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Southampton County, Virginia

5,924 Black residents · 32.9% of the county · ranked 44 of 133 in Virginia by Black population

In Southampton County, Virginia, the 2020 Census counted 17,996 people, 5,924 of them Black alone. At 32.9%, Southampton 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, 202017,996
Black residents (alone), 20205,924
Black share of the county, 202032.9%
Rank by Black population among Virginia counties44 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 Southampton County counted 6,916 Black residents; in 2020 it counted 5,924. The population declined by 14.3% across the decade, and the Black share in Southampton County moved from 37.2% to 32.9%.

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

Southampton 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 Southampton County's 5,924 of them give it rank 44 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 Southampton County are the published redistricting counts, reproduced as released.

Institutions

For the institutions of Black Southampton County — its congregations, schools, and civic life — this gazetteer points to the place entries inside the county's borders, where each town and community is entered on its own count. The Southampton County page is their frame: 17,996 residents, 5,924 of them Black, and the movement of the last two censuses.