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Berkeley County, West Virginia

9,364 Black residents · 7.7% of the county · ranked 2 of 55 in West Virginia by Black population

The gazetteer enters Berkeley County, West Virginia, on its published figures: a total population of 122,076 in 2020, with 9,364 Black residents counted alone — 7.7% of the county, a share that fixes the county's place in the state's pattern.

Black share of state population — West Virginia highlighted — the state in the national tile map, shaded by the Black share of each state's population. Source: U.S. Census Bureau, 2020 Census (PL 94-171), Table P1.

Civic Snapshot

Measure	Figure
Total population, 2020	122,076
Black residents (alone), 2020	9,364
Black share of the county, 2020	7.7%
Rank by Black population among West Virginia counties	2 of 55

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, 2020 Census Redistricting File (Public Law 94-171), Table P1 (race). Trend: U.S. Census Bureau, 2010 Census Redistricting File (Public Law 94-171), Table P1.

Population Trend

The published record across two censuses for Berkeley County: 7,432 Black residents in 2010, 9,364 in 2020 — grew by 26.0% over the decade, with the Black share of the whole moving from 7.1% to 7.7%.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, 2020 Census Redistricting File (Public Law 94-171), Table P1 (race). Trend: U.S. Census Bureau, 2010 Census Redistricting File (Public Law 94-171), Table P1.

The Record

Berkeley County is one of 55 counties and county equivalents the Census Bureau counts in West Virginia. Together they hold the state's 65,813 Black residents, and Berkeley County's 9,364 of them give it rank 2 of 55 in that order. The county is the gazetteer's middle geography — larger than the places inside it, smaller than the state frame — and the figures printed here for Berkeley County are the published redistricting counts, reproduced as released.

Institutions

For the institutions of Black Berkeley County — its congregations, schools, and civic life — this gazetteer points to the place entries inside the county's borders, where each town and community is entered on its own count. The Berkeley County page is their frame: 122,076 residents, 9,364 of them Black, and the movement of the last two censuses.