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Tallapoosa County, Alabama

10,409 Black residents · 25.2% of the county · ranked 24 of 67 in Alabama by Black population

In Tallapoosa County, Alabama, the 2020 Census counted 41,311 people, 10,409 of them Black alone. At 25.2%, Tallapoosa County's Black share stands against the state's 25.8% — the comparison this entry is built around.

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Black share of state population — Alabama 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, 202041,311
Black residents (alone), 202010,409
Black share of the county, 202025.2%
Rank by Black population among Alabama counties24 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 Tallapoosa County counted 11,083 Black residents; in 2020 it counted 10,409. The population declined by 6.1% across the decade, and the Black share in Tallapoosa County moved from 26.6% to 25.2%.

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

Tallapoosa County is one of 67 counties and county equivalents the Census Bureau counts in Alabama. Together they hold the state's 1.3 million Black residents, and Tallapoosa County's 10,409 of them give it rank 24 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 Tallapoosa County are the published redistricting counts, reproduced as released.

Institutions

For the institutions of Black Tallapoosa County — its congregations, schools, and civic life — this gazetteer points to the place entries inside the county's borders, where each town and community is entered on its own count. The Tallapoosa County page is their frame: 41,311 residents, 10,409 of them Black, and the movement of the last two censuses.