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Broward’s Black Population Grew 22 Percent This Decade. In Miami-Dade, It Barely Budged.

GERNISE GREGOIRE
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THE MOSAIC GROUP
From left, Don D. Patterson and Barron Channer, developers; and Bill Diggs, president of the Mourning Family Foundation at the eighth annual South Florida Black Economic Forum in 2018.

The racial makeup of South Florida is experiencing dramatic change, new census data show.

Between 2010 and 2018, Broward County’s black population climbed 22 percent, or by more than 100,000 residents, from an estimated 482,290 to 587,182. That includes individuals identifying as black alone and as black-Hispanic. The growth rate among individuals identifying solely as black increased a nearly parallel 20 percent.

The result: 30 percent of Broward residents now identify as black. That’s up from 27.5 percent in 2010. Broward’s total population grew from about 1.75 million to 1.95 million or 11.3 percent, during the period.

Read more at our news partner the Miami Herald.

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