page_title: Baton Rouge, Louisiana
section_title: Race and ethnicity
hierarchical_section_title: Baton Rouge, Louisiana / Demographics / Race and ethnicity
caption_attribution_description: Maps of racial and ethnic divisions in US cities, inspired by Bill Rankin's map of Chicago, updated for Census 2010. Red is White, Blue is Black, Green is Asian, Orange is Hispanic, Yellow is Other, and each dot is 25 residents. Data from Census 2010. Base map © OpenStreetMap, CC-BY-SA
context_page_description: Baton Rouge is the capital of the U.S. state of Louisiana. Located on the eastern bank of the Mississippi River, it is the parish seat of East Baton Rouge Parish, the most populous parish in Louisiana. It is the 100th most populous city in the United States, and second-largest city in Louisiana after New Orleans. It is also the 16th most populous state capital. As of the U.S. Census Bureau's July 2019 estimate, Baton Rouge had a population of 220,236, down from 229,493 at the 2010 census. Baton Rouge is the center of Greater Baton Rouge, the second-largest metropolitan area in Louisiana, with a population of 834,159 as of 2017, up from 802,484 in 2010 and 829,719 in 2015.
  The city of Baton Rouge is a major industrial, petrochemical, medical, research, motion picture, and growing technology center of the American South. It is the location of Louisiana State University, the LSU System's flagship university and the largest institution of higher education in the state. It is also the location of Southern University, the flagship institution of the Southern University System, the only historically black college system in the nation.
context_section_description: According to the 2010 census, the racial makeup of the city was 54.54% Black or African American, 39.37% White, 0.5% Native American, 3.5% Asian, and 1.3% from two or more races. Hispanics or Latinos were 3.5% of the population. Non-Hispanic Whites were 37.8% of the population, down from 70.5% in 1970. In 2018, the racial and ethnic makeup was 36.6% non-Hispanic white, 55.0% Black or African American, 0.2% American Indian or Alaska Native, 3.2% Asian American, 1.4% from two or more races, and 3.7% Hispanic or Latino of any race. Of the population, roughly 5.2% were foreign-born from 2014-2018.
caption: Map of racial distribution in Baton Rouge, 2010 U.S. Census. Each dot is 25 people: White, Black, Asian, Hispanic or Other (yellow)
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