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Louisa County, Virginia
5,408 Black residents · 14.4% of the county · ranked 50 of 133 in Virginia by Black population
The gazetteer enters Louisa County, Virginia, on its published figures: a total population of 37,596 in 2020, with 5,408 Black residents counted alone — 14.4% of the county, a share that fixes the county's place in the state's pattern.
Civic Snapshot
| Measure | Figure |
|---|---|
| Total population, 2020 | 37,596 |
| Black residents (alone), 2020 | 5,408 |
| Black share of the county, 2020 | 14.4% |
| Rank by Black population among Virginia counties | 50 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 Louisa County: 5,870 Black residents in 2010, 5,408 in 2020 — declined by 7.9% over the decade, with the Black share of the whole moving from 17.7% to 14.4%.
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, Louisa County among them; it stands 50 by Black population, with 5,408 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 Louisa County, Virginia, exactly as published.
Institutions
The institutions of Black Louisa 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 Louisa County page gives the frame they stand in: 37,596 residents in all, 5,408 of them Black, and the county's direction across the last two censuses.