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Martinsville city, Virginia

6,094 Black residents · 45.2% of the county · ranked 43 of 133 in Virginia by Black population

Martinsville city is a Virginia county entry in the gazetteer's first edition. In the 2020 Census, Martinsville city held 13,485 residents in all, of whom 6,094 — 45.2% — were Black alone, the count this gazetteer records for every place on the same terms.

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	13,485
Black residents (alone), 2020	6,094
Black share of the county, 2020	45.2%
Rank by Black population among Virginia counties	43 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 two-census record for Martinsville city: 6,213 Black residents in 2010 and 6,094 in 2020. The population declined by 1.9%, and the Black share in Martinsville city moved from 45.0% to 45.2%.

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

Within Virginia, the Census Bureau counts 133 counties and county equivalents, Martinsville city among them; it stands 43 by Black population, with 6,094 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 Martinsville city, Virginia, exactly as published.

Institutions

The institutions of Black Martinsville city, 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 Martinsville city page gives the frame they stand in: 13,485 residents in all, 6,094 of them Black, and the county's direction across the last two censuses.