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Pointe Coupee Parish, Louisiana

7,245 Black residents · 34.9% of the county · ranked 38 of 64 in Louisiana by Black population

Pointe Coupee Parish is a Louisiana county entry in the gazetteer's first edition in the Black Belt heartland. In the 2020 Census, Pointe Coupee Parish held 20,758 residents in all, of whom 7,245 — 34.9% — were Black alone, the count this gazetteer records for every place on the same terms.

Black share of state population — Louisiana 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

Measure	Figure
Total population, 2020	20,758
Black residents (alone), 2020	7,245
Black share of the county, 2020	34.9%
Rank by Black population among Louisiana counties	38 of 64

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 Pointe Coupee Parish: 8,284 Black residents in 2010 and 7,245 in 2020. The population declined by 12.5%, and the Black share in Pointe Coupee Parish moved from 36.3% to 34.9%.

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

Pointe Coupee Parish is one of 64 counties and county equivalents the Census Bureau counts in Louisiana. Together they hold the state's 1.5 million Black residents, and Pointe Coupee Parish's 7,245 of them give it rank 38 of 64 in that order. The county is the gazetteer's middle geography — larger than the places inside it, smaller than the state frame — and the figures printed here for Pointe Coupee Parish are the published redistricting counts, reproduced as released.

Institutions

For the institutions of Black Pointe Coupee Parish — its congregations, schools, and civic life — this gazetteer points to the place entries inside the county's borders, where each town and community is entered on its own count. The Pointe Coupee Parish page is their frame: 20,758 residents, 7,245 of them Black, and the movement of the last two censuses.