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Brunswick County, Virginia
8,607 Black residents · 54.3% of the county · ranked 35 of 133 in Virginia by Black population
In Brunswick County, Virginia, the 2020 Census counted 15,849 people, 8,607 of them Black alone. At 54.3%, Brunswick County's Black share stands against the state's 18.6% — the comparison this entry is built around.
Civic Snapshot
| Measure | Figure |
|---|---|
| Total population, 2020 | 15,849 |
| Black residents (alone), 2020 | 8,607 |
| Black share of the county, 2020 | 54.3% |
| Rank by Black population among Virginia counties | 35 of 133 |
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
In 2010 Brunswick County counted 9,992 Black residents; in 2020 it counted 8,607. The population declined by 13.9% across the decade, and the Black share in Brunswick County moved from 57.3% to 54.3%.
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
The state's Black population of 1.6 million is spread across 133 counties and county equivalents; Brunswick County holds 8,607 of it, rank 35 in the state's order. The county page for Brunswick County carries the published redistricting counts unaltered, and the place pages beneath it carry the detail.
Institutions
The institutions of Black Brunswick County, Virginia, are recorded in this gazetteer through its place entries — the towns and communities inside the county's borders, each entered on its own published count. Read with those entries, the Brunswick County page gives the frame they stand in: 15,849 residents in all, 8,607 of them Black, and the county's direction across the last two censuses.