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St. Charles Parish, Louisiana
13,133 Black residents · 25.0% of the county · ranked 23 of 64 in Louisiana by Black population
The gazetteer enters St. Charles Parish, Louisiana, on its published figures: a total population of 52,549 in 2020, with 13,133 Black residents counted alone — 25.0% of the county, a share that fixes the county's place in the state's pattern.
Civic Snapshot
| Measure | Figure |
|---|---|
| Total population, 2020 | 52,549 |
| Black residents (alone), 2020 | 13,133 |
| Black share of the county, 2020 | 25.0% |
| Rank by Black population among Louisiana counties | 23 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 published record across two censuses for St. Charles Parish: 14,051 Black residents in 2010, 13,133 in 2020 — declined by 6.5% over the decade, with the Black share of the whole moving from 26.6% to 25.0%.
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
St. Charles 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 St. Charles Parish's 13,133 of them give it rank 23 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 St. Charles Parish are the published redistricting counts, reproduced as released.
Institutions
The institutions of Black St. Charles 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. Charles Parish page gives the frame they stand in: 52,549 residents in all, 13,133 of them Black, and the county's direction across the last two censuses.