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St. Francis County, Arkansas

12,561 Black residents · 54.4% of the county · ranked 8 of 75 in Arkansas by Black population

The gazetteer enters St. Francis County, Arkansas, on its published figures: a total population of 23,090 in 2020, with 12,561 Black residents counted alone — 54.4% of the county, a share that fixes the county's place in the state's pattern.

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

Measure	Figure
Total population, 2020	23,090
Black residents (alone), 2020	12,561
Black share of the county, 2020	54.4%
Rank by Black population among Arkansas counties	8 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

The published record across two censuses for St. Francis County: 14,667 Black residents in 2010, 12,561 in 2020 — declined by 14.4% over the decade, with the Black share of the whole moving from 51.9% to 54.4%.

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 Arkansas, the Census Bureau counts 75 counties and county equivalents, St. Francis County among them; it stands 8 by Black population, with 12,561 Black residents of the state's 453,783. 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 St. Francis County, Arkansas, exactly as published.

Institutions

The institutions of Black St. Francis 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 St. Francis County page gives the frame they stand in: 23,090 residents in all, 12,561 of them Black, and the county's direction across the last two censuses.