Virginia Population Trends

A map provided by demographer Hamilton Lombard of the Weldon Cooper Center shows the area surrounding Winchester highlighted in a dark shade of green, indicating high levels of migration in the region from 2020 to 2023.

Residents moving from D.C. and its surrounding suburbs are relocating further away than they have in the past, part of a national trend of remote workers leaving metropolitan cities for small rural communities.

Cooperation among public and private entities is critical to solve the housing problem.

Good Samaritan Hospice, a community-based nonprofit, hopes its new freestanding hospice house will help address a need for services in the region.

Weldon Cooper's Hamilton Lombard offers insight on Richmond's housing problem.

Salem's population is skewed older. Meanwhile, a proposed rezoning for mixed-use development is controversial. Here's how those are related.

Nearly 20% of Americans 65 and older are still in the workforce, and nearly all of Virginia’s population growth since 2010 has come from its 60 and older population, largely due to birth and death rates and people living longer.

Using data from the Demographic Research Group at the University of Virginia’s Weldon Cooper Center, Sejal Naik (deputy economist for Virginia Realtors) paints a picture of people continuing to gravitate away from larger metro areas to smaller ones.

State and federal officials say fires that hit Virginia this spring and fall season caused some damage but may add ecosystem diversity.

Isle of Wight County Parks and Recreation held an April 18 ribbon-cutting ceremony to celebrate the Born Learning Trail at Riverview Park in Smithfield recently launched in partnership with United Way of South Hampton Roads and the Luter Family YMCA.