Editing Shreveport, Louisiana (section)

===Race and ethnicity===
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|+'''Shreveport 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 – Shreveport city, Louisiana |url=https://data.census.gov/table?q=p004&g=160XX00US2270000&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) – Shreveport city, Louisiana |url=https://data.census.gov/table?q=p2&g=160XX00US2270000&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) – Shreveport city, Louisiana |url=https://data.census.gov/cedsci/table?q=p2&g=160XX00US2270000&tid=DECENNIALPL2020.P2|website=[[United States Census Bureau]]}}</ref>
!% 2000
!% 2010
!{{partial|% 2020}}
|-
|[[Non-Hispanic or Latino whites|White]] alone (NH)
|91,857
|79,693
|style='background: #ffffe6; |66,138
|45.90%
|39.98%
|style='background: #ffffe6; |35.26%
|-
|[[Non-Hispanic or Latino African Americans|Black or African American]] alone (NH)
|101,218
|108,535
|style='background: #ffffe6; |104,612
|50.57%
|54.46%
|style='background: #ffffe6; |55.77%
|-
|[[Native Americans in the United States|Native American]] or [[Alaska Native]] alone (NH)
|568
|652
|style='background: #ffffe6; |573
|0.28%
|0.33%
|style='background: #ffffe6; |0.31%
|-
|[[Asian Americans|Asian]] alone (NH)
|1,577
|2,600
|style='background: #ffffe6; |3,031
|0.79%
|1.30%
|style='background: #ffffe6; |1.62%
|-
|[[Native Hawaiian]] or [[Pacific Islander Americans|Pacific Islander]] alone (NH)
|58
|89
|style='background: #ffffe6; |102
|0.03%
|0.04%
|style='background: #ffffe6; |0.05%
|-
|[[Race and ethnicity in the United States census|Other race]] alone (NH)
|136
|213
|style='background: #ffffe6; |668
|0.07%
|0.11%
|style='background: #ffffe6; |0.36%
|-
|[[Multiracial Americans|Mixed race or Multiracial]] (NH)
|1,625
|2,511
|style='background: #ffffe6; |5,811
|0.81%
|1.26%
|style='background: #ffffe6; |3.10%
|-
|[[Hispanic and Latino Americans|Hispanic or Latino]] (any race)
|3,106
|5,018
|style='background: #ffffe6; |6,658
|1.55%
|2.52%
|style='background: #ffffe6; |3.55%
|-
|'''Total'''
|'''200,145'''
|'''199,311'''
|style='background: #ffffe6; |'''187,593'''
|'''100.00%'''
|'''100.00%'''
|style='background: #ffffe6; |'''100.00%'''
|}

[[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. 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=July 29, 2020|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=February 13, 2022 |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">{{Cite web|title=Explore Census Data|url=https://data.census.gov/cedsci/table?g=1600000US2270000&tid=DECENNIALPL2020.P2|access-date=December 29, 2021|website=data.census.gov}}</ref> At the 2020 census, Shreveport remained a predominantly Black and African American city, with 55.77% 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=August 12, 2021|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=February 13, 2022}}</ref>