Virginia
Virginia: the places inside it, the companies based here, and where this atlas has research on it.
state · population 8,800,000 (registry) · North America · page prepared 2026-11-07
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Virginia at a glance
Rolled up from the 27 regions inside Virginia on this site, with census figures from Statistics Canada.
Population8,657,499
census
Places inside27
20 with a full /local page
Businesses on file151,604
business register, all places inside
Companies headquartered136
in the company directory
Who represents them10
places with a /politics page
Property & employers10 · 0
/property and /employers records
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Who leads Virginia, and how households are doing
Researched 2026-11-08 from official statistics; every figure links to its source.
Leadership
Economy & households
- Population
- 8,880,107 persons (Census Bureau Vintage 2025, July 1 estimate) (2025) ↗
- GDP
- 841,944.1 USD millions, current dollars, seasonally adjusted annual rate (BEA) (2026-Q2) ↗
- Unemployment
- 3.6 % seasonally adjusted, preliminary (BLS LAUS) (2026-09) ↗
- Median household income
- 100,000 USD, current dollars (Census CPS ASEC) (2025) ↗
- Home ownership
- 69.6 % (Census Housing Vacancy Survey, annual) (2025) ↗
- Debt per person with a credit report
- 77,100 USD average debt per adult with a credit score (NY Fed Consumer Credit Panel/Equifax, via USAFacts); mortgages = ~74.1% of it (2025) ↗
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Home prices in the biggest cities
As each source measures them (benchmark, median or average sale price); not directly comparable across measures.
| City / metro | Price | Measure | As of |
|---|---|---|---|
| Virginia (statewide) ↗ | 420,000 USD | median sale | 2026-09 |
| Northern Virginia (Fairfax & Arlington counties, Alexandria, Fairfax City, Falls Church, Vienna, Herndon, Clifton) ↗ | 744,950 USD | median sale | 2026-09 |
| Richmond Metro (Chesterfield, Hanover, Henrico, Richmond City), all properties ↗ | 425,000 USD | median sale | 2026-09 |
| Richmond Metro, single-family ↗ | 450,000 USD | median sale | 2026-09 |
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Languages
Official-language and home-language figures as the census reports them.
| Language | Share | Measure | As of |
|---|---|---|---|
| Language other than English ↗ | 18.2% | % of residents age 5+ speaking it at home (ACS 2024; 1.52M people; US 23%) | 2024 |
| Spanish ↗ | 45.1% | % of non-English-at-home speakers age 5+ (685,400 people) (ACS 2024) | 2024 |
| Arabic ↗ | spoken at home by 65,700 people age 5+, 2nd most common non-English language (ACS 2024) | 2024 | |
| Chinese (incl. Mandarin, Cantonese) ↗ | spoken at home by 62,300 people age 5+, 3rd (ACS 2024) | 2024 |
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Largest companies in Virginia
Ranked by the measure shown, from the cited ranking or filing.
| Company | Measure | Value | As of |
|---|---|---|---|
| Freddie Mac (McLean) ↗ | revenue | 131,688 USD millions (Fortune 500 2026 #33) | 2025 |
| Boeing (Arlington) ↗ | revenue | 89,463 USD millions (#47) | 2025 |
| RTX (Arlington) ↗ | revenue | 88,603 USD millions (#49) | 2025 |
| Capital One Financial (McLean) ↗ | revenue | 69,252 USD millions (#63) | 2025 |
| Performance Food Group (Richmond) ↗ | revenue | 59,898.9 USD millions (#80) | 2025 |
| General Dynamics (Reston) ↗ | revenue | 52,550 USD millions (#91) | 2025 |
| Northrop Grumman (Falls Church) ↗ | revenue | 41,954 USD millions (#112) | 2025 |
| Ferguson Enterprises (Newport News) ↗ | revenue | 31,316 USD millions (#147) | 2025 |
| CarMax (Richmond) ↗ | revenue | 28,207.3 USD millions (#162) | 2025 |
| Dollar Tree (Chesapeake) ↗ | revenue | 25,041.8 USD millions (#182) | 2025 |
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Worth knowing
- 2026-01Abigail Spanberger took office as Virginia's 75th governor on January 17, 2026, the state's first female governor; Lt. Gov. Ghazala Hashmi, sworn in the same day, is the first Muslim woman elected statewide in the US. ↗
- 2025-07The Weldon Cooper Center (the Commonwealth's official estimates) put Virginia at 8.88 million on July 1, 2025, up more than 248,000 since the 2020 Census; 12th most populous state. ↗
- 2026-09Virginia total nonfarm employment was 4,250,600 in September 2026 (preliminary), down 0.6% from a year earlier. ↗
- 2026-09Virginia had 30,001 active home listings at the end of September 2026, up 20.4% year over year, while the statewide median price was unchanged at $420,000 and closed sales fell 4.2%. ↗
- 2026-0624 Virginia-headquartered companies are on the 2026 Fortune 500, with Amentum (Chantilly, #313) and Venture Global (Arlington, #328) new to the list. ↗
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Census
US Census Bureau American Community Survey.
Median household income$90,974
Median rent$1,514/mo
Immigrants12.9%
Renters32.8%
Aged 65+16.3%
Unemployment4.2%
Low income9.9%
Speak a language other than English16.2%
Languages spoken at home (other than English)
- Spanish642,108 · 7.4%
- Other Indo-European languages206,170 · 2.4%
- Other Asian and Pacific Island languages95,843 · 1.1%
- Other and unspecified languages84,264 · 1%
- Arabic60,534 · 0.7%
- Chinese (incl. Mandarin, Cantonese)58,800 · 0.7%
- Korean56,655 · 0.7%
- Vietnamese50,764 · 0.6%
- Tagalog (incl. Filipino)46,382 · 0.5%
- French, Haitian, or Cajun40,182 · 0.5%
- Russian, Polish, or other Slavic languages31,067 · 0.4%
- German or other West Germanic languages28,858 · 0.3%
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Largest places in Virginia
By registry population; places with a full /local page are marked.
- 1.Virginia Beach, VA full459,470
- 2.Chesapeake, VA full249,422
- 3.Norfolk, Virginia full238,005
- 4.Richmond, Virginia full226,610
- 5.Newport News, Virginia full186,247
- 6.Hampton, Virginia full137,148
- 7.Roanoke, Virginia full100,011
- 8.Portsmouth, Virginia full97,915
- 9.Suffolk, Virginia full94,324
- 10.Lynchburg, Virginia full79,009
- 11.Harrisonburg, Virginia full51,814
- 12.Leesburg-Ashburn, Virginia full48,788
- 13.Charlottesville, Virginia full46,553
- 14.Manassas, Virginia full42,772
- 15.Danville, Virginia full42,239
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Inside Virginia
27 regions have Virginia as their parent.
- Abingdon, Virginia town
- Buena Vista, Virginia
- Charlottesville, Virginia
- Chesapeake, VA
- Danville, Virginia
- Fredericksburg, Virginia
- Front Royal, Virginia
- Hampton, Virginia
- Harrisonburg, Virginia
- Jamestown, Virginia
- Leesburg-Ashburn, Virginia
- Lexington, Virginia
- Lynchburg, Virginia
- Manassas, Virginia
- Newport News, Virginia
- Norfolk, Virginia
- Petersburg, VA
- Portsmouth, Virginia
- Richmond, Virginia
- Roanoke, Virginia
- Smithfield, Virginia
- Staunton, Virginia
- Suffolk, Virginia
- Tappahannock, Virginia town
- Virginia Beach, VA
- Wheeling, Virginia
- Williamsburg, Virginia
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Companies based in Virginia
2 in the Research Upon company directory list their headquarters here, and 136 across Virginia and the places inside it — search them all below.
| Company | Industry | Founded |
|---|---|---|
| Oak View National Bank | Finance | |
| Strategy | Finance | 1989 |
areaAbout this page: figures for the whole of Virginia are rolled up from every region inside it; each place inside has a page of its own, and the companies headquartered here are listed above.