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St. Bernard Parish, Louisiana
11,507 Black residents · 26.3% of the county · ranked 27 of 64 in Louisiana by Black population
In St. Bernard Parish, Louisiana, the 2020 Census counted 43,764 people, 11,507 of them Black alone. At 26.3%, St. Bernard Parish's Black share stands against the state's 31.4% — the comparison this entry is built around.
Civic Snapshot
| Measure | Figure |
|---|---|
| Total population, 2020 | 43,764 |
| Black residents (alone), 2020 | 11,507 |
| Black share of the county, 2020 | 26.3% |
| Rank by Black population among Louisiana counties | 27 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
In 2010 St. Bernard Parish counted 6,350 Black residents; in 2020 it counted 11,507. The population grew by 81.2% across the decade, and the Black share in St. Bernard Parish moved from 17.7% to 26.3%.
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
The state's Black population of 1.5 million is spread across 64 counties and county equivalents; St. Bernard Parish holds 11,507 of it, rank 27 in the state's order. The county page for St. Bernard Parish carries the published redistricting counts unaltered, and the place pages beneath it carry the detail.
Institutions
The institutions of Black St. Bernard 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 St. Bernard Parish page gives the frame they stand in: 43,764 residents in all, 11,507 of them Black, and the county's direction across the last two censuses.