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St. James Parish, Louisiana

9,523 Black residents · 47.2% of the county · ranked 33 of 64 in Louisiana by Black population

The gazetteer enters St. James Parish, Louisiana, on its published figures: a total population of 20,192 in 2020, with 9,523 Black residents counted alone — 47.2% of the county, a share that fixes the county's place in the state's pattern.

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Black share of state population — Louisiana 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, 202020,192
Black residents (alone), 20209,523
Black share of the county, 202047.2%
Rank by Black population among Louisiana counties33 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. James Parish: 11,180 Black residents in 2010, 9,523 in 2020 — declined by 14.8% over the decade, with the Black share of the whole moving from 50.6% to 47.2%.

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 Louisiana, the Census Bureau counts 64 counties and county equivalents, St. James Parish among them; it stands 33 by Black population, with 9,523 Black residents of the state's 1.5 million. 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. James Parish, Louisiana, exactly as published.

Institutions

The institutions of Black St. James 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. James Parish page gives the frame they stand in: 20,192 residents in all, 9,523 of them Black, and the county's direction across the last two censuses.