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Volusia County, Florida

57,789 Black residents · 10.4% of the county · ranked 14 of 67 in Florida by Black population

In Volusia County, Florida, the 2020 Census counted 553,543 people, 57,789 of them Black alone. At 10.4%, Volusia County's Black share stands against the state's 15.1% — the comparison this entry is built around.

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Black share of state population — Florida 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, 2020553,543
Black residents (alone), 202057,789
Black share of the county, 202010.4%
Rank by Black population among Florida counties14 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 Volusia County counted 51,791 Black residents; in 2020 it counted 57,789. The population grew by 11.6% across the decade, and the Black share in Volusia County moved from 10.5% to 10.4%.

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

Volusia County is one of 67 counties and county equivalents the Census Bureau counts in Florida. Together they hold the state's 3.2 million Black residents, and Volusia County's 57,789 of them give it rank 14 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 Volusia County are the published redistricting counts, reproduced as released.

Institutions

The institutions of Black Volusia County, Florida, 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 Volusia County page gives the frame they stand in: 553,543 residents in all, 57,789 of them Black, and the county's direction across the last two censuses.