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Hanover County, Virginia
9,808 Black residents · 8.9% of the county · ranked 30 of 133 in Virginia by Black population
The gazetteer enters Hanover County, Virginia, on its published figures: a total population of 109,979 in 2020, with 9,808 Black residents counted alone — 8.9% of the county, a share that fixes the county's place in the state's pattern.
Civic Snapshot
| Measure | Figure |
|---|---|
| Total population, 2020 | 109,979 |
| Black residents (alone), 2020 | 9,808 |
| Black share of the county, 2020 | 8.9% |
| Rank by Black population among Virginia counties | 30 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 Hanover County: 9,304 Black residents in 2010, 9,808 in 2020 — grew by 5.4% over the decade, with the Black share of the whole moving from 9.3% to 8.9%.
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; Hanover County holds 9,808 of it, rank 30 in the state's order. The county page for Hanover County carries the published redistricting counts unaltered, and the place pages beneath it carry the detail.
Institutions
The institutions of Black Hanover 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 Hanover County page gives the frame they stand in: 109,979 residents in all, 9,808 of them Black, and the county's direction across the last two censuses.