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Highland Springs, Virginia
11,575 Black residents · 69.7% of the place
Highland Springs is a census-designated place in Virginia, entered in this gazetteer on its published 2020 figures: 16,604 residents in all, 11,575 of them Black alone — 69.7% of the place.
Civic Snapshot
| Measure | Figure |
|---|---|
| Total population, 2020 | 16,604 |
| Black residents (alone), 2020 | 11,575 |
| Black share of the place, 2020 | 69.7% |
| Rank by Black population among Virginia places | 18 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 Highland Springs grew — 10,388 in 2010 and 11,575 in 2020, a change of +11.4%. The Black share of Highland Springs moved from 66.1% to 69.7% 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
Highland Springs stands in the gazetteer as one of the 672 places the Census Bureau counts in Virginia. Highland Springs's Black population of 11,575 ranks 18 among them. The figures on this page are the published redistricting counts for Highland Springs as the Bureau bounds it, reproduced as released and cited to their table.
Institutions
Highland Springs is a place of 16,604 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 Highland Springs itself: its name, its state, its people, and its share, in the same terms as every other place in the book.