Graceful Growth
According to the Cooper Center, Richmond's surrounding counties are striving to manage development and change.
Richmond Magazine
Virginia Population Trends
Why Southwest Virginia’s Population Trends Are Changing in the 2020s
A tightening labor supply will give workers more choice in who they work for, while the persistence of remote work will allow many workers more freedom in where they choose to live. That shift is creating new opportunities for rural regions like Southwest Virginia.
Virginia Population Change: 2020 to 2024
Virginia's Public Access Project calls upon Cooper Center data for a graphic on population change in Virginia.
Virginia Public Access Project
With more migration into rural areas, many counties are seeing an increase in younger adults
We're seeing a demographic turnaround in many localities.
Cardinal News
How New Kent County thrives on gaming parlors elsewhere
Half of the local revenues generated at Rosie's Gaming Emporium in South Richmond and five other Virginia gaming parlors go to New Kent County, home of the state's only horse
Richmond Times-Dispatch
House money: New Kent thrives on gaming parlors elsewhere
Half of the money "historical horse racing" machines generate in South Richmond ends up in New Kent County's treasury - $14.5 million in the past five years, including $3.7 million in the fiscal year that ended on June 30.
Our Community Now
Trump wants federal workers back in the office. However, many of them appear to have moved to rural Virginia.
His back-to-the-office plan could have economic implications far beyond the Washington metro area.
Cardinal News
How significant are the Republican gains in Virginia this year? Here's the data.
Trump expanded his vote in almost every locality. Here are those gains put into context.
Cardinal News
New census data shows a switch: More people are now moving into Virginia than out
Gov. Glenn Youngkin says this data shows his policies are working. He's made reversing out-migration a top priority.
Cardinal News
Voter turnout percentage down from 2020 in IW, Surry - Smithfield Times
Isle of Wight County saw several hundred more voters turn out this year than in 2020, but that’s not the whole story.
Smithfield Times