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Ancestry in Richmond, VA (2014 ... there were 204,214 people living in the city. 50.6% ... Many of Richmond's historic properties are documented in books ...
The Richmond metro area is served by many local television and radio stations. As of 2010, the Richmond-Petersburg designated market area (DMA) is the 58th largest in the U.S. with 553,950 homes according to Nielsen Market Research. [20]
By 1860 there were 58,042 free people of color (black or mulatto, as classified in the census) in Virginia. [28] Over the decades, many had gathered in the cities of Richmond and Petersburg where there were more job opportunities. Others were landowners who had working farms, or found acceptance from neighbors in the frontier areas of Virginia.
As of the 2006–2008 American Community Survey, the three most educated places with 200,000 people or more in Washington–Arlington–Alexandria by bachelor's degree attainment (population 25 and over) are Arlington, Virginia (68.0%), Fairfax County, Virginia (58.8%), and Montgomery County, Maryland (56.4%). [35]
Many towns are as large as cities but are not incorporated as cities and are situated within a parent county or counties. Seven independent cities had 2020 populations of less than 10,000 with the smallest, Norton having a population of only 3,687. [2] In 2020, the largest towns were Leesburg (with 48,250 people) and Blacksburg (44,826).
Henrico County / h ɛ n ˈ r aɪ k oʊ /, officially the County of Henrico, is a county located in the Commonwealth of Virginia in the United States. As of the 2020 census, the population was 334,389 [3] making it the fifth-most populous county in Virginia.
Richmond is often subdivided into North Side, Southside, East End and West End. The Greater Richmond area extends beyond the city limits into nearby counties. Descriptions of Richmond often describe the large area as falling into one of the four primarily geographic references which somewhat mirror the points of a compass: North Side, Southside, East End and West End.
Midlothian (/ m ɪ d ˈ l oʊ θ i ə n / mid-LOH-thee-ən) is an unincorporated area and census-designated place in Chesterfield County, Virginia, U.S. Settled as a coal town, Midlothian village experienced suburbanization effects and is now part of the western suburbs of Richmond, Virginia south of the James River in the Greater Richmond Region. [4]