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Prince William County, Virginia

97,457 Black residents · 20.2% of the county · ranked 3 of 133 in Virginia by Black population

In Prince William County, Virginia, the 2020 Census counted 482,204 people, 97,457 of them Black alone. At 20.2%, Prince William County's Black share stands against the state's 18.6% — the comparison this entry is built around.

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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

MeasureFigure
Total population, 2020482,204
Black residents (alone), 202097,457
Black share of the county, 202020.2%
Rank by Black population among Virginia counties3 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

In 2010 Prince William County counted 81,196 Black residents; in 2020 it counted 97,457. The population grew by 20.0% across the decade, and the Black share in Prince William County moved from 20.2% to 20.2%.

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 William County among them; it stands 3 by Black population, with 97,457 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 William County, Virginia, exactly as published.

Institutions

The institutions of Black Prince William 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 William County page gives the frame they stand in: 482,204 residents in all, 97,457 of them Black, and the county's direction across the last two censuses.