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St. Johns County, Florida

13,363 Black residents · 4.9% of the county · ranked 29 of 67 in Florida by Black population

The gazetteer enters St. Johns County, Florida, on its published figures: a total population of 273,425 in 2020, with 13,363 Black residents counted alone — 4.9% of the county, a share that fixes the county's place in the state's pattern.

Black share of state population — Florida 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	273,425
Black residents (alone), 2020	13,363
Black share of the county, 2020	4.9%
Rank by Black population among Florida counties	29 of 67

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. Johns County: 10,684 Black residents in 2010, 13,363 in 2020 — grew by 25.1% over the decade, with the Black share of the whole moving from 5.6% to 4.9%.

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. Johns County is one of 67 counties and county equivalents the Census Bureau counts in Florida. Together they hold the state's 3.2 million Black residents, and St. Johns County's 13,363 of them give it rank 29 of 67 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. Johns County are the published redistricting counts, reproduced as released.

Institutions

The institutions of Black St. Johns County, Florida, 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. Johns County page gives the frame they stand in: 273,425 residents in all, 13,363 of them Black, and the county's direction across the last two censuses.