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Winston County, Mississippi

8,121 Black residents · 45.8% of the county · ranked 37 of 82 in Mississippi by Black population

Winston County is a Mississippi county entry in the gazetteer's first edition in the Black Belt heartland. In the 2020 Census, Winston County held 17,714 residents in all, of whom 8,121 — 45.8% — were Black alone, the count this gazetteer records for every place on the same terms.

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

Measure	Figure
Total population, 2020	17,714
Black residents (alone), 2020	8,121
Black share of the county, 2020	45.8%
Rank by Black population among Mississippi counties	37 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 Winston County: 8,753 Black residents in 2010 and 8,121 in 2020. The population declined by 7.2%, and the Black share in Winston County moved from 45.6% to 45.8%.

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, Winston County among them; it stands 37 by Black population, with 8,121 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 Winston County, Mississippi, exactly as published.

Institutions

The institutions of Black Winston 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 Winston County page gives the frame they stand in: 17,714 residents in all, 8,121 of them Black, and the county's direction across the last two censuses.