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Sunflower County, Mississippi
18,164 Black residents · 69.9% of the county · ranked 18 of 82 in Mississippi by Black population
Sunflower County is a Mississippi county entry in the gazetteer's first edition in the Black Belt heartland. In the 2020 Census, Sunflower County held 25,971 residents in all, of whom 18,164 — 69.9% — were Black alone, the count this gazetteer records for every place on the same terms.
Civic Snapshot
| Measure | Figure |
|---|---|
| Total population, 2020 | 25,971 |
| Black residents (alone), 2020 | 18,164 |
| Black share of the county, 2020 | 69.9% |
| Rank by Black population among Mississippi counties | 18 of 82 |
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 two-census record for Sunflower County: 21,479 Black residents in 2010 and 18,164 in 2020. The population declined by 15.4%, and the Black share in Sunflower County moved from 72.9% to 69.9%.
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
The state's Black population of 1.1 million is spread across 82 counties and county equivalents; Sunflower County holds 18,164 of it, rank 18 in the state's order. The county page for Sunflower County carries the published redistricting counts unaltered, and the place pages beneath it carry the detail.
Institutions
The institutions of Black Sunflower County, Mississippi, 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 Sunflower County page gives the frame they stand in: 25,971 residents in all, 18,164 of them Black, and the county's direction across the last two censuses.