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Fairfax County, Virginia
110,889 Black residents · 9.6% of the county · ranked 1 of 133 in Virginia by Black population
Fairfax County is a Virginia county entry in the gazetteer's first edition. In the 2020 Census, Fairfax County held 1.2 million residents in all, of whom 110,889 — 9.6% — were Black alone, the count this gazetteer records for every place on the same terms.
Civic Snapshot
| Measure | Figure |
|---|---|
| Total population, 2020 | 1,150,309 |
| Black residents (alone), 2020 | 110,889 |
| Black share of the county, 2020 | 9.6% |
| Rank by Black population among Virginia counties | 1 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 two-census record for Fairfax County: 99,218 Black residents in 2010 and 110,889 in 2020. The population grew by 11.8%, and the Black share in Fairfax County moved from 9.2% to 9.6%.
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
Fairfax 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 Fairfax County's 110,889 of them give it rank 1 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 Fairfax County are the published redistricting counts, reproduced as released.
Institutions
Black Fairfax County's institutions live at the scale of its towns and communities, and the gazetteer records them there, place by place. The Fairfax County page holds the frame around them — 1.2 million people in all, 110,889 of them Black — and the trend that runs through both censuses.