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Mecklenburg County, Virginia

10,435 Black residents · 34.4% of the county · ranked 26 of 133 in Virginia by Black population

The gazetteer enters Mecklenburg County, Virginia, on its published figures: a total population of 30,319 in 2020, with 10,435 Black residents counted alone — 34.4% 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	30,319
Black residents (alone), 2020	10,435
Black share of the county, 2020	34.4%
Rank by Black population among Virginia counties	26 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 Mecklenburg County: 12,050 Black residents in 2010, 10,435 in 2020 — declined by 13.4% over the decade, with the Black share of the whole moving from 36.8% to 34.4%.

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

Mecklenburg 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 Mecklenburg County's 10,435 of them give it rank 26 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 Mecklenburg County are the published redistricting counts, reproduced as released.

Institutions

For the institutions of Black Mecklenburg 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 Mecklenburg County page is their frame: 30,319 residents, 10,435 of them Black, and the movement of the last two censuses.