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Virginia Beach, Virginia
85,478 Black residents · 18.6% of the place
Virginia Beach is a city in Virginia, entered in this gazetteer on its published 2020 figures: 459,470 residents in all, 85,478 of them Black alone — 18.6% of the place.
Civic Snapshot
| Measure | Figure |
|---|---|
| Total population, 2020 | 459,470 |
| Black residents (alone), 2020 | 85,478 |
| Black share of the place, 2020 | 18.6% |
| Rank by Black population among Virginia places | 3 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 Virginia Beach declined — 85,935 in 2010 and 85,478 in 2020, a change of -0.5%. The Black share of Virginia Beach moved from 19.6% to 18.6% 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
The gazetteer enters Virginia Beach among Virginia's 672 counted places, at rank 3 by Black population on a count of 85,478. The figures for Virginia Beach are the Bureau's published redistricting counts for the place as bounded, reproduced without adjustment.
Institutions
Virginia Beach is a place of 459,470 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 Virginia Beach itself: its name, its state, its people, and its share, in the same terms as every other place in the book.