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Sebastian County, Arkansas

8,061 Black residents · 6.3% of the county · ranked 15 of 75 in Arkansas by Black population

In Sebastian County, Arkansas, the 2020 Census counted 127,799 people, 8,061 of them Black alone. At 6.3%, Sebastian County's Black share stands against the state's 15.1% — the comparison this entry is built around.

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Black share of state population — Arkansas 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

MeasureFigure
Total population, 2020127,799
Black residents (alone), 20208,061
Black share of the county, 20206.3%
Rank by Black population among Arkansas counties15 of 75

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 Sebastian County counted 8,019 Black residents; in 2020 it counted 8,061. The population grew by 0.5% across the decade, and the Black share in Sebastian County moved from 6.4% to 6.3%.

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

Sebastian County is one of 75 counties and county equivalents the Census Bureau counts in Arkansas. Together they hold the state's 453,783 Black residents, and Sebastian County's 8,061 of them give it rank 15 of 75 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 Sebastian County are the published redistricting counts, reproduced as released.

Institutions

The institutions of Black Sebastian County, Arkansas, 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 Sebastian County page gives the frame they stand in: 127,799 residents in all, 8,061 of them Black, and the county's direction across the last two censuses.