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St. Lucie County, Florida
66,407 Black residents · 20.2% of the county · ranked 11 of 67 in Florida by Black population
The gazetteer enters St. Lucie County, Florida, on its published figures: a total population of 329,226 in 2020, with 66,407 Black residents counted alone — 20.2% of the county, a share that fixes the county's place in the state's pattern.
Civic Snapshot
| Measure | Figure |
|---|---|
| Total population, 2020 | 329,226 |
| Black residents (alone), 2020 | 66,407 |
| Black share of the county, 2020 | 20.2% |
| Rank by Black population among Florida counties | 11 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. Lucie County: 53,036 Black residents in 2010, 66,407 in 2020 — grew by 25.2% over the decade, with the Black share of the whole moving from 19.1% to 20.2%.
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 Florida, the Census Bureau counts 67 counties and county equivalents, St. Lucie County among them; it stands 11 by Black population, with 66,407 Black residents of the state's 3.2 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. Lucie County, Florida, exactly as published.
Institutions
The institutions of Black St. Lucie 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. Lucie County page gives the frame they stand in: 329,226 residents in all, 66,407 of them Black, and the county's direction across the last two censuses.