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Washington County, Arkansas

8,652 Black residents · 3.5% of the county · ranked 13 of 75 in Arkansas by Black population

Washington County is a Arkansas county entry in the gazetteer's first edition. In the 2020 Census, Washington County held 245,871 residents in all, of whom 8,652 — 3.5% — were Black alone, the count this gazetteer records for every place on the same terms.

Black share of state population — Arkansas 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	245,871
Black residents (alone), 2020	8,652
Black share of the county, 2020	3.5%
Rank by Black population among Arkansas counties	13 of 75

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 Washington County: 6,006 Black residents in 2010 and 8,652 in 2020. The population grew by 44.1%, and the Black share in Washington County moved from 3.0% to 3.5%.

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

Washington County is one of 75 counties and county equivalents the Census Bureau counts in Arkansas. Together they hold the state's 453,783 Black residents, and Washington County's 8,652 of them give it rank 13 of 75 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 Washington County are the published redistricting counts, reproduced as released.

Institutions

For the institutions of Black Washington County — its congregations, schools, and civic life — this gazetteer points to the place entries inside the county's borders, where each town and community is entered on its own count. The Washington County page is their frame: 245,871 residents, 8,652 of them Black, and the movement of the last two censuses.