Baton Rouge, Louisiana

=== Racial and ethnic composition ===
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center;"
|+'''Baton Rouge city, Louisiana  – Racial and ethnic composition'''<br><small>{{nobold|''Note: the US Census treats Hispanic/Latino as an ethnic category. This table excludes Latinos from the racial categories and assigns them to a separate category. Hispanics/Latinos may be of any race.''}}</small>
!Race / Ethnicity <small>(''NH = Non-Hispanic'')</small>
!Pop 2000<ref name=2000CensusP004>{{Cite web|title=P004 HISPANIC OR LATINO, AND NOT HISPANIC OR LATINO BY RACE – 2000: DEC Summary File 1 – Baton Rouge city, Arkansas|url=https://data.census.gov/table?q=p004&g=160XX00US2205000&tid=DECENNIALSF12000.P004|website=[[United States Census Bureau]]}}</ref>
!Pop 2010<ref name=2010CensusP2>{{Cite web|title=P2 HISPANIC OR LATINO, AND NOT HISPANIC OR LATINO BY RACE – 2010: DEC Redistricting Data (PL 94-171) – Baton Rouge city, Arkansas|url=https://data.census.gov/table?q=p2&g=160XX00US2205000&tid=DECENNIALPL2010.P2|website=[[United States Census Bureau]]}}</ref>
!{{partial|Pop 2020}}<ref name=2020CensusP2>{{Cite web|title=P2 HISPANIC OR LATINO, AND NOT HISPANIC OR LATINO BY RACE - 2020: DEC Redistricting Data (PL 94-171) – Baton Rouge city, Arkansas|url=https://data.census.gov/cedsci/table?q=p2&g=160XX00US2205000&tid=DECENNIALPL2020.P2|website=[[United States Census Bureau]]}}</ref>
!% 2000
!% 2010
!{{partial|% 2020}}
|-
|[[Non-Hispanic or Latino whites|White]] alone (NH)
|101,867
|86,679
|style='background: #ffffe6; |77,829
|44.71%
|37.77%
|style='background: #ffffe6; |34.22%
|-
|[[Non-Hispanic or Latino African Americans|Black or African American]] alone (NH)
|113,478
|124,542
|style='background: #ffffe6; |121,799
|49.81%
|54.27%
|style='background: #ffffe6; |53.55%
|-
|[[Native Americans in the United States|Native American]] or [[Alaska Native]] alone (NH)
|376
|397
|style='background: #ffffe6; |382
|0.17%
|0.17%
|style='background: #ffffe6; |0.17%
|-
|[[Asian Americans|Asian]] alone (NH)
|5,940
|7,469
|style='background: #ffffe6; |7,294
|2.61%
|3.25%
|style='background: #ffffe6; |3.21%
|-
|[[Pacific Islander Americans|Pacific Islander]] alone (NH)
|68
|39
|style='background: #ffffe6; |67
|0.03%
|0.02%
|style='background: #ffffe6; |0.03%
|-
|[[Race and ethnicity in the United States census|Some Other Race]] alone (NH)
|253
|332
|style='background: #ffffe6; |784
|0.11%
|0.14%
|style='background: #ffffe6; |0.34%
|-
|[[Multiracial Americans|Mixed Race or Multi-Racial]] (NH)
|1,918
|2,382
|style='background: #ffffe6; |5,797
|0.84%
|1.04%
|style='background: #ffffe6; |2.55%
|-
|[[Hispanic and Latino Americans|Hispanic or Latino]] (any race)
|3,918
|7,653
|style='background: #ffffe6; |13,518
|1.72%
|3.33%
|style='background: #ffffe6; |5.94%
|-
|'''Total'''
|'''227,818'''
|'''229,493'''
|style='background: #ffffe6; |'''227,470'''
|'''100.00%'''
|'''100.00%'''
|style='background: #ffffe6; |'''100.00%'''
|}

With the population growth of European and African-descended peoples in present-day Baton Rouge, the American Indian population declined to one of the smallest minority groups in the area. With the increase among [[people of color]] during the 20th century, Baton Rouge has also declined as a predominantly non-Hispanic white city, hastened by suburbanization, aging out, and [[white flight]]. In 1970, non-Hispanic whites represented 70.5% of the population;<ref>{{cite web|title=Louisiana—Race and Hispanic Origin for Selected Cities and Other Places: Earliest Census to 1990 |publisher=U.S. Census Bureau |url=https://www.census.gov/population/www/documentation/twps0076/twps0076.html |access-date=April 21, 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120812191959/http://www.census.gov/population/www/documentation/twps0076/twps0076.html |archive-date=August 12, 2012 }}</ref> by 2020, they represented 34.2% of the total population.

[[File:Race and ethnicity 2020 Baton Rouge, LA.png|thumb|Map of racial distribution in Baton Rouge (2020 U.S. census). Each dot is one person: {{legend inline|outline=white|white|text=⬤|textcolor=rgb(115, 178, 255)|White}} {{legend inline|outline=white|white|text=⬤|textcolor=rgb(159, 212, 0)|Black}} {{legend inline|outline=white|white|text=⬤|textcolor=rgb(255, 0, 0)|Asian}} {{legend inline|outline=white|white|text=⬤|textcolor=rgb(255, 170, 0)|Hispanic}} {{legend inline|outline=white|white|text=⬤|textcolor=rgb(140, 81, 181)|Multiracial}} {{legend inline|outline=white|white|text=⬤|textcolor=rgb(153, 102, 51)|Native American/Other}}]]

According to the 2020 United States census, [[African Americans|Black or African Americans]] made up 53.55% of the city-proper's population; according to census estimates in 2021, Black or African Americans made up the largest share of youths.<ref>{{Cite web |title=The Demographic Statistical Atlas of the United States |url=https://statisticalatlas.com/place/Louisiana/Baton-Rouge/Race-and-Ethnicity#figure/ethno-racial-composition-by-age-cohort |access-date=2022-12-12 |website=Statistical Atlas}}</ref> The remaining racial and ethnic makeup for the city in 2020 was 34.22% [[Non-Hispanic whites|non-Hispanic white]], 0.17% [[Native Americans in the United States|American Indian and Alaska Native]], 3.21% [[Asian Americans|Asian]], 0.03% [[Native Hawaiians|Native Hawaiian]] or other [[Pacific Islander Americans|Pacific Islander]], 2.55% [[Multiracial Americans|two or more races]], and 5.94% [[Hispanic and Latino Americans|Hispanic and Latino American]] of any race;<ref name=2020CensusP2/> the growing Hispanic and Latino population reflected increasing trends of nationwide diversification.<ref>{{Cite web |last1=Passel |first1=Jeffrey S. |last2=Lopez |first2=Mark Hugo |last3=Cohn |first3=D'Vera |title=U.S. Hispanic population continued its geographic spread in the 2010s |url=https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2022/02/03/u-s-hispanic-population-continued-its-geographic-spread-in-the-2010s/ |access-date=2022-05-11 |website=Pew Research Center |language=en-US}}</ref> Among the population of the city and metropolitan area, a substantial number also identify as [[Cajuns|Cajun]] or [[Louisiana Creole people|Louisiana Creole]].