Editing Amite County, Mississippi (section)

===Race and ethnicity===
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|+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" />