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Taylor County, Texas

11,771 Black residents · 8.2% of the county · ranked 33 of 254 in Texas by Black population

The gazetteer enters Taylor County, Texas, on its published figures: a total population of 143,208 in 2020, with 11,771 Black residents counted alone — 8.2% of the county, a share that fixes the county's place in the state's pattern.

Black share of state population — Texas 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

Measure	Figure
Total population, 2020	143,208
Black residents (alone), 2020	11,771
Black share of the county, 2020	8.2%
Rank by Black population among Texas counties	33 of 254

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 Taylor County: 9,699 Black residents in 2010, 11,771 in 2020 — grew by 21.4% over the decade, with the Black share of the whole moving from 7.4% to 8.2%.

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

The state's Black population of 3.6 million is spread across 254 counties and county equivalents; Taylor County holds 11,771 of it, rank 33 in the state's order. The county page for Taylor County carries the published redistricting counts unaltered, and the place pages beneath it carry the detail.

Institutions

Black Taylor County's institutions live at the scale of its towns and communities, and the gazetteer records them there, place by place. The Taylor County page holds the frame around them — 143,208 people in all, 11,771 of them Black — and the trend that runs through both censuses.