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Wilkinson County, Mississippi

5,787 Black residents · 67.4% of the county · ranked 53 of 82 in Mississippi by Black population

The gazetteer enters Wilkinson County, Mississippi, on its published figures: a total population of 8,587 in 2020, with 5,787 Black residents counted alone — 67.4% of the county, a share that fixes the county's place in the state's pattern.

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Black share of state population — Mississippi 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

MeasureFigure
Total population, 20208,587
Black residents (alone), 20205,787
Black share of the county, 202067.4%
Rank by Black population among Mississippi counties53 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 published record across two censuses for Wilkinson County: 6,992 Black residents in 2010, 5,787 in 2020 — declined by 17.2% over the decade, with the Black share of the whole moving from 70.8% to 67.4%.

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 Mississippi, the Census Bureau counts 82 counties and county equivalents, Wilkinson County among them; it stands 53 by Black population, with 5,787 Black residents of the state's 1.1 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 Wilkinson County, Mississippi, exactly as published.

Institutions

The institutions of Black Wilkinson 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 Wilkinson County page gives the frame they stand in: 8,587 residents in all, 5,787 of them Black, and the county's direction across the last two censuses.