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Sumter County, Florida
8,593 Black residents · 6.6% of the county · ranked 38 of 67 in Florida by Black population
In Sumter County, Florida, the 2020 Census counted 129,752 people, 8,593 of them Black alone. At 6.6%, Sumter County's Black share stands against the state's 15.1% — the comparison this entry is built around.
Civic Snapshot
| Measure | Figure |
|---|---|
| Total population, 2020 | 129,752 |
| Black residents (alone), 2020 | 8,593 |
| Black share of the county, 2020 | 6.6% |
| Rank by Black population among Florida counties | 38 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
In 2010 Sumter County counted 9,022 Black residents; in 2020 it counted 8,593. The population declined by 4.8% across the decade, and the Black share in Sumter County moved from 9.7% to 6.6%.
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
The state's Black population of 3.2 million is spread across 67 counties and county equivalents; Sumter County holds 8,593 of it, rank 38 in the state's order. The county page for Sumter County carries the published redistricting counts unaltered, and the place pages beneath it carry the detail.
Institutions
The institutions of Black Sumter 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 Sumter County page gives the frame they stand in: 129,752 residents in all, 8,593 of them Black, and the county's direction across the last two censuses.