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South Hampton Roads is a region located in the extreme southeastern portion of Virginia's Tidewater region in the United States with a total population of 1,177,742 [a] as of 2020. It is part of the Virginia Beach-Norfolk-Newport News, VA-NC MSA ( Metropolitan Statistical Area ), which itself has a population of 1,780,059 as of 2020.
The Hampton Roads area has the highest percentage of Puerto Ricans of any metropolitan area in the Southern US outside Florida, and also has a sizable Filipino population with about 45,000 in the area, many of whom have ties to the U.S. Navy. [36] As of 2005, 6.1% of Virginians are Hispanic and 5.2% are Asian. [5]
The term "Hampton Roads" is a centuries-old designation that originated when the region was a struggling English outpost nearly four hundred years ago.. The word "Hampton" honors one of the founders of the Virginia Company of London and a great supporter of the colonization of Virginia, Henry Wriothesley, 3rd Earl of Southampton.
The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) has designated more than 1,000 statistical areas for the United States and Puerto Rico. [2] These statistical areas are important geographic delineations of population clusters used by the OMB, the United States Census Bureau, planning organizations, and federal, state, and local government entities.
Smithfield is a town in Isle of Wight County, in the South Hampton Roads subregion of the Hampton Roads region of Virginia in the United States. The population was 8,533 at the 2020 census. The town is most famous for the curing and production of the Smithfield ham.
Suffolk grew by 2.3% between July 2021 and July 2022, reporting a population of 98,537, according to Census data. By contrast, Portsmouth’s population hit 97,029, which is down .6% over the same ...
South Hampton Roads got the highest snow accumulation in the state with about 4 to 8 inches blanketing the area overnight Friday; as a result, locals should watch out for freezing fog and refrozen ...
New Kent County is a county in the south eastern part the Commonwealth of Virginia. As of the 2020 United States Census, its population was 22,945. [1] Its county seat is New Kent. [2] New Kent County is located east of the Greater Richmond Region and is part of the Richmond and the Hampton Roads Metropolitan Statistical Area.