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West Baton Rouge Parish, Louisiana

10,754 Black residents · 39.5% of the county · ranked 29 of 64 in Louisiana by Black population

In West Baton Rouge Parish, Louisiana, the 2020 Census counted 27,199 people, 10,754 of them Black alone. At 39.5%, West Baton Rouge Parish's Black share stands against the state's 31.4% — the comparison this entry is built around.

Black share of state population — Louisiana 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	27,199
Black residents (alone), 2020	10,754
Black share of the county, 2020	39.5%
Rank by Black population among Louisiana counties	29 of 64

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 West Baton Rouge Parish counted 8,972 Black residents; in 2020 it counted 10,754. The population grew by 19.9% across the decade, and the Black share in West Baton Rouge Parish moved from 37.7% to 39.5%.

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

Within Louisiana, the Census Bureau counts 64 counties and county equivalents, West Baton Rouge Parish among them; it stands 29 by Black population, with 10,754 Black residents of the state's 1.5 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 West Baton Rouge Parish, Louisiana, exactly as published.

Institutions

The institutions of Black West Baton Rouge Parish, Louisiana, 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 West Baton Rouge Parish page gives the frame they stand in: 27,199 residents in all, 10,754 of them Black, and the county's direction across the last two censuses.