ranked 8 of 115 in Missouri by Black population
In Platte County, Missouri, the 2020 Census counted 106,718 people, 8,296 of them Black alone. At 7.8%, Platte County's Black share stands against the state's 11.4% — the comparison this entry is built around.
Civic Snapshot
| Measure | Figure |
|---|---|
| Total population, 2020 | 106,718 |
| Black residents (alone), 2020 | 8,296 |
| Black share of the county, 2020 | 7.8% |
| Rank by Black population among Missouri counties | 8 of 115 |
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
In 2010 Platte County counted 5,270 Black residents; in 2020 it counted 8,296. The population grew by 57.4% across the decade, and the Black share in Platte County moved from 5.9% to 7.8%.
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
Within Missouri, the Census Bureau counts 115 counties and county equivalents, Platte County among them; it stands 8 by Black population, with 8,296 Black residents of the state's 699,840. The gazetteer takes the county as its middle geography — the frame between the state page and the place pages — and prints the redistricting counts of Platte County, Missouri, exactly as published.
Institutions
The institutions of Black Platte County, Missouri, are recorded in this gazetteer through its place entries — the towns and communities inside the county's borders, each entered on its own published count. Read with those entries, the Platte County page gives the frame they stand in: 106,718 residents in all, 8,296 of them Black, and the county's direction across the last two censuses.