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Chesapeake, Virginia
72,268 Black residents · 29.0% of the place
Chesapeake is a city in Virginia, entered in this gazetteer on its published 2020 figures: 249,422 residents in all, 72,268 of them Black alone — 29.0% of the place.
Civic Snapshot
| Measure | Figure |
|---|---|
| Total population, 2020 | 249,422 |
| Black residents (alone), 2020 | 72,268 |
| Black share of the place, 2020 | 29.0% |
| Rank by Black population among Virginia places | 5 of 672 |
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
Across the last two censuses, the Black population of Chesapeake grew — 66,237 in 2010 and 72,268 in 2020, a change of +9.1%. The Black share of Chesapeake moved from 29.8% to 29.0% over the same span.
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
Chesapeake stands in the gazetteer as one of the 672 places the Census Bureau counts in Virginia. Chesapeake's Black population of 72,268 ranks 5 among them. The figures on this page are the published redistricting counts for Chesapeake as the Bureau bounds it, reproduced as released and cited to their table.
Institutions
Chesapeake is a place of 249,422 people, and it carries its institutions at its own scale — congregations, schools, and businesses recorded in the federal counts as counts, and in this gazetteer as part of the county and state frames above this entry. The entry's work is the fixing of Chesapeake itself: its name, its state, its people, and its share, in the same terms as every other place in the book.