Editing Amite County, Mississippi (section)

==Demographics==
{{US Census population
| 1810 = 4750
| 1820 = 6853
| 1830 = 7934
| 1840 = 9511
| 1850 = 9694
| 1860 = 12336
| 1870 = 10973
| 1880 = 14004
| 1890 = 18198
| 1900 = 20708
| 1910 = 22954
| 1920 = 18960
| 1930 = 19712
| 1940 = 21892
| 1950 = 19261
| 1960 = 15573
| 1970 = 13763
| 1980 = 13369
| 1990 = 13328
| 2000 = 13599
| 2010 = 13131
| 2020 = 12720
|estyear=2023
|estimate=12442
|estref=<ref name="USCensusEst2023">{{cite web|url=https://www.census.gov/programs-surveys/popest/data/tables.html|title=Annual Estimates of the Resident Population for Counties: April 1, 2020 to July 1, 2023|publisher=United States Census Bureau|access-date=April 5, 2024}}</ref>
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| footnote = U.S. Decennial Census<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.census.gov/programs-surveys/decennial-census.html|title=U.S. Decennial Census|publisher=United States Census Bureau|access-date=November 2, 2014}}</ref>{{failed verification|reason=No mention of Amite County at this link|date=April 2022}}<br />1790–1960<ref>{{cite web|url=http://mapserver.lib.virginia.edu|title=Historical Census Browser|publisher=University of Virginia Library|access-date=November 2, 2014}}</ref> 1900–1990<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.census.gov/population/cencounts/ms190090.txt|title=Population of Counties by Decennial Census: 1900 to 1990|publisher=United States Census Bureau|access-date=November 2, 2014}}</ref><br />1990–2000<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.census.gov/population/www/cen2000/briefs/phc-t4/tables/tab02.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100327165705/http://www.census.gov/population/www/cen2000/briefs/phc-t4/tables/tab02.pdf |archive-date=March 27, 2010 |url-status=live|title=Census 2000 PHC-T-4. Ranking Tables for Counties: 1990 and 2000|publisher=United States Census Bureau|access-date=November 2, 2014}}</ref> 2010–2013<ref name="QF">{{cite web|title=State & County QuickFacts|url=http://quickfacts.census.gov/qfd/states/28/28005.html|publisher=United States Census Bureau|access-date=September 2, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110607045807/http://quickfacts.census.gov/qfd/states/28/28005.html|archive-date=June 7, 2011|url-status=dead}}</ref> 2020<ref name="QF2020"/>
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=== Population ===
As mechanization of agriculture decreased the need for farm labor, the population has dropped since its peak in 1910 at 22,954, as people left in search of work in other areas. Continuing urbanization and suburbanization in other areas has also drawn people to cities of more opportunity. From a peak of population in 1910, the county had declined through 1990. In the early part of the 20th century, particularly from 1910 to 1930, and from 1940 to 1970, it was affected by the [[Great Migration (African American)|Great Migration]] of blacks out of the segregated society for jobs and opportunities in Midwest and later, West Coast cities. From 1910 to 1920, the population declined more than 17%, as may be seen from the census table at right. Particularly in the early 20th century, Blacks left to escape the oppression and violence associated with [[Jim Crow]], [[lynchings]], and their [[Disfranchisement after Reconstruction era|disenfranchisement]] after 1890.

From 1940 to 1960, the population declined by more than 29%. Rural whites also left in those years, but a much greater number of African Americans migrated to other areas. After 1930 they became a minority in the county. In 2000, they constituted nearly 43% of the population. According to the [[2020 United States census]], there were 12,720 people, 5,218 households, and 3,401 families residing in the county.

===Race and ethnicity===
{| class="wikitable"
|+Amite County racial composition as of 2020<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|title=Explore Census Data|url=https://data.census.gov/cedsci/table?g=0500000US28005&tid=DECENNIALPL2020.P2|access-date=December 17, 2021|website=Data.census.gov}}</ref>
!Race
!Num.
!Perc.
|-
|[[White (U.S. Census)|White]] (non-Hispanic)
|7,434
|58.44%
|-
|[[African American (U.S. Census)|Black or African American]] (non-Hispanic)
|4,835
|38.01%
|-
|[[Native American (U.S. Census)|Native American]]
|25
|0.2%
|-
|[[Asian (U.S. Census)|Asian]]
|31
|0.24%
|-
|[[Race (United States Census)|Other/Mixed]]
|266
|2.09%
|-
|[[Hispanic (U.S. Census)|Hispanic]] or [[Latino (U.S. Census)|Latino]]
|129
|1.01%
|}
According to the 2010 U.S. census, 57.7% were [[White American|White]], 41.3% [[African American|Black or African American]], 0.2% Native American, 0.1% [[Asian American|Asian]], 0.2% of some other race and 0.6% [[Multiracial American|of two or more races]]. 0.8% were [[Hispanic and Latino Americans|Hispanic or Latino]] (of any race). In 2020, its racial/ethnic makeup was 58.44% non-Hispanic white, 38.01% Black or African, 0.2% Native American, 0.24% Asian, 2.09% other or multicultural, 1.01% Hispanic or Latino (of any race).<ref name=":0" />