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The black population increased in Baton Rouge after the Civil War. [66] Including the consolidated city–parish of Baton Rouge in 2019 (East Baton Rouge Parish), the American Community Survey estimated 443,763 people lived in the area. [4] In 2020, the U.S. Census Bureau determined 456,781 people lived in the consolidated city–parish. [67]
In 1860, blacks (mostly slaves) made up nearly one-third of the town's population. By the 1880 U.S. census, Baton Rouge was 60 percent black. It was not until the 1920 census that the white population of Baton Rouge exceeded 50 percent of the total.
Within the U.S., Louisiana has the fifth largest overall African American population. Louisiana has the second largest percentage of African Americans in the country, only behind Mississippi. [5] As of the 2020 U.S. census, Black Louisianians of African heritage were 32.8% of the state's population. [6]
This list of U.S. cities by black population covers all incorporated cities and Census-designated places with a population over 100,000 and a proportion of black residents over 30% in the 50 U.S. states, the District of Columbia, and the territory of Puerto Rico and the population in each city that is black or African American.
Southern University and A&M College (Southern University, Southern, SUBR or SU) is a public historically black land-grant university in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.It is the largest historically black college or university (HBCU) in Louisiana, a member-school of the Thurgood Marshall College Fund, and the flagship institution of the Southern University System.
The population was 1,073 in 2020. It is part of the Baton Rouge metropolitan statistical area. History ... Black or African American (non-Hispanic) 9
At the 2019 census estimates, the racial and ethnic makeup of East Baton Rouge Parish was 46.8% non-Hispanic white, 46.1% Black and African American, 0.2% American Indian and Alaska Native, 3.2% Asian alone, 1.8% some other race, and 1.9% two or more races; Hispanic and Latin Americans of any race made up 4.2% of the total population. [14]
About 80 percent of the city population is African-American. A quarter of Metro Detroit ... Baton Rouge. Black Belt of Louisiana [42] - Bobtown, Mossville, ...