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Waller County, Texas

12,256 Black residents · 21.6% of the county · ranked 32 of 254 in Texas by Black population

Waller County is a Texas county entry in the gazetteer's first edition. In the 2020 Census, Waller County held 56,794 residents in all, of whom 12,256 — 21.6% — were Black alone, the count this gazetteer records for every place on the same terms.

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	56,794
Black residents (alone), 2020	12,256
Black share of the county, 2020	21.6%
Rank by Black population among Texas counties	32 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 two-census record for Waller County: 10,739 Black residents in 2010 and 12,256 in 2020. The population grew by 14.1%, and the Black share in Waller County moved from 24.9% to 21.6%.

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

Waller County is one of 254 counties and county equivalents the Census Bureau counts in Texas. Together they hold the state's 3.6 million Black residents, and Waller County's 12,256 of them give it rank 32 of 254 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 Waller County are the published redistricting counts, reproduced as released.

Institutions

The institutions of Black Waller County, Texas, 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 Waller County page gives the frame they stand in: 56,794 residents in all, 12,256 of them Black, and the county's direction across the last two censuses.