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Rapides Parish, Louisiana

40,484 Black residents · 31.1% of the county · ranked 8 of 64 in Louisiana by Black population

Rapides Parish is a Louisiana county entry in the gazetteer's first edition in the Black Belt heartland. In the 2020 Census, Rapides Parish held 130,023 residents in all, of whom 40,484 — 31.1% — 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	130,023
Black residents (alone), 2020	40,484
Black share of the county, 2020	31.1%
Rank by Black population among Louisiana counties	8 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 Rapides Parish: 42,113 Black residents in 2010 and 40,484 in 2020. The population declined by 3.9%, and the Black share in Rapides Parish moved from 32.0% to 31.1%.

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 Louisiana, the Census Bureau counts 64 counties and county equivalents, Rapides Parish among them; it stands 8 by Black population, with 40,484 Black residents of the state's 1.5 million. 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 Rapides Parish, Louisiana, exactly as published.

Institutions

The institutions of Black Rapides Parish, Louisiana, 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 Rapides Parish page gives the frame they stand in: 130,023 residents in all, 40,484 of them Black, and the county's direction across the last two censuses.