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Spotsylvania County, Virginia
22,933 Black residents · 16.4% of the county · ranked 18 of 133 in Virginia by Black population
Spotsylvania County is a Virginia county entry in the gazetteer's first edition. In the 2020 Census, Spotsylvania County held 140,032 residents in all, of whom 22,933 — 16.4% — were Black alone, the count this gazetteer records for every place on the same terms.
Civic Snapshot
| Measure | Figure |
|---|---|
| Total population, 2020 | 140,032 |
| Black residents (alone), 2020 | 22,933 |
| Black share of the county, 2020 | 16.4% |
| Rank by Black population among Virginia counties | 18 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 Spotsylvania County: 18,671 Black residents in 2010 and 22,933 in 2020. The population grew by 22.8%, and the Black share in Spotsylvania County moved from 15.3% to 16.4%.
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
Within Virginia, the Census Bureau counts 133 counties and county equivalents, Spotsylvania County among them; it stands 18 by Black population, with 22,933 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 Spotsylvania County, Virginia, exactly as published.
Institutions
Black Spotsylvania County's institutions live at the scale of its towns and communities, and the gazetteer records them there, place by place. The Spotsylvania County page holds the frame around them — 140,032 people in all, 22,933 of them Black — and the trend that runs through both censuses.