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Campbell County, Virginia
7,832 Black residents · 14.1% of the county · ranked 37 of 133 in Virginia by Black population
In Campbell County, Virginia, the 2020 Census counted 55,696 people, 7,832 of them Black alone. At 14.1%, Campbell 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 | 55,696 |
| Black residents (alone), 2020 | 7,832 |
| Black share of the county, 2020 | 14.1% |
| Rank by Black population among Virginia counties | 37 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 Campbell County counted 7,767 Black residents; in 2020 it counted 7,832. The population grew by 0.8% across the decade, and the Black share in Campbell County moved from 14.2% to 14.1%.
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
Within Virginia, the Census Bureau counts 133 counties and county equivalents, Campbell County among them; it stands 37 by Black population, with 7,832 Black residents of the state's 1.6 million. The gazetteer takes the county as its middle geography — the frame between the state page and the place pages — and prints the redistricting counts of Campbell County, Virginia, exactly as published.
Institutions
The institutions of Black Campbell 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 Campbell County page gives the frame they stand in: 55,696 residents in all, 7,832 of them Black, and the county's direction across the last two censuses.