Virginia Population Trends

Baby boomers known as “halfbacks” transform southern Appalachia.

The University of Virginia’s Weldon Cooper Center is projecting a 7% uptick in enrollment for Surry County Public Schools over the next five years.

Paid internships within Virginia can help keep newly graduated college students from looking elsewhere and staying within the Commonwealth.

Just in case the U.S. Census Bureau isn’t reliable enough for town and county elected officials, the esteemed Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service at the University of Virginia has arrived at the same conclusion.

Some Southwest localities have become population magnets due to other areas in Virginia losing population because deaths outnumber births and net in-migration, according to the Weldon Cooper Center.

Isle of Wight County, for the second consecutive year, remains one of Virginia’s top 10 fastest-growing localities, according to the Weldon Cooper Center.

Fast-growing King William County has moved to curtail additional residential development after passing a resolution that discourages new homes.

Most communities in Virginia that are losing populations through both deaths over births and people moving out are rural, economically distressed localities. Roanoke is an outlier.

The populations of Bath and Highland have increased over the last three years, and more recently, estimates indicate Alleghany County’s population is also on the rise, according to the Weldon Cooper Center.

New Kent County has grown faster than anywhere else in Virginia since the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a new study, but the county’s popularity has pushed up the price of an average home by almost $150,000 since 2021, according to the Weldon Cooper Center.