After losing population for three decades in a row, Danville is now gaining population again. It’s not because more people are moving in; it’s because fewer people are moving out.
Demographic trends
Analysis of Virginia’s demographic trends
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The people moving out of Virginia make more money than the people moving in
We delve into a new batch of IRS data that sheds light on migration trends. The most affluent group of taxpayers moving into Virginia are immigrants who chose Loudoun County, not native-born Americans. First of a three-part series.
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New population estimates: 32 times more people have moved out of Fairfax County than out of all rural Virginia
Since the 2020 census, only four rural counties have seen more people move out than move in. Virginia’s out-migration is now driven by Fairfax County and much of Hampton Roads.
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Virtually all of Virginia outside Northern Virginia and Hampton Roads now sees more people moving in than moving out
Danville’s net in-migration is more than all but three other cities in Virginia.
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New population estimates: Fairfax County population losses accelerate, so do population gains downstate
Virginia continues to see more people moving in than out, a reversal of a long-running trend. These stats also contradict a previous report on Roanoke.
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Census: Roanoke’s population decline is accelerating, city on pace to rival its steep drop in the 1960s
To find a bigger population loss, you have to go back to the 1960s during a period of suburbanization and white flight.
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New census stats show number of people moving into Virginia now 2.5 times the number moving out
This represents a turnaround from a decade of net out-migration, although Virginia’s numbers remain small compared to neighboring states to the South.
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ODU report: Without immigration, Virginia’s population growth would be almost flat. And much of Northern Virginia would have lost population.
The report details how immigration is propping up population growth in some localities and mitigating population decline in others.
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Waynesboro went blue this year. Changing demographics have changed the city’s politics.
The city voted Democratic for the first time in a governor’s race in 40 years. That realignment is being driven by an influx of new residents, many of them working in or around Charlottesville.
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Virginia’s population center is moving closer to Fredericksburg each year
The state’s population center, once in Cumberland County, is now in Caroline County and moving north each year.
