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Tunica County, Mississippi
7,559 Black residents · 77.3% of the county · ranked 42 of 82 in Mississippi by Black population
In Tunica County, Mississippi, the 2020 Census counted 9,782 people, 7,559 of them Black alone. At 77.3%, Tunica County's Black share stands against the state's 36.6% — the comparison this entry is built around.
Civic Snapshot
| Measure | Figure |
|---|---|
| Total population, 2020 | 9,782 |
| Black residents (alone), 2020 | 7,559 |
| Black share of the county, 2020 | 77.3% |
| Rank by Black population among Mississippi counties | 42 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
In 2010 Tunica County counted 7,918 Black residents; in 2020 it counted 7,559. The population declined by 4.5% across the decade, and the Black share in Tunica County moved from 73.5% to 77.3%.
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
Within Mississippi, the Census Bureau counts 82 counties and county equivalents, Tunica County among them; it stands 42 by Black population, with 7,559 Black residents of the state's 1.1 million. The gazetteer takes the county as its middle geography — the frame between the state page and the place pages — and prints the redistricting counts of Tunica County, Mississippi, exactly as published.
Institutions
The institutions of Black Tunica 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 Tunica County page gives the frame they stand in: 9,782 residents in all, 7,559 of them Black, and the county's direction across the last two censuses.