Shreveport, Louisiana Warning: You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you log in or create an account, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.Anti-spam check. Do not fill this in! === Race and ethnicity === {| class="wikitable" style="text-align:right" |+Shreveport racial composition as of 2020<ref name=":11">{{Cite web|title=Explore Census Data|url=https://data.census.gov/cedsci/table?g=1600000US2270000&tid=DECENNIALPL2020.P2|access-date=2021-12-29|website=data.census.gov}}</ref> !scope="col"| Race !scope="col"| Number !scope="col"| Percentage |- !scope="row"| [[White (U.S. Census)|White]] (non-Hispanic) | 66,138 | 35.26% |- !scope="row"| [[African American (U.S. Census)|Black or African American]] (non-Hispanic) | 104,612 | 55.77% |- !scope="row"| [[Native American (U.S. Census)|Native American]] | 573 | 0.31% |- !scope="row"| [[Asian (U.S. Census)|Asian]] | 3,031 | 1.62% |- !scope="row"| [[Pacific Islander (U.S. Census)|Pacific Islander]] | 102 | 0.05% |- !scope="row"| [[Race (United States Census)|Other/Mixed]] | 6,479 | 3.45% |- !scope="row"| [[Hispanic (U.S. Census)|Hispanic]] or [[Latino (U.S. Census)|Latino]] | 6,658 | 3.55% |} [[File:Race and ethnicity 2010- Shreveport (5560435458).png|thumb|right|Map of racial distribution in Shreveport, 2010 U.S. census. Each dot is 25 people: <span style="color:#ff0000">'''White'''</span>, <span style="color:#0000ff">'''Black'''</span>, <span style="color:#00ff80">'''Asian'''</span>, <span style="color:#ff8000">'''Hispanic'''</span> or '''other''' (yellow).]]In 2019, the racial and ethnic makeup of Shreveport was 56.9% [[African Americans|Black and African American]], 36.8% [[Non-Hispanic whites|non-Hispanic white]], 0.4% [[Native Americans in the United States|American Indian and Alaska Native]], 1.7% [[Asian Americans|Asian]], 0.1% [[Native Hawaiians|Native Hawaiian]] and [[Pacific Islander Americans|other Pacific Islander]], 0.1% some other race, 1.5% [[Multiracial Americans|two or more races]], and 2.6% [[Hispanic and Latino Americans|Hispanic and Latino American]] of any race.<ref>{{Cite web|title=2019 Demographic and Housing Estimates|url=https://data.census.gov/cedsci/table?g=1600000US2270000&tid=ACSDP5Y2019.DP05&hidePreview=true|access-date=2021-07-16|website=data.census.gov}}</ref> At the 2010 U.S. census, the racial and ethnic composition of the population was 54.70% Black or African American, 41.16% White, 1.0% Native American, 2.0% Asian, 1.2% from some other race and 1.5% from two or more races. In 2010, about 6.5% of the population was Hispanic or Latino American of any race.<ref>{{Cite web|title=2010 Census Population of Shreveport, Louisiana - CensusViewer|url=http://censusviewer.com/city/LA/Shreveport/2010|access-date=2020-07-29|website=censusviewer.com}}{{Dead link|date=February 2023 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> Reflecting the decline in North Louisiana's population,<ref>{{Cite web |last=Adelson |first=Jeff |date=August 12, 2021 |title=Census 2020: S La. parishes grew, northern, rural parishes decline |url=https://www.ktbs.com/news/business/census-2020-s-la-parishes-grew-northern-rural-parishes-decline/article_8dae0d58-fb9d-11eb-9bef-3f5aee4c05fe.html |access-date=2022-02-13 |website=KTBS |language=en}}</ref> the city of Shreveport's racial and ethnic makeup among Hispanic and Latino Americans declined from 2010 yet rebounded from 2019's census estimates.<ref name=":11" /> At the 2020 census, Shreveport remained a predominantly Black and African American city, with 57.77% of the population identifying as such; non-Hispanic whites slightly declined to 35.26% and multiracial or Americans of another race increased to 3.45% of the population. Data from the 2020 United States census reflected growing trends of Hispanic and Latino, and Asian American population growth nationwide.<ref>{{Cite news|date=2021-08-12|title=US census: Hispanic and Asian-American driving US population growth|language=en-GB|work=BBC News|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-58195166|access-date=2022-02-13}}</ref> Summary: Please note that all contributions to Christianpedia may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly, then do not submit it here. You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it from a public domain or similar free resource (see Christianpedia:Copyrights for details). Do not submit copyrighted work without permission! Cancel Editing help (opens in new window) Discuss this page