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Sarasota County, Florida
16,781 Black residents · 3.9% of the county · ranked 27 of 67 in Florida by Black population
Sarasota County is a Florida county entry in the gazetteer's first edition. In the 2020 Census, Sarasota County held 434,006 residents in all, of whom 16,781 — 3.9% — were Black alone, the count this gazetteer records for every place on the same terms.
Civic Snapshot
| Measure | Figure |
|---|---|
| Total population, 2020 | 434,006 |
| Black residents (alone), 2020 | 16,781 |
| Black share of the county, 2020 | 3.9% |
| Rank by Black population among Florida counties | 27 of 67 |
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 Sarasota County: 17,815 Black residents in 2010 and 16,781 in 2020. The population declined by 5.8%, and the Black share in Sarasota County moved from 4.7% to 3.9%.
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
The state's Black population of 3.2 million is spread across 67 counties and county equivalents; Sarasota County holds 16,781 of it, rank 27 in the state's order. The county page for Sarasota County carries the published redistricting counts unaltered, and the place pages beneath it carry the detail.
Institutions
The institutions of Black Sarasota County, Florida, 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 Sarasota County page gives the frame they stand in: 434,006 residents in all, 16,781 of them Black, and the county's direction across the last two censuses.