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Wichita County, Texas
13,887 Black residents · 10.7% of the county · ranked 26 of 254 in Texas by Black population
Wichita County is a Texas county entry in the gazetteer's first edition. In the 2020 Census, Wichita County held 129,350 residents in all, of whom 13,887 — 10.7% — were Black alone, the count this gazetteer records for every place on the same terms.
Civic Snapshot
| Measure | Figure |
|---|---|
| Total population, 2020 | 129,350 |
| Black residents (alone), 2020 | 13,887 |
| Black share of the county, 2020 | 10.7% |
| Rank by Black population among Texas counties | 26 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 Wichita County: 13,811 Black residents in 2010 and 13,887 in 2020. The population grew by 0.6%, and the Black share in Wichita County moved from 10.5% to 10.7%.
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
Wichita 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 Wichita County's 13,887 of them give it rank 26 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 Wichita County are the published redistricting counts, reproduced as released.
Institutions
Black Wichita County's institutions live at the scale of its towns and communities, and the gazetteer records them there, place by place. The Wichita County page holds the frame around them — 129,350 people in all, 13,887 of them Black — and the trend that runs through both censuses.