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Prince George County, Virginia
12,968 Black residents · 30.2% of the county · ranked 22 of 133 in Virginia by Black population
Prince George County is a Virginia county entry in the gazetteer's first edition. In the 2020 Census, Prince George County held 43,010 residents in all, of whom 12,968 — 30.2% — were Black alone, the count this gazetteer records for every place on the same terms.
Civic Snapshot
| Measure | Figure |
|---|---|
| Total population, 2020 | 43,010 |
| Black residents (alone), 2020 | 12,968 |
| Black share of the county, 2020 | 30.2% |
| Rank by Black population among Virginia counties | 22 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 Prince George County: 11,429 Black residents in 2010 and 12,968 in 2020. The population grew by 13.5%, and the Black share in Prince George County moved from 32.0% to 30.2%.
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, Prince George County among them; it stands 22 by Black population, with 12,968 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 Prince George County, Virginia, exactly as published.
Institutions
The institutions of Black Prince George County, 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 Prince George County page gives the frame they stand in: 43,010 residents in all, 12,968 of them Black, and the county's direction across the last two censuses.