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Chesterfield County, Virginia
83,107 Black residents · 22.8% of the county · ranked 7 of 133 in Virginia by Black population
The gazetteer enters Chesterfield County, Virginia, on its published figures: a total population of 364,548 in 2020, with 83,107 Black residents counted alone — 22.8% of the county, a share that fixes the county's place in the state's pattern.
Civic Snapshot
| Measure | Figure |
|---|---|
| Total population, 2020 | 364,548 |
| Black residents (alone), 2020 | 83,107 |
| Black share of the county, 2020 | 22.8% |
| Rank by Black population among Virginia counties | 7 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
The published record across two censuses for Chesterfield County: 69,412 Black residents in 2010, 83,107 in 2020 — grew by 19.7% over the decade, with the Black share of the whole moving from 21.9% to 22.8%.
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
Chesterfield County is one of 133 counties and county equivalents the Census Bureau counts in Virginia. Together they hold the state's 1.6 million Black residents, and Chesterfield County's 83,107 of them give it rank 7 of 133 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 Chesterfield County are the published redistricting counts, reproduced as released.
Institutions
The institutions of Black Chesterfield 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 Chesterfield County page gives the frame they stand in: 364,548 residents in all, 83,107 of them Black, and the county's direction across the last two censuses.