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Isle of Wight County, Virginia

8,660 Black residents · 22.4% of the county · ranked 34 of 133 in Virginia by Black population

The gazetteer enters Isle of Wight County, Virginia, on its published figures: a total population of 38,606 in 2020, with 8,660 Black residents counted alone — 22.4% 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	38,606
Black residents (alone), 2020	8,660
Black share of the county, 2020	22.4%
Rank by Black population among Virginia counties	34 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 Isle of Wight County: 8,712 Black residents in 2010, 8,660 in 2020 — declined by 0.6% over the decade, with the Black share of the whole moving from 24.7% to 22.4%.

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

Within Virginia, the Census Bureau counts 133 counties and county equivalents, Isle of Wight County among them; it stands 34 by Black population, with 8,660 Black residents of the state's 1.6 million. The gazetteer takes the county as its middle geography — the frame between the state page and the place pages — and prints the redistricting counts of Isle of Wight County, Virginia, exactly as published.

Institutions

The institutions of Black Isle of Wight 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 Isle of Wight County page gives the frame they stand in: 38,606 residents in all, 8,660 of them Black, and the county's direction across the last two censuses.