Fluvanna County, VA

County Profile

28,092 residents. Safety, jobs, income, housing cost, climate and natural-hazard risk for Fluvanna County, VA.

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71out of 100
Area Score
Top 11% of 1,453 profiles measured

How we calculate this

How this area ranks

Data updated · 13 sources
OpportunityTop 4% of 1,463 counties measured83
SchoolsTop 38% of 1,377 counties measured58
GrowthTop 25% of 1,453 counties measured64
Housing affordabilityTop 22% of 1,462 counties measured80
ClimateTop 18% of 1,463 counties measured76
Physical resilienceTop 44% of 1,463 counties measured64
Access1,154th of 1,463 counties measured64
Economic stabilityTop 34% of 1,463 counties measured71
The quick read

Fluvanna County ranks in the top 4% of counties measured for employment opportunity, with unemployment at 3.3% and median household income of $96,768.

In the public schools here, 84% of students met the state standard in mathematics, with 13.9 students for every teacher.

182 housing units were authorized over the past twelve months, within 1% of the prior year — steady rather than turning.

These sentences are written by fixed rules from the measurements below — a statement appears because a number crossed a stated threshold, and the values behind it are stored with it. No figure anywhere on this site is invented, estimated or inferred to fill a gap. How this works.

At a glance

Population
28,092
2024 ACS 5-Year
Median household income
$96,768
Top 6% nationally
Density
98/sq mi
287.1 sq mi of land
Median age
43.5
2024 ACS 5-Year
County
Fluvanna County
Virginia
Nearest major airport
RIC
57 mi · Richmond Intl
Median home value
$314,100
2024 ACS 5-Year

Jobs & opportunity

Unemployment of 3.3%, lower than in 81% of the 1,467 measured US counties.

Employment grew 1.6% over the past year, to 14,382 employed residents.

37% of adults hold a four-year degree, higher than 89% of measured US counties.

Median household income of $96,768 is higher than in 94% of measured US counties.

MetricValueCompared nationallySource period
Income of new arrivalsfiling years 2022–2023$77,42381st percentileof 1,417filing years 2022–2023
Income of those who leftfiling years 2022–2023$65,17768th percentileof 1,417filing years 2022–2023
Median household income ±$6,3952024 ACS 5-Year$96,768Top 6%of 3,2212024 ACS 5-Year
Per capita income ±$3,0292024 ACS 5-Year$44,367Top 14%of 3,2222024 ACS 5-Year
Per-capita personal income2023$57,510Top 44%of 1,3892023
Poverty rate ±2%2024 ACS 5-Year7.6%Top 11%of 3,2222024 ACS 5-Year
Average commute ±1.7 min2024 ACS 5-Year34.2 minBottom 9%of 3,2222024 ACS 5-Year
Bachelor's degree or higher ±3%2024 ACS 5-Year37.3%Top 11%of 3,2222024 ACS 5-Year
Drove alone to work ±4%2024 ACS 5-Year69.0%12th percentileof 3,2222024 ACS 5-Year
EmploymentJuly 202614,382Bottom 19%of 1,467July 2026
Employment change (3 years)July 2026+1.1%Top 37%of 1,467July 2026
Employment change (year over year)July 2026+1.6%Top 15%of 1,467July 2026
Labor forceJuly 202614,86719th percentileof 1,467July 2026
Labor force participation ±3%2024 ACS 5-Year76.2%Top 47%of 3,2222024 ACS 5-Year
Public transit to work ±0.2%2024 ACS 5-Year0.1%42nd percentileof 3,2222024 ACS 5-Year
Unemployment change (year over year)July 2026+0.3%Bottom 24%of 1,467July 2026
Unemployment rateJuly 20263.3%Top 19%of 1,467July 2026
Worked from home ±2%2024 ACS 5-Year16.5%91st percentileof 3,2222024 ACS 5-Year

Unemployment rate

2021/072022/072023/072024/072025/072026/073.62.0
Monthly unemployment rate from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, most recent value 3.3% in July 2026. It has been falling, over a series running from 2020-01 to 2026-07. 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

202120222023202497k83k
Each point is a separate five-year estimate, most recently $96,768 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 — Charlottesville, VA

OccupationPeople employedMedian annual wage
Registered Nurses3,040$99,320
Fast Food and Counter Workers2,800$30,150
Retail Salespersons2,540$34,210
General and Operations Managers2,530$107,200
Waiters and Waitresses2,140$44,030
Cashiers2,110$30,930

Searches the 40 largest occupations here that have a published wage.

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.

84% of students met the state standard in mathematics and 77% in reading, across the schools here that reported results.

There are 13.9 students for every full-time teacher across 4 public schools, fewer than in most measured places.

Public schools
6
2024-25 school year
Students per teacher
13.9
across 4 of them
Math proficiency
84.2%
Top 33% in Virginia
Reading proficiency
77.4%
Bottom 44% in Virginia
All 6 public schools on record, largest first.
SchoolDistrictStudentsPer teacherMathReading
Fluvanna County HighFluvanna County Public Schools1,36214.284%81%
Central ElementaryFluvanna County Public Schools75114.2——
Fluvanna MiddleFluvanna County Public Schools74513.184%74%
Carysbrook ElementaryFluvanna County Public Schools45714.385%72%
Blue Ridge Governor's SchoolBlue Ridge Governor's School0———
Project Return/Fluvanna CoProject Return/Fluvanna Co0———

60.6% of students here are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. That describes the circumstances families arrive with, not how the schools perform, so it is shown and not scored.

Public schools only, from the NCES Common Core of Data, placed by ZIP code — which schools are in this place, not which one a particular address is zoned for. A dash in a proficiency column is a gap in the federal file, not a bad result. Proficiency is measured against Virginia’s own standard, so it is ranked within state. How to read school figures.

Prices for everything a household buys run about 1% below the national average — the Bureau of Economic Analysis index reads 99.0, against 100 for the nation. Nationally, housing drives most of the spread between places in this index; other goods vary far less.

The Federal Housing Finance Agency’s house price index for the Charlottesville, VA Metro Area is up 47% over five years, and up 3.0% over the last year. It follows repeat sales of the same homes, so it measures price change rather than which homes happened to sell.

Homeowners here who pay a tax bill pay a median of $1,967 a year in real estate taxes, about 0.63% of the median home value.

HUD’s Fair Market Rent for a two-bedroom, set near the 40th percentile of recent new leases, is $1,824, some 51% above the $1,204 tenants already here pay.

At HUD’s Fair Market Rent of $1,824 a month for a two-bedroom, keeping rent to 30% of income takes a household income of about $73,000 a year, about 75% of the median household income here of $96,768.

The typical renter household here spends 26% of its income on rent, below the 30% threshold at which a household is considered cost-burdened. Median gross rent runs $1,204 a month.

A median home at $314,100 costs 3.1 times the median income of its owner-occupied households, $101,477, above the historic benchmark of about 3 times income.

Cost of living
99.0

Prices here run about 1% below the national average. The spread between places is driven mostly by housing — goods vary far less — and this excludes taxes.

Published for the Charlottesville, VA Metro Area as a whole. Prices are regional — people shop, commute and rent across a metropolitan area rather than within a city boundary — so this describes the cost of living around this place better than a figure drawn to its own limits would.

Rent as a share of income
26.3%
Below the 30% cost-burdened threshold
Home price to income
3.1×
median home value ÷ owner household income
Market rent, two bedroom
$1,824
what a new lease costs · FY2026
Median gross rent
$1,204
what tenants now pay · 2024 ACS 5-Year
Median home value
$314,100
2024 ACS 5-Year

The figures above are measured against Fluvanna County’s median household income of $96,768, which describes the place rather than you. Enter your own and the ratio is recomputed against it. It stays in this browser.

MetricValueCompared nationallySource period
Cost of living indexthe Charlottesville, VA Metro Area’s figure202399.0Bottom 30%of 8872023
Home price change (1 year)the Charlottesville, VA Metro Area’s figure2026 Q2+3.0%37th percentileof 1,4312026 Q2
Home price change (5 years)the Charlottesville, VA Metro Area’s figure2026 Q2+46.9%61st percentileof 1,4312026 Q2
Home price change (10 years)the Charlottesville, VA Metro Area’s figure2026 Q2+86.2%34th percentileof 1,4312026 Q2
Home price to income ±0.32024 ACS 5-Year3.1Bottom 27%of 3,2172024 ACS 5-Year
Homeownership rate ±3%2024 ACS 5-Year88.7%99th percentileof 3,2212024 ACS 5-Year
Housing units ±442024 ACS 5-Year11,49547th percentileof 3,2212024 ACS 5-Year
Market rent, one bedroomFY2026$1,602Bottom 10%of 1,423FY2026
Market rent, three bedroomFY2026$2,218Bottom 16%of 1,423FY2026
Market rent, two bedroomFY2026$1,824Bottom 10%of 1,423FY2026
Median gross rent ±$1592024 ACS 5-Year$1,204Bottom 17%of 3,2152024 ACS 5-Year
Median home value ±$17,2312024 ACS 5-Year$314,10083rd percentileof 3,2192024 ACS 5-Year
Median property taxes ±$1532024 ACS 5-Year$1,96764th percentileof 3,1722024 ACS 5-Year
Owner household income ±$6,1832024 ACS 5-Year$101,477Top 12%of 3,2182024 ACS 5-Year
Property tax rate ±0.06%2024 ACS 5-Year0.63%32nd percentileof 3,1262024 ACS 5-Year
Rent as a share of income ±5%2024 ACS 5-Year26.3%Top 35%of 3,2162024 ACS 5-Year
Seasonal and second homes ±1522024 ACS 5-Year34349th percentileof 3,2222024 ACS 5-Year
Second homes2024 ACS 5-Year3.0%52nd percentileof 3,2222024 ACS 5-Year
Vacancy rate2024 ACS 5-Year7.2%34th percentileof 3,2212024 ACS 5-Year
Vacant housing units ±2952024 ACS 5-Year1,16636th percentileof 3,2222024 ACS 5-Year

These measures come from the same ACS release as the income they are compared with. They compare housing cost with local earnings only: transport, groceries, healthcare, insurance and taxes are not in them. How to read affordability, the two rent figures and the cost-of-living index.

Development Momentum

64/ 100
Top 25% of 1,453 published county profiles
Permitting has been rising for the last 2 years of a series running from 2022 to 2025. That is the direction of the recent run. The chart below compares the first year with the last, which can point the other way.

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 grown 5% since 2020, reaching 28,746 in 2024.

Population is still rising but the pace is easing: 28,746 residents in 2024, up 0.9% over the year, a smaller gain than the year before.

New construction is predominantly single-family: of 182 units permitted over the past twelve months, none were in buildings of five or more homes.

Federal tax returns show Fluvanna County gained about 0.4% of its residents through moves within the US in the most recent year, counting those who arrived against those who left. Households that moved in reported an average income of $77,423, above the $65,177 of households that moved out.

At 6.5 permitted units per 1,000 residents, building activity is above the median for measured US counties.

Units permitted
182
12 months ending July 2026
Per 1,000 residents
6.5
Top 19% nationally
Year over year
−1%
vs the prior twelve months
Multifamily share
0.0%
units in 5+ unit buildings

Population, annual estimates

2020202120222023202429k27k
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. It has been rising for the last 4 years, over a series running from 2020 to 2024.

People moving in and out

Net migration
+0.4%
of residents, in a year
Arrivals from another state
27%
of people moving in
Income of arrivals
$77,423
average per tax return
Income of those who left
$65,177
average per tax return

Where newcomers came from

  1. Albemarle County, VA 431 people · 25% of arrivals
  2. Charlottesville city, VA 132 people · 7.7% of arrivals
  3. Louisa County, VA 108 people · 6.3% of arrivals
  4. Chesterfield County, VA 45 people · 2.6% of arrivals
  5. Buckingham County, VA 39 people · 2.3% of arrivals

Where people who left went

  1. Albemarle County, VA 310 people · 19% of departures
  2. Louisa County, VA 198 people · 12% of departures
  3. Charlottesville city, VA 79 people · 4.9% of departures
  4. Henrico County, VA 51 people · 3.1% of departures
  5. Buckingham County, VA 47 people · 2.9% of departures

Based on the address on federal tax returns, compared with the same filers a year earlier. It counts people who file, and sees a move only when the address on a return changes. Domestic moves only: people arriving from abroad are left out. IRS Statistics of Income, filing years 2022–2023.

Housing units permitted per year

2022202320242025289102
Annual totals from the Census Building Permits Survey. Permitting in 2025 was lower than 2022 (−35%).

Weather & climate

7 of the twelve months have a normal average temperature between 55°F and 80°F. July averages a high of 84°F and January a low of 28°F.

Normal annual precipitation is 48.2 inches.

20°40°60°80°JFMAMJJASOND
Solid line: normal daily high. Dashed line: normal daily low. 1991-2020 normals from NOAA station CHARLOTTESVILLE 2 SSE, 15.2 miles from this location.

Precipitation

JFMAMJJASOND4.9"
Normal monthly precipitation, in inches.
MetricValueSource period
Annual precipitation1991-2020 Normals48.2"1991-2020 Normals
Average January low1991-2020 Normals28°F1991-2020 Normals
Average July high1991-2020 Normals84°F1991-2020 Normals
Comfortable months1991-2020 Normals71991-2020 Normals
Seasonal temperature swing1991-2020 Normals40°F1991-2020 Normals

Climate figures are thirty-year normals, not current conditions. How to read climate and air quality.

Physical risk

64 / 100
Physical resilience

The hazards accounting for most of this area's expected annual loss are inland flooding, earthquake and hurricane, with inland flooding alone responsible for 54% of it. Inland flooding is independently rated low or minimal nationally, so this describes how the loss is composed, not how large that hazard is.

HurricaneElevated
EarthquakeHigh
DroughtHigh
Cold waveModerate

Low or minimal exposure: landslide, strong wind, heat wave, lightning, inland flooding, tornado, ice storm, hail, wildfire, winter weather, tsunami, volcanic activity, coastal flooding, avalanche.

Hazard ratings are AreaProfile calculations derived from the FEMA National Risk Index v1.20.0 (December 2025). These are FEMA’s own figures for this county rather than a value derived from surrounding geographies. FEMA does not endorse this presentation. Higher physical resilience means lower exposure.

These are deaths, not offenses — they say nothing about burglary, theft or assault.

Fluvanna County has a modeled homicide rate of about 3.9 per 100,000 residents a year, because the CDC suppresses counts this small, near the middle of counties measured. The CDC does not publish this below county level.

Firearm deaths of all intents run at about 11.7 per 100,000 — more than the homicide rate, since the figure counts suicides and accidents as well as homicides.

Drug overdose deaths run at about 13.0 per 100,000 residents in Fluvanna County.

Homicide
3.9
per 100,000 residents · modeled, not measured
Firearm deaths, all intents
11.7
per 100,000 residents · modeled, not measured
Drug overdose
13.0
per 100,000 residents · modeled, not measured
Suicide
12.0
per 100,000 residents · modeled, not measured

Firearm deaths count every intent together, and nationally the majority are suicides rather than homicides, so the firearm figure and the homicide figure above it count some of the same deaths twice over. They overlap and should not be added together.

Death rates are crude rates — deaths divided by population, not adjusted for age — except where a count was too small for the CDC to publish and it modeled the rate, which the card marks. They come from provisional death certificate records, published by the CDC by county and not below it. So they describe Fluvanna County as a whole. They are shown and not scored. How to read death rates.

What this profile does not cover

Each of these is absent for a reason, not by oversight. The Area Score is calculated without them; the weighting is on the methodology page.

Reported crime
Offenses reported to police are published by department rather than by town, so AreaProfile shows a rate only on city profiles, and only where that city’s department submitted every month of a year. City profiles inside this area carry their own figure where their department reported a full year. A partial year is never scaled up to look complete, and arrest counts or news volume are never substituted for it.
Air quality
The EPA publishes an air-quality index only where a monitor sits. There is none in this county, and a modeled value would be a different kind of number from the measured ones everywhere else on this page.
Taxes
Income and sales taxes are not published: no source covers them nationally with a method open enough to check. Property taxes are shown in the housing section but are not part of the score. The cost-of-living index above is a price level for all consumption, not a household budget, and it excludes taxes. Nothing here is individualized tax advice.
Anything about a specific address
Every figure describes an area, not a street or a house.

Access

2 major airports lie within 100 miles, the nearest Richmond Intl at 57 miles.

MetricValueCompared nationallySource period
Broadband access ±3%2024 ACS 5-Year93.8%Top 5%of 3,2212024 ACS 5-Year
Distance to major airportNASR current cycle57 miBottom 24%of 1,463NASR current cycle
Major airports within 100 milesNASR current cycle2Bottom 15%of 1,463NASR current cycle
No internet access ±1%2024 ACS 5-Year4.0%Top 5%of 3,2212024 ACS 5-Year
AirportCodeDistanceLongest runway
Richmond IntlRIC57 mi9,003 ft
Washington Dulles IntlIAD89 mi11,500 ft
Newport News/Williamsburg IntlPHF109 mi8,003 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 period
AccessFederal Aviation Administration
Airports (NASR) — Aeronautical Data Delivery Service
NASR current cycle
Physical riskFederal Emergency Management Agency
National Risk Index
National Risk Index December 2025 (v1.20.0)
Demographics, IncomeInternal Revenue Service, Statistics of Income Division
U.S. Population Migration Data (county to county)
filing years 2022–2023
ClimateNOAA National Centers for Environmental Information
U.S. Climate Normals 1991–2020 (Monthly)
1991-2020 Normals
Housing, IncomeU.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis
Regional price parities and county personal income
2023
JobsU.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
Local Area Unemployment Statistics
July 2026
Access, Demographics, Housing, Income, JobsU.S. Census Bureau
American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates (Table-Based Summary File)
2024 ACS 5-Year
DevelopmentU.S. Census Bureau
Building Permits Survey
12 months ending July 2026
DemographicsU.S. Census Bureau
Population Estimates Program
July 1, 2024 estimate
SafetyU.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Health Statistics
Provisional county-level mortality by intent
March 2025 to February 2026; May 2025 to April 2026
SchoolsU.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics
Common Core of Data and EDFacts assessments
2018-19 school year; 2024-25 school year
HousingU.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, Office of Policy Development and Research
Fair Market Rents
FY2026
HousingU.S. Federal Housing Finance Agency
House Price Index (traditional, all-transactions)
2026 Q2
Current conditionsNOAA National Weather Service
National Weather Service current conditions
Live observation, read when the page opens

Profile recalculated October 8, 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 every source with how often each updates.

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