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Culpeper County, Virginia

6,567 Black residents · 12.5% of the county · ranked 41 of 133 in Virginia by Black population

In Culpeper County, Virginia, the 2020 Census counted 52,552 people, 6,567 of them Black alone. At 12.5%, Culpeper County's Black share stands against the state's 18.6% — the comparison this entry is built around.

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Black share of state population — 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

MeasureFigure
Total population, 202052,552
Black residents (alone), 20206,567
Black share of the county, 202012.5%
Rank by Black population among Virginia counties41 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 Culpeper County counted 7,368 Black residents; in 2020 it counted 6,567. The population declined by 10.9% across the decade, and the Black share in Culpeper County moved from 15.8% to 12.5%.

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

Culpeper 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 Culpeper County's 6,567 of them give it rank 41 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 Culpeper County are the published redistricting counts, reproduced as released.

Institutions

The institutions of Black Culpeper 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 Culpeper County page gives the frame they stand in: 52,552 residents in all, 6,567 of them Black, and the county's direction across the last two censuses.