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Richmond city, Virginia
91,653 Black residents · 40.4% of the county · ranked 5 of 133 in Virginia by Black population
Richmond city is a Virginia county entry in the gazetteer's first edition. In the 2020 Census, Richmond city held 226,610 residents in all, of whom 91,653 — 40.4% — were Black alone, the count this gazetteer records for every place on the same terms.
Civic Snapshot
| Measure | Figure |
|---|---|
| Total population, 2020 | 226,610 |
| Black residents (alone), 2020 | 91,653 |
| Black share of the county, 2020 | 40.4% |
| Rank by Black population among Virginia counties | 5 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 Richmond city: 103,342 Black residents in 2010 and 91,653 in 2020. The population declined by 11.3%, and the Black share in Richmond city moved from 50.6% to 40.4%.
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
Richmond city is one of 133 counties and county equivalents the Census Bureau counts in Virginia. Together they hold the state's 1.6 million Black residents, and Richmond city's 91,653 of them give it rank 5 of 133 in that order. The county is the gazetteer's middle geography — larger than the places inside it, smaller than the state frame — and the figures printed here for Richmond city are the published redistricting counts, reproduced as released.
Institutions
The institutions of Black Richmond city, 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 Richmond city page gives the frame they stand in: 226,610 residents in all, 91,653 of them Black, and the county's direction across the last two censuses.