Editing Greenwood, Louisiana (section)

=== Race and ethnicity ===
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|+Greenwood racial and ethnic composition as of 2020<ref name=":1">{{Cite web |title=2020 Race and Population Totals |url=https://data.census.gov/cedsci/table?g=1600000US2231705&tid=DECENNIALPL2020.P2 |access-date=December 29, 2021 |website=U.S. Census Bureau}}</ref>
! scope="col" | Race and ethnicity
! scope="col" | Number
! scope="col" | Percentage
|-
! scope="row" | [[White (U.S. Census)|White]] (non-Hispanic)
| 1,908
| 60.27%
|-
! scope="row" | [[African American (U.S. Census)|Black or African American]] (non-Hispanic)
| 859
| 27.13%
|-
! scope="row" | [[Native American (U.S. Census)|Native American]]
| 22
| 0.69%
|-
! scope="row" | [[Asian (U.S. Census)|Asian]]
| 24
| 0.76%
|-
! scope="row" | [[Race (United States Census)|Other/Mixed]]
| 193
| 6.1%
|-
! scope="row" | [[Hispanic (U.S. Census)|Hispanic]] or [[Latino (U.S. Census)|Latino]]
| 160
| 5.05%
|}

For a majority of Greenwood's history, the town has been predominantly non-Hispanic white, though diversification has broadened the racial and ethnic makeup of the suburban community alongside much of the United States.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Frey |first=William H. |date=August 13, 2021 |title=New 2020 census results show increased diversity countering decade-long declines in America's white and youth populations |url=https://www.brookings.edu/research/new-2020-census-results-show-increased-diversity-countering-decade-long-declines-in-americas-white-and-youth-populations/ |access-date=May 4, 2022 |website=Brookings |language=en-US}}</ref>

According to the [[2000 United States census|2000 U.S. census]],<ref name="GR2">{{cite web |title=U.S. Census website |url=https://www.census.gov |access-date=January 31, 2008 |website=U.S. Census Bureau |publisher=}}</ref> the racial and ethnic makeup of Greenwood was 77.01% [[White Americans|White American]], 20.63% [[African Americans|Black or African American]], 0.41% [[Native Americans in the United States|American Indian and Alaska Native]], 0.33% [[Asian Americans|Asian]], 0.16% [[Native Hawaiians|Native Hawaiian]] or [[Pacific Islander Americans|other Pacific Islander]], 0.45% from [[Race (United States Census)|other races and ethnicities]], and 1.02% from [[Multiracial Americans|two or more races]]. [[Hispanic and Latino Americans|Hispanic or Latino Americans]] of any race were 1.79% of the population. By the 2020 census, its racial and ethnic makeup was 60.27% [[Non-Hispanic whites|non-Hispanic white]], 27.13% Black or African American, 0.69% American Indian and Alaska Native, 0.76% Asian, 6.1% multiracial or of another race or ethnicity, and 5.05% Hispanic or Latino American of any race.<ref name=":1" /> The growing Hispanic or Latino American population reflected nationwide demographic trends following the 2014 to 2019 census estimates and 2020 census.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Passel |first=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=May 4, 2022 |website=Pew Research Center |language=en-US}}</ref>