Since 1987, the Virginia Statistical Abstract has been THE desktop reference to consult for Virginia data on a wide variety of subjects—employment, taxes, agriculture, crime, education, trade, construction, health, vital statistics, population, finance, tourism, the environment—and much, much more! Compare Virginia to the nation as a whole and 10 surrounding states, or go in depth with locality-level data (Note: tables are being updated, and many (though not all) locality level tables have aggregations based on the U.S. Census Bureau's new Metropolitan Statistical Areas. A list of the new MSA and the older 1993 versions can be found here).

Almost 700 tables are available in easy-to-read PDF files or Excel spreadsheets. If you don't see what you're looking for, check out the Cooper Center's VaStat, or the Census Bureau's Statistical Abstract of the United States.