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Roanoke County, Virginia

5,764 Black residents · 5.9% of the county · ranked 47 of 133 in Virginia by Black population

Roanoke County is a Virginia county entry in the gazetteer's first edition. In the 2020 Census, Roanoke County held 96,929 residents in all, of whom 5,764 — 5.9% — were Black alone, the count this gazetteer records for every place on the same terms.

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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, 202096,929
Black residents (alone), 20205,764
Black share of the county, 20205.9%
Rank by Black population among Virginia counties47 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 Roanoke County: 4,643 Black residents in 2010 and 5,764 in 2020. The population grew by 24.1%, and the Black share in Roanoke County moved from 5.0% to 5.9%.

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

Roanoke County 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 Roanoke County's 5,764 of them give it rank 47 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 Roanoke County are the published redistricting counts, reproduced as released.

Institutions

The institutions of Black Roanoke 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 Roanoke County page gives the frame they stand in: 96,929 residents in all, 5,764 of them Black, and the county's direction across the last two censuses.