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Wayne County, Mississippi
7,732 Black residents · 39.1% of the county · ranked 39 of 82 in Mississippi by Black population
Wayne County is a Mississippi county entry in the gazetteer's first edition in the Black Belt heartland. In the 2020 Census, Wayne County held 19,779 residents in all, of whom 7,732 — 39.1% — were Black alone, the count this gazetteer records for every place on the same terms.
Civic Snapshot
| Measure | Figure |
|---|---|
| Total population, 2020 | 19,779 |
| Black residents (alone), 2020 | 7,732 |
| Black share of the county, 2020 | 39.1% |
| Rank by Black population among Mississippi counties | 39 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
The two-census record for Wayne County: 8,071 Black residents in 2010 and 7,732 in 2020. The population declined by 4.2%, and the Black share in Wayne County moved from 38.9% to 39.1%.
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 1.1 million is spread across 82 counties and county equivalents; Wayne County holds 7,732 of it, rank 39 in the state's order. The county page for Wayne County carries the published redistricting counts unaltered, and the place pages beneath it carry the detail.
Institutions
The institutions of Black Wayne 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 Wayne County page gives the frame they stand in: 19,779 residents in all, 7,732 of them Black, and the county's direction across the last two censuses.