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Virginia: county data, all 133 of them.

Every Virginia county has a data page built from federal sources, each figure carrying its publisher and period. What this page does not carry is the Virginia statutory framework, and the reason is below rather than hidden.

Counties
133
Population
8,705,170
Land area
39,479 sq mi
Establishments
209,841
Combined county GDP
$428.25 bn
SBA approvals recorded
7,390

Read this first

This is a county directory, not a state guide.

The county pages below are complete. They carry demographics, growth and migration, economic output, employment and wages, business establishments by industry, the construction pipeline, the SBA lending record including charge off rates, geography and hazard. Every figure names its publisher and the period it describes.

What is missing is the Virginia legal and regulatory frame: how zoning and land development codes work in this state, what the entitlement path looks like, which agencies permit what, and which statutes override local codes. That material requires a research pack for Virginia, and no such pack exists yet.

Why there is no state guide here

You cannot write Virginia zoning law from a population table. Everything on the county pages is derived from federal datasets that cover all counties equally; statutory analysis is not, and generating it anyway would produce confident text about the law that nothing behind it supports.

Florida and California have research packs and therefore have full state guides. The remaining eight, including this one, do not. That is stated rather than papered over.

Counties

All 133 Virginia county-equivalents.

Virginia counties: population, income, establishments and SBA activity
GeographyPopulationMedian incomeEstablishmentsCounty GDPSBA approvalsLand area, sq mi
Accomack County33,335$58,993711$2.04 bn15449
Albemarle County114,919$104,3922,963109721
Alexandria city156,976$119,6814,493$18.00 bnNone recorded15
Alleghany County14,859$56,1882413445
Amelia County13,462$76,717273$394.7 m7355
Amherst County31,485$68,724553$1.10 bn22474
Appomattox County16,610$62,853319$475.6 m9333
Arlington County236,254$142,1146,334$49.08 bn22026
Augusta County78,033$82,0491,43927967
Bath County4,100$56,184127$327.0 m1529
Bedford County80,894$78,9371,818$2.75 bn44753
Bland County6,199$61,21670$283.5 m3358
Botetourt County34,004$81,213776$1.88 bn19541
Bristol city16,849$50,4045332313
Brunswick County15,841$53,084254$1.20 bn4566
Buchanan County19,415$42,886343$1.40 bn3503
Buckingham County16,976$60,828257$697.9 m5580
Buena Vista city6,593$57,833109None recorded7
Campbell County55,312$66,1651,21637504
Caroline County32,098$87,407424$1.26 bn26528
Carroll County29,157$54,48443122475
Charles City County6,627$75,417153$358.3 m7183
Charlotte County11,422$58,000220$376.5 m4475
Charlottesville city45,437$74,8242,070None recorded10
Chesapeake city252,583$95,3735,867$15.25 bnNone recorded341
Chesterfield County377,869$101,9318,257$24.00 bn343423
Clarke County15,216$117,111377$611.6 m14176
Colonial Heights city18,352$76,505630None recorded8
Covington city5,680$41,944197None recorded5
Craig County4,856$69,05764$152.0 m3330
Culpeper County54,397$100,0491,126$2.72 bn36379
Cumberland County9,818$55,325145$231.9 m2297
Danville city42,214$44,4231,227None recorded43
Dickenson County13,733$47,254184$850.5 m3331
Dinwiddie County28,191$83,7043964504
Emporia city5,547$51,89921847
Essex County10,623$56,520309$560.4 m13257
Fairfax city25,026$132,3482,0281,4196
Fairfax County1,147,837$153,63731,9311,419391
Falls Church city14,710$143,262883None recorded2
Fauquier County74,577$130,1892,015$4.15 bn84647
Floyd County15,593$62,191339$536.0 m8380
Fluvanna County28,092$96,768420$1.26 bn15286
Franklin city8,250$63,245263198
Franklin County55,130$68,8491,238$2.22 bn19690
Frederick County95,008$97,6061,69583413
Fredericksburg city28,873$86,0711,477None recorded10
Galax city6,726$38,675311None recorded8
Giles County16,557$65,691299$923.4 m8356
Gloucester County39,526$84,306868$1.36 bn19218
Goochland County26,410$118,931756$4.00 bn22281
Grayson County15,287$47,730173$398.0 m10442
Greene County21,155$89,808384$681.0 m12156
Greensville County11,275$54,6681009295
Halifax County33,639$52,013656$1.64 bn15818
Hampton city137,557$69,6212,362$9.15 bnNone recorded51
Hanover County112,879$112,8053,413$9.23 bn170469
Harrisonburg city51,392$62,2541,695None recorded17
Henrico County335,744$88,7839,754$37.56 bn378234
Henry County49,980$50,76080311382
Highland County2,296$65,62579$110.6 mNone recorded415
Hopewell city22,959$54,729396None recorded10
Isle of Wight County39,974$95,241766$1.65 bn37316
James City County81,013$109,9851,841114142
King and Queen County6,695$70,469117$218.3 m3315
King George County27,896$116,884496$2.90 bn10180
King William County18,593$86,056359$849.9 m9274
Lancaster County10,936$69,713458$679.1 m20133
Lee County21,900$41,827242$566.6 m4436
Lexington city7,525$84,517253None recorded2
Loudoun County432,998$181,76512,561$44.86 bn779516
Louisa County39,980$86,689683$3.11 bn32496
Lunenburg County12,016$54,842170$340.5 m1432
Lynchburg city79,497$57,9472,251None recorded49
Madison County14,044$84,323283$521.5 m5321
Manassas city42,976$113,5901,506None recorded10
Manassas Park city16,798$103,250337None recorded3
Martinsville city13,658$46,727511None recorded11
Mathews County8,540$75,880191$260.5 m486
Mecklenburg County30,516$57,045793$1.60 bn15625
Middlesex County10,847$75,060306$523.0 m2130
Montgomery County99,101$72,7152,01681387
Nelson County14,732$72,589372$700.3 m3471
New Kent County25,105$123,314458$1.08 bn26210
Newport News city184,216$69,6343,788$18.79 bnNone recorded69
Norfolk city233,596$66,1095,398$26.77 bnNone recorded54
Northampton County12,059$61,632327$682.1 m10212
Northumberland County12,188$66,480306$478.3 m3191
Norton city3,577$41,495191None recorded7
Nottoway County15,597$63,261299$700.6 m4314
Orange County37,822$94,008724$1.62 bn19341
Page County23,727$57,037441$892.0 m8311
Patrick County17,512$53,038266$535.0 m8483
Petersburg city33,537$50,698707None recorded23
Pittsylvania County59,856$54,08587910969
Poquoson city12,639$120,972223None recorded15
Portsmouth city97,190$60,4911,597$7.78 bnNone recorded34
Powhatan County31,555$110,537740$1.26 bn25260
Prince Edward County21,996$56,315496$995.5 m11350
Prince George County43,146$84,89746618265
Prince William County488,880$131,4029,286549336
Pulaski County33,687$62,028641$1.89 bn18320
Radford city16,726$57,348289810
Rappahannock County7,427$83,380197$389.8 m4266
Richmond city229,359$64,5876,530$35.11 bn860
Richmond County9,095$66,304195$396.2 m8191
Roanoke city98,355$55,3783,151$10.06 bn4643
Roanoke County97,023$83,7092,14546251
Rockbridge County22,531$65,46945811598
Rockingham County85,600$80,6931,64851849
Russell County25,538$50,012436$903.7 m4474
Salem city25,618$66,7259942814
Scott County21,479$46,349260$610.2 m2536
Shenandoah County44,925$67,191922$2.27 bn25509
Smyth County29,420$49,883499$1.35 bn12451
Southampton County17,964$70,7952099599
Spotsylvania County146,603$112,7382,811166401
Stafford County163,466$137,8072,570$8.35 bn169269
Staunton city25,948$65,581760None recorded20
Suffolk city98,796$92,6661,798$5.72 bnNone recorded400
Surry County6,549$78,04187$1.49 bn3279
Sussex County10,765$63,530184$439.0 m7490
Tazewell County39,624$47,313895$1.72 bn10519
Virginia Beach city456,349$92,96811,822$32.88 bnNone recorded249
Warren County41,531$84,682882$2.56 bn26213
Washington County53,926$64,5521,20765561
Waynesboro city22,841$59,994620None recorded15
Westmoreland County18,826$63,398338$666.0 m9229
Williamsburg city15,798$75,604553None recorded9
Winchester city27,913$63,9741,373None recorded9
Wise County35,448$52,9436074403
Wythe County28,188$57,745691$1.89 bn28462
York County71,005$109,9561,50361105

The register

Every source behind these 133 pages.

SourcePeriod coveredLicence
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates2020-2024 5-yearUS Census Bureau, public domain
US Census Bureau, Population Estimates Program, Vintage 2024Vintage 2024, estimates 2020 to 2024US Census Bureau, public domain
US Bureau of Economic Analysis, Regional, table CAGDP2CAGDP2, through 2024US Bureau of Economic Analysis, public domain
US EPA, Map of Radon Zones, county spreadsheet2024-05 publication, EPA 402/A-16/001US EPA, public domain
FEMA OpenFEMA, NFIP Community Status BookCommunity Status Book, as retrievedFEMA OpenFEMA, public domain
US Small Business Administration, 7(a) FOIA releaseFY2020 to FY2026 year to date, as of 2026-06-30FOIA release, public domain
US Small Business Administration, 504 FOIA releaseFY2010 to FY2026 year to date, as of 2026-06-30FOIA release, public domain
US Census Bureau county boundary geometry, TIGER, adjacency computed from shared boundary verticesTIGER county boundariesUS Census Bureau, public domain
US Census Bureau, County Business Patterns2023US Census Bureau, public domain
US Bureau of Labor Statistics, Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages2024 annual averagesUS BLS, public domain
US Census Bureau, Building Permits Survey2024 annualUS Census Bureau, public domain
US Internal Revenue Service, Statistics of Income county migration flows2021 to 2022 filing yearsIRS SOI, public domain

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