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Henrico County, Virginia

97,568 Black residents · 29.2% of the county · ranked 2 of 133 in Virginia by Black population

The gazetteer enters Henrico County, Virginia, on its published figures: a total population of 334,389 in 2020, with 97,568 Black residents counted alone — 29.2% of the county, a share that fixes the county's place in the state's pattern.

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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, 2020334,389
Black residents (alone), 202097,568
Black share of the county, 202029.2%
Rank by Black population among Virginia counties2 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 Henrico County: 90,669 Black residents in 2010, 97,568 in 2020 — grew by 7.6% over the decade, with the Black share of the whole moving from 29.5% to 29.2%.

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

Henrico 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 Henrico County's 97,568 of them give it rank 2 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 Henrico County are the published redistricting counts, reproduced as released.

Institutions

For the institutions of Black Henrico County — its congregations, schools, and civic life — this gazetteer points to the place entries inside the county's borders, where each town and community is entered on its own count. The Henrico County page is their frame: 334,389 residents, 97,568 of them Black, and the movement of the last two censuses.