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Henry County, Virginia

11,160 Black residents · 21.9% of the county · ranked 25 of 133 in Virginia by Black population

The gazetteer enters Henry County, Virginia, on its published figures: a total population of 50,948 in 2020, with 11,160 Black residents counted alone — 21.9% of the county, a share that fixes the county's place in the state's pattern.

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

Measure	Figure
Total population, 2020	50,948
Black residents (alone), 2020	11,160
Black share of the county, 2020	21.9%
Rank by Black population among Virginia counties	25 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 Henry County: 11,841 Black residents in 2010, 11,160 in 2020 — declined by 5.8% over the decade, with the Black share of the whole moving from 21.9% to 21.9%.

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

Henry 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 Henry County's 11,160 of them give it rank 25 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 Henry County are the published redistricting counts, reproduced as released.

Institutions

The institutions of Black Henry 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 Henry County page gives the frame they stand in: 50,948 residents in all, 11,160 of them Black, and the county's direction across the last two censuses.