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Tangipahoa Parish, Louisiana

40,039 Black residents · 30.1% of the county · ranked 9 of 64 in Louisiana by Black population

The gazetteer enters Tangipahoa Parish, Louisiana, on its published figures: a total population of 133,157 in 2020, with 40,039 Black residents counted alone — 30.1% of the county, a share that fixes the county's place in the state's pattern.

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Black share of state population — Louisiana 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, 2020133,157
Black residents (alone), 202040,039
Black share of the county, 202030.1%
Rank by Black population among Louisiana counties9 of 64

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 Tangipahoa Parish: 36,654 Black residents in 2010, 40,039 in 2020 — grew by 9.2% over the decade, with the Black share of the whole moving from 30.3% to 30.1%.

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

Tangipahoa Parish is one of 64 counties and county equivalents the Census Bureau counts in Louisiana. Together they hold the state's 1.5 million Black residents, and Tangipahoa Parish's 40,039 of them give it rank 9 of 64 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 Tangipahoa Parish are the published redistricting counts, reproduced as released.

Institutions

The institutions of Black Tangipahoa Parish, Louisiana, 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 Tangipahoa Parish page gives the frame they stand in: 133,157 residents in all, 40,039 of them Black, and the county's direction across the last two censuses.