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Virginia

First-level unit, United States of America: people, area, the units inside and neighbours, with risk values when released.

Map All 56 first-level units
Page GRX-USA-REdition Baseline Edition 2026Evidence close 2026-09-30ISO USA / USStatus UN member stateValues not yet publishedMethod v1.0.0-draft
8,686,908
people (GHSL 2025)
104,803 km²
area
2.5%
of United States of America
134
units inside

01Map

Inside Virginia

The 134 ADM2 units of Virginia.

FIG 1 · 134 units inside Virginia
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Units rise with people per km² · GHSL 2025 raster · terrain · ADM1 ADM2Risk values when released
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Column height and colour show people per km² by unit, in quantile fifths among the units shown (the key on the map gives the breaks); units with no people on the grid are grey, not the lowest class; the raster beneath is the GHSL 2025 population grid. Source observations, not index values. Select a unit to drill into the units inside it; the path above the map climbs back.
02Figures

People, area and density

Source observations from open grids summed inside the boundary; not index values.

People · GHSL 2025

8,686,908

2.5% of United States of America.

People · WorldPop 2025

9,148,688

+5% against GHSL; the two grids differ in method.

ప్రాంతం

104,803 km²

83 people per km².

కోడ్

US-VA

Subdivision code as carried by the boundary source.

Low coastal zone

1,211,624

people on land at or below 10 m, 13.9% of the unit (GEBCO 2024 and GHSL 2025).

03Units

134 units inside Virginia

Each unit has its own page.

Boundary licences: Public Domain

Unit కోడ్ People (GHSL) People (WorldPop) Area km² Per km² Share Coast ≤ 10 m
Accomack – 30,050 31,445 1,527.09 20 0.3% 10,911
Albemarle – 120,747 143,095 1,878.48 64 1.3% 0
Alexandria – 208,010 216,084 40.65 5,117 2.2% 11,389
Alleghany – 20,911 18,970 1,162.59 18 0.2% 0
Amelia – 14,213 15,472 927.33 15 0.2% 0
Amherst – 37,952 37,037 1,237.74 31 0.4% 0
Appomattox – 15,629 17,710 872.38 18 0.2% 0
Arlington – 244,366 261,764 67.44 3,623 2.6% 10,025
Augusta – 80,023 88,157 2,509.72 32 0.9% 0
Bath – 4,729 3,660 1,383.07 3 0.1% 0
Bedford – 75,654 80,046 2,007.44 38 0.8% 0
Bland – 7,896 7,174 928.27 9 0.1% 0
Botetourt – 34,088 34,889 1,415.51 24 0.4% 0
Bristol – 15,718 15,016 34.27 459 0.2% 0
Brunswick – 17,231 14,274 1,473.28 12 0.2% 0
Buchanan – 23,070 16,054 1,306.29 18 0.2% 0
Buckingham – 17,374 16,506 1,509.96 12 0.2% 0
Buena Vista – 2,894 3,028 16.18 179 0% 0
Campbell – 65,671 67,000 1,309.61 50 0.7% 0
Caroline – 30,950 33,144 1,389.94 22 0.3% 202
Carroll – 33,461 31,158 1,236.25 27 0.4% 0
Charles City – 8,838 7,565 518.87 17 0.1% 1,281
Charlotte – 13,001 10,403 1,236.3 11 0.1% 0
Charlottesville – 29,211 34,997 27.38 1,067 0.3% 0
Chesapeake – 238,924 274,360 908.98 263 2.5% 221,246
Chesterfield – 379,480 406,881 1,135.63 334 4% 8,829
Clarke – 15,464 17,435 460.37 34 0.2% 0
Colonial Heights – 22,575 24,374 20.18 1,119 0.2% 4,020
Covington – 3,630 3,798 14.12 257 0% 0
Craig – 5,319 4,430 851.57 6 0.1% 0
Culpeper – 51,699 58,744 995.58 52 0.5% 0
Cumberland – 13,155 10,696 776.52 17 0.1% 0
Danville – 32,858 33,561 117.06 281 0.3% 0
Dickenson – 15,918 11,869 864.37 18 0.2% 0
Dinwiddie – 21,723 23,158 1,308.64 17 0.2% 0
District of Columbia – 661,448 474,156 176.47 3,748 7% 68,532
Emporia – 4,444 4,247 15.66 284 0% 0
Essex – 10,588 8,754 685.07 15 0.1% 1,909
Fairfax – 21,257 23,268 17.76 1,197 0.2% 0
Fairfax – 1,263,034 1,225,340 1,043.75 1,210 13.4% 22,141
Falls Church – 14,009 13,390 5.43 2,580 0.1% 0
Fauquier – 67,644 77,635 1,685.4 40 0.7% 0
Floyd – 15,293 15,381 989.53 15 0.2% 0
Fluvanna – 28,327 29,202 754.79 38 0.3% 0
Franklin – 59,309 53,113 1,841.31 32 0.6% 0
Franklin – 7,657 8,012 22.08 347 0.1% 2,132
Frederick – 89,632 106,884 1,078 83 1% 0
Fredericksburg – 16,924 22,197 28.46 595 0.2% 133
Galax – 6,105 5,328 20.99 291 0.1% 0
Giles – 18,164 17,844 935.63 19 0.2% 0
Gloucester – 36,579 40,464 653.78 56 0.4% 7,919
Goochland – 32,983 34,083 747.79 44 0.4% 0
Grayson – 14,794 14,116 1,152.63 13 0.2% 0
Greene – 17,143 20,122 404.29 42 0.2% 0
Greensville – 10,480 9,766 771.12 14 0.1% 0
Halifax – 35,733 31,184 2,149.48 17 0.4% 0
Hampton – 147,572 150,136 152.48 968 1.6% 126,097
Hanover – 114,444 122,088 1,223.58 94 1.2% 54
Harrisonburg – 46,534 44,468 43.06 1,081 0.5% 0
Henrico – 333,655 335,997 635.03 525 3.5% 450
Henry – 56,796 49,526 995.25 57 0.6% 0
Highland – 2,280 2,040 1,075.16 2 0% 0
Hopewell – 16,396 18,778 28.03 585 0.2% 0
Isle of Wight – 37,103 39,743 842.21 44 0.4% 10,569
James City – 64,796 72,353 407.4 159 0.7% 6,991
King and Queen – 9,579 8,109 843.79 11 0.1% 1,540
King George – 26,036 29,567 484.78 54 0.3% 2,256
King William – 13,909 16,423 735.53 19 0.1% 1,823
Lancaster – 10,922 10,020 384.33 28 0.1% 2,817
Lee – 26,031 18,176 1,132.09 23 0.3% 0
Lexington – 1,710 2,144 6.65 257 0% 0
Loudoun – 424,031 518,478 1,348.24 315 4.5% 0
Louisa – 37,486 41,823 1,323.09 28 0.4% 0
Lunenburg – 12,994 10,678 1,116.73 12 0.1% 0
Lynchburg – 65,143 73,408 129.24 504 0.7% 0
Madison – 15,016 15,589 833.92 18 0.2% 0
Manassas – 56,928 56,928 27.66 2,058 0.6% 0
Manassas Park – 11,809 11,809 5.01 2,357 0.1% 0
Martinsville – 9,178 9,603 28.84 318 0.1% 0
Mathews – 8,281 7,421 268.23 31 0.1% 2,886
Mecklenburg – 31,610 26,851 1,760.21 18 0.3% 0
Middlesex – 8,211 7,131 367.97 22 0.1% 1,033
Montgomery – 95,861 105,282 1,010.39 95 1% 0
Nelson – 14,688 13,187 1,232.03 12 0.2% 0
New Kent – 19,527 25,888 581.73 34 0.2% 2,126
Newport News – 149,569 152,836 185.66 806 1.6% 31,806
Norfolk – 213,497 213,891 160.72 1,328 2.3% 176,752
Northampton – 10,797 10,740 902.59 12 0.1% 5,591
Northumberland – 10,606 10,104 562.96 19 0.1% 3,475
Norton – 3,079 2,452 19.85 155 0% 0
Nottoway – 16,374 15,700 820.07 20 0.2% 0
Orange – 32,695 35,089 890.5 37 0.3% 0
పేజీ – 25,069 25,433 810.88 31 0.3% 0
Patrick – 17,717 15,709 1,256.94 14 0.2% 0
Petersburg – 40,061 37,247 59.3 676 0.4% 1,963
Pittsylvania – 69,903 61,535 2,530.28 28 0.7% 0
Poquoson – 9,950 11,059 54.23 183 0.1% 7,538
Portsmouth – 80,359 86,161 101.25 794 0.9% 77,101
Powhatan – 26,571 29,879 678.79 39 0.3% 0
Prince Edward – 20,360 18,529 916.91 22 0.2% 0
Prince George – 40,500 52,684 729.41 56 0.4% 1,115
Prince William – 481,639 561,570 886.51 543 5.1% 10,631
Pulaski – 33,878 30,947 857.02 40 0.4% 0
Radford – 19,253 19,169 23.9 806 0.2% 0
Rappahannock – 8,823 8,633 687.8 13 0.1% 0
Richmond – 9,393 8,902 505.78 19 0.1% 685
Richmond – 253,649 269,129 160.37 1,582 2.7% 10,309
Roanoke – 76,877 86,868 110.19 698 0.8% 0
Roanoke – 108,615 115,979 649.69 167 1.2% 0
Rockbridge – 36,250 37,392 1,554.1 23 0.4% 0
Rockingham – 85,948 101,182 2,213.27 39 0.9% 0
Russell – 29,408 22,554 1,236.79 24 0.3% 0
Salem – 29,294 30,649 38.9 753 0.3% 0
Scott – 23,108 18,993 1,391.4 17 0.2% 0
Shenandoah – 40,691 43,531 1,324.09 31 0.4% 0
Smyth – 32,421 26,549 1,174.72 28 0.3% 0
Southampton – 20,624 19,293 1,555.32 13 0.2% 1,218
Spotsylvania – 128,175 148,795 1,068.05 120 1.4% 128
Stafford – 158,823 198,399 722.57 220 1.7% 3,385
Staunton – 17,154 18,609 51.61 332 0.2% 0
Suffolk – 106,415 114,684 1,082.09 98 1.1% 46,787
Surry – 6,326 5,452 731.74 9 0.1% 174
Sussex – 15,626 12,454 1,280.59 12 0.2% 0
Tazewell – 39,894 31,151 1,341.35 30 0.4% 0
Virginia Beach – 451,086 490,191 792.33 569 4.8% 344,563
Warren – 40,704 45,289 565.21 72 0.4% 0
Washington – 54,918 50,592 1,464.03 38 0.6% 0
Waynesboro – 23,161 26,473 39.1 592 0.2% 0
Westmoreland – 13,270 14,715 640.73 21 0.1% 4,056
Williamsburg – 17,154 20,554 21.53 797 0.2% 0
Winchester – 22,932 26,262 23.03 996 0.2% 0
Wise – 40,850 30,359 1,049.46 39 0.4% 0
Wythe – 29,164 26,973 1,204.84 24 0.3% 0
York – 79,834 87,363 326.13 245 0.8% 20,606
04బహిర్గతం

Open exposure layers

Count of H3 resolution-3 cells whose centre falls in the unit and that carry each Natural Earth layer.

Urban areas
1,629 H3 cells
Ports
None at this resolution
Airports
2 H3 cells
Major roads
7,344.4 H3 cells
Railways
1,786.5 H3 cells
Rivers and lakes
1,246 H3 cells
05ప్రమాదం

Risk values

Values when released. Subnational risk values for Virginia publish with the edition from The Global Risks Index. Until then, run a scenario on open data for United States of America.
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Neighbouring units

07మూలాలు

Sources, credits and licences

ADM1 boundaries
geoBoundaries (William & Mary geoLab), gbOpen USA ADM1, source: United States Census Bureau, MAF/TIGER Database, licence: Public Domain · source · represents 2018
ADM2 boundaries
geoBoundaries (William & Mary geoLab), gbOpen USA ADM2, source: United States Census Bureau, MAF/TIGER Database, licence: Public Domain · source · represents 2018
Basemap
OpenFreeMap © OpenMapTiles (CC BY 4.0) · data © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL 1.0). Vector tiles requested by the reader’s browser, unmodified; the map falls back to plain land and sea when the host does not answer.
Terrain
Terrain Tiles (Mapzen, AWS Open Data), compiled from SRTM and other public elevation sources (NASA, USGS, ETOPO1, GMTED, EU-DEM under the Copernicus programme, Geoscience Australia, Kartverket, INEGI, LINZ, data.gov.uk). Display relief, not survey data.
People
GHSL 2025 population grid, European Commission Joint Research Centre (CC BY 4.0), shown at 0.05° and summed per unit; WorldPop 2025 (CC BY 4.0) as a second estimate. Units smaller than a grid cell take the density of the cell under them.
దేశాలు
Natural Earth (public domain).
Elevation
GEBCO Compilation Group (2024) GEBCO 2024 Grid (public domain), reduced to 0.05°: the share of each cell’s land at or below 10 m, weighted by GHSL 2025 people for the low coastal zone.
Position
Boundaries are shown for location only and take no position on any boundary, name or status.

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