Campbell County, VA

County Profile

55,312 residents. Safety, jobs, income, housing cost, climate and natural-hazard risk for Campbell County, VA.

Several figures AreaProfile publishes are measured by county and nowhere finer — death rates by intent among them. On this page those describe the geography they are printed on, which is not true of the city and ZIP pages that inherit them.

65out of 100
Area Score
Top 38% of 1,225 profiles measured

How we calculate this

How this area ranks
Opportunity705th of 1,255 counties measured53
SchoolsTop 37% of 973 counties measured61
Growth1031st of 1,226 counties measured31
Housing affordabilityTop 32% of 1,255 counties measured98
ClimateTop 24% of 1,254 counties measured75
Physical resilienceTop 17% of 1,255 counties measured84
Access1163rd of 1,255 counties measured46
Economic stabilityTop 48% of 1,255 counties measured63
The quick read

Unemployment is 3.9% and median household income $66,165, putting employment conditions in the middle range of published profiles.

Residential permitting has slowed: 233 units authorized over the past twelve months, 40% below the prior year.

Natural-hazard exposure is lower than in most comparable published profiles, placing Campbell County in the top 17% for physical resilience.

At a glance

Population
55,312
2024 ACS 5-Year
Median household income
$66,165
Top 47% nationally
Density
110/sq mi
503.3 sq mi of land
Median age
43.6
2024 ACS 5-Year
County
Campbell County
Virginia
Metro area
Lynchburg, VA
Nearest major airport
GSO
90 mi · Piedmont Triad Intl
Median home value
$211,600
2024 ACS 5-Year

Jobs & opportunity

Unemployment of 3.9% is lower than 62% of the 1,255 measured US locations.

Employment fell 0.3% over the past year, to 25,599 employed residents.

MetricValueCompared nationallySource period
Median household income ±$5,574$66,165Top 47%of 3,2222024 ACS 5-Year
Per capita income ±$1,299$34,966Top 50%of 3,2222024 ACS 5-Year
Poverty rate10.8%Bottom 30%of 3,2222024 ACS 5-Year
Average commute25.1 minBottom 46%of 3,2222024 ACS 5-Year
Bachelor's degree or higher26.1%Top 34%of 3,2222024 ACS 5-Year
Employment25,599Bottom 33%of 1,255June 2026
Employment change (3 years)-3.5%Bottom 11%of 1,255June 2026
Employment change (year over year)-0.3%Top 39%of 1,255June 2026
Labor force26,631Bottom 33%of 1,255June 2026
Labor force participation60.7%Top 39%of 3,2222024 ACS 5-Year
Unemployment change (year over year)0.3%Top 37%of 1,255June 2026
Unemployment rate3.9%Bottom 38%of 1,255June 2026
Unemployment rate
2021/062022/032022/122023/092024/062025/032025/102026/064.42.5
Monthly unemployment rate from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, most recent value 3.9% in June 2026. A break in the line is a month the Bureau of Labor Statistics did not publish for this area — it is left empty rather than estimated.
Median household income, successive ACS releases
202120222023202466k54k
Each point is a separate five-year estimate, most recently $66,165 in the 2024 ACS 5-Year. Consecutive releases share four years of sample, so AreaProfile shows them as a record of successive estimates and does not compute a year-over-year change from them.
Largest occupations — Lynchburg, VA
OccupationPeople employedMedian annual wage
Fast Food and Counter Workers3,280$28,220
Retail Salespersons2,950$30,570
Cashiers2,810$28,390
Registered Nurses2,200$80,450
Home Health and Personal Care Aides2,120$27,810
Stockers and Order Fillers2,080$30,960

Occupational employment and wages are published for metropolitan areas rather than for individual cities or ZIP areas, so these describe the wider labor market this location sits in. 2025 OEWS, U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.

56% of students met the state standard in mathematics and 66% in reading, across the schools here that reported results.

There are 12.2 students for every full-time teacher, fewer than in most measured places.

Public schools
15
2024-25 school year
Students per teacher
12.2
across all schools here
Math proficiency
56.1%
Top 44% in Virginia
Reading proficiency
65.7%
Top 49% in Virginia
SchoolDistrictStudentsPer teacherMathReading
Brookville HighCampbell County Public Schools1,01712.1
Rustburg HighCampbell County Public Schools83612.7
Tomahawk ElementaryCampbell County Public Schools66714.862%69%
Brookville MiddleCampbell County Public Schools64810.042%72%
Leesville Road ElementaryCampbell County Public Schools64614.773%72%
Rustburg MiddleCampbell County Public Schools62610.457%67%
Altavista HighCampbell County Public Schools60610.642%72%
Yellow Branch ElementaryCampbell County Public Schools58413.360%62%
Altavista ElementaryCampbell County Public Schools49714.258%65%
Rustburg ElementaryCampbell County Public Schools45013.260%60%
Brookneal ElementaryCampbell County Public Schools41012.454%64%
Concord ElementaryCampbell County Public Schools40614.561%63%

76.0% of students here are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. That describes the circumstances families arrive with rather than how the schools perform, which is why AreaProfile shows it and does not score it.

Public schools only, from the NCES Common Core of Data. Schools are placed by ZIP code, so this is which schools are in this place rather than which one a particular address is zoned for — district boundaries do not follow municipal ones, and enrollment zones change. Fully virtual schools are excluded: they enroll students from across the state while reporting one administrative address, and counting them here would describe a school population this place does not have. The assessment covers grades 3 through 8, so a high school shows no proficiency figure — a dash in those columns means the test was not given at that school, not that it performed badly. Proficiency is measured against Virginia’s own standard, so it compares cleanly within the state and only broadly against other states; AreaProfile therefore ranks it within state. The directory is current, while the proficiency figures are from the last school year with national coverage before the pandemic interrupted testing.

Housing & affordability

How it’s calculated →

Median rent of $891 takes 16% of median household income, below the 30% threshold at which a household is considered cost-burdened.

A median home costs 3.2 times median household income here, above the historic benchmark of about three times income.

Rent as a share of income
16.2%
Below the 30% cost-burdened threshold
Home price to income
3.2×
median home value ÷ median income
Median gross rent
$891
2024 ACS 5-Year
Median home value
$211,600
2024 ACS 5-Year
MetricValueCompared nationallySource period
Home price to income3.20Top 41%of 3,2192024 ACS 5-Year
Homeownership rate74.9%Top 48%of 3,2222024 ACS 5-Year
Housing units ±5325,533Top 29%of 3,2222024 ACS 5-Year
Median gross rent ±$44$891Top 46%of 3,2162024 ACS 5-Year
Median home value ±$9,339$211,600Top 40%of 3,2192024 ACS 5-Year
Rent as a share of income16.2%Bottom 39%of 3,2162024 ACS 5-Year
Vacancy rate12.9%Bottom 43%of 3,2222024 ACS 5-Year

Both affordability measures come from the same ACS release as the income they are compared with, so the comparison is like for like. They describe housing cost against local earnings and are not a cost-of-living index — transport, groceries, healthcare, insurance and taxes are not included, and a place can look affordable here and still be expensive to live in for reasons this does not capture.

Growth & development

How it’s calculated →
Development Momentum
31/ 100
Ranks 1031 of 1,226 published city profiles
Permitting is increasing, measured from 2022 to 2025.

An AreaProfile calculation combining permit volume per resident, its direction over one and three years, population change and employment growth. Permit volume alone is not the measure.

Population has been broadly flat since 2020, at 55,342 in 2024.

Permitting has turned upward after moving the other way the year before.

New construction is predominantly single-family: only 9% of permitted units are in buildings of five or more homes.

At 4.2 permitted units per 1,000 residents, building activity is above the median for measured US locations.

Units permitted
233
12 months ending July 2026
Per 1,000 residents
4.2
Top 36% nationally
Year over year
−40%
vs the prior twelve months
Multifamily share
9.0%
units in 5+ unit buildings
Population, annual estimates
2020202120222023202456k55k
Census Population Estimates Program, July 1 of each year. These annual estimates are designed for year-over-year comparison, unlike the ACS five-year figure shown as this profile's population.
Housing units permitted per year
2022202320242025350227
Annual totals from the Census Building Permits Survey. Permitting in 2025 was higher than 2022 (+54%).

Weather & climate

7 of the twelve months have a normal average temperature between 55°F and 80°F. July averages a high of 87°F and January a low of 26°F.

Normal annual precipitation is 42.8 inches, including 11.6 inches of snow.

10°30°50°70°90°JFMAMJJASOND
Solid line: normal daily high. Dashed line: normal daily low. 1991-2020 normals from NOAA station LYNCHBURG RGNL AP, 9.8 miles from this location.
Precipitation
JFMAMJJASOND4.2"
Normal monthly precipitation, in inches.
MetricValueSource period
Annual precipitation42.8"1991-2020 Normals
Annual snowfall11.6"1991-2020 Normals
Average January low26°F1991-2020 Normals
Average July high87°F1991-2020 Normals
Comfortable months71991-2020 Normals
Seasonal temperature swing40°F1991-2020 Normals

Climate figures are thirty-year normals, not current conditions. They describe what a typical year looks like rather than what the weather is doing today.

Physical risk

84 / 100
Physical resilience

The hazards accounting for most of this area's expected annual loss are hurricane, lightning and earthquake.

LightningModerate
HurricaneModerate
EarthquakeModerate
LandslideModerate
DroughtModerate
Cold waveModerate

Low or minimal exposure: strong wind, winter weather, inland flooding, ice storm, wildfire, heat wave, hail, tornado.

Hazard ratings are AreaProfile calculations derived from the FEMA National Risk Index v1.20.0 (December 2025). FEMA National Risk Index county record. FEMA does not endorse this presentation. Higher physical resilience means lower exposure.

These are deaths, not offences. AreaProfile does not publish reported crime, and this is not a substitute for it — it says nothing about burglary, theft or assault.

Campbell County records 4.4 homicide deaths per 100,000 residents a year, near the middle of counties measured. The CDC does not publish this below county level.

Firearm deaths of all intents run at 19.9 per 100,000 — more than the homicide rate, because nationally most firearm deaths are suicides.

Drug overdose deaths run at 12.6 per 100,000 residents in Campbell County.

Homicide
4.4
per 100,000 residents · under 10 deaths
Firearm deaths, all intents
19.9
per 100,000 residents
Drug overdose
12.6
per 100,000 residents · under 10 deaths
Suicide
23.5
per 100,000 residents

Firearm deaths count every intent together, and nationally the majority are suicides rather than homicides. The two columns overlap and should not be added.

Age-adjusted rates from provisional death certificate records, published by the CDC for Campbell County as a whole — these rates are not published below county level. A county can hold both a dense city centre and a suburb whose experience of it is nothing alike, so this describes the county around Campbell County rather than Campbell County itself. That is why AreaProfile shows these figures and does not put them in the Area Score. Where fewer than ten deaths were recorded the count is suppressed at source, and a rate built on single figures moves sharply between releases. What this measure has that reported crime does not: a death certificate is filed whether or not the local police agency submitted a return that year, so the figures stay comparable between places and over time.

What this profile does not cover

Three things people look for are missing from every AreaProfile page, and each is missing for a reason rather than by oversight. The Area Score is calculated without them and the weighting is documented on the methodology page.

Reported crime
Offences reported to police are published by department rather than by town, and only where a department reported every month of the year. No municipal department reports for this place — many smaller communities are policed by the county — so there is no figure to show. A partial year is never scaled up to look complete, and arrest counts or news volume are never substituted for it.
Taxes and full cost of living
No public source publishes either with national coverage and a method open enough to check. Housing affordability above is computed from published rent, price and income, and excludes transport, groceries, healthcare, insurance and taxes — commuting cost in particular tends to offset suburban housing savings. Nothing here is individualised tax advice.
Anything about a specific address
Every figure describes an area, not a street or a house. School attendance zones, insurance pricing and the character of a neighbourhood all vary within the places measured here.

Access

3 major airports lie within 100 miles, the nearest 90 miles away.

AirportCodeDistanceLongest runway
Piedmont Triad IntlGSO90 mi10,001 ft
Raleigh-Durham IntlRDU94 mi10,000 ft
Richmond IntlRIC100 mi9,003 ft

Airport identity, position and runway data come from the FAA. “Major airport” is an AreaProfile classification — a public-use civil airport with a paved runway of at least 8,000 feet — not an FAA hub designation. Distances are straight-line, not driving distance.

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Data & methodology

Used forSourceSource periodUpdated
AccessFederal Aviation Administration
Airports (NASR) — Aeronautical Data Delivery Service
NASR current cycle28-day NASR cycle
Physical riskFederal Emergency Management Agency
National Risk Index
National Risk Index December 2025 (v1.20.0)Periodic dataset versions (v1.20.0 current)
ClimateNOAA National Centers for Environmental Information
U.S. Climate Normals 1991–2020 (Monthly)
1991-2020 NormalsEvery ten years (next release follows the 2001–2030 period)
JobsU.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
Local Area Unemployment Statistics
June 2026Monthly
DemographicsU.S. Census Bureau
Population Estimates Program
July 1, 2024 estimateAnnual (vintage released each spring)
DevelopmentU.S. Census Bureau
Building Permits Survey
12 months ending July 2026Monthly, roughly three weeks after the reference month
Demographics, Housing, Income, JobsU.S. Census Bureau
American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates (Table-Based Summary File)
2024 ACS 5-YearAnnual (5-year estimates released each December)
safetyU.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Health Statistics
Provisional county-level mortality by intent
April, 2025 to March, 2026Quarterly, with a rolling twelve-month window alongside complete calendar years
schoolsU.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics
Common Core of Data and EDFacts assessments
2019-20 school year; 2024-25 school yearDirectory annually; assessment results as EDFacts releases them

Profile recalculated August 30, 2026. Recalculation is not the same as new source data — each figure above shows the period its source actually covers. Read the full methodology or browse every source.

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