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Tate County, Mississippi
8,262 Black residents · 29.4% of the county · ranked 35 of 82 in Mississippi by Black population
Tate County is a Mississippi county entry in the gazetteer's first edition in the Black Belt heartland. In the 2020 Census, Tate County held 28,064 residents in all, of whom 8,262 — 29.4% — were Black alone, the count this gazetteer records for every place on the same terms.
Civic Snapshot
| Measure | Figure |
|---|---|
| Total population, 2020 | 28,064 |
| Black residents (alone), 2020 | 8,262 |
| Black share of the county, 2020 | 29.4% |
| Rank by Black population among Mississippi counties | 35 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 Tate County: 8,755 Black residents in 2010 and 8,262 in 2020. The population declined by 5.6%, and the Black share in Tate County moved from 30.3% to 29.4%.
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; Tate County holds 8,262 of it, rank 35 in the state's order. The county page for Tate County carries the published redistricting counts unaltered, and the place pages beneath it carry the detail.
Institutions
The institutions of Black Tate 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 Tate County page gives the frame they stand in: 28,064 residents in all, 8,262 of them Black, and the county's direction across the last two censuses.