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Lakeside is an unincorporated census-designated place (CDP) in Henrico County, Virginia, an inner suburb just north of the city of Richmond.

The population of Lakeside was 12,203 at the 2020 census, up slightly from 11,849 at the 2010 census.

The 2020 census counted 5,440 households and 5,754 housing units in Lakeside, with a median resident age of 38.2 years.

Lakeside was first listed as an unincorporated community in the 1970 U.S. census and as a census-designated place in the 1980 census.

The CDP covers about 4.4 square miles in the Richmond suburbs and uses ZIP code 23228 and area code 804.

The community grew up around the Lakeside developments of Richmond tobacco magnate and philanthropist Lewis Ginter, who dammed a stream to create Lakeside Lake and built a trolley line out from the city in the 1890s.

In 1896 Ginter opened Lakeside Park beside the lake, with a small zoo and Richmond's first professional nine-hole golf course; the grounds are now the private Jefferson Lakeside Country Club, and the granite base of the old bear pit still survives there.

Lakeside Avenue is home to Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden at 1800 Lakeside Avenue, established in 1984 by botanists, horticulturists and citizens carrying out the will of Ginter's niece, Grace Arents.

The garden's historic Bloemendaal House was built by Lewis Ginter in 1895 as the clubhouse of the Lakeside Wheel Club, a cycling club from the 1890s bicycle craze; Grace Arents later renamed it Bloemendaal, Dutch for 'valley of flowers,' after her family's ancestral village.

Grace Arents left the property to the City of Richmond on the condition that it become a botanical garden honoring Lewis Ginter, and after her companion Mary Garland Smith died in 1968 the city took possession and the garden was eventually developed there.