Danville city, Virginia (VA)

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County population in 2005: 46,143 (94% urban, 6% rural)
County owner-occupied houses and condos: 11,962
Renter-occupied apartments: 8,645

% of renters here:	42%
State:	32%

Land area: 43 sq. mi.
Water area: 0.9 sq. mi.

Population density: 1072 people per square mile

(very high).

Residents with income below the poverty level in 1999:

This county:	20.0%
Whole state:	9.6%

Residents with income below 50% of the poverty level in 1999:

This county:	8.9%
Whole state:	4.3%

Industries providing employment: Manufacturing (27.2%), Educational,health and social services (21.8%), Retail trade (14.0%).

Type of workers:

Private wage or salary: 82%
Government: 13%
Self-employed, not incorporated: 4%
Unpaid family work: 0%

Danville city, Virginia business tout: stores, dealers, real estate agents, wholesalers, restaurants...

Races in Danville city, Virginia:

White Non-Hispanic (53.3%)
Black (44.1%)
Hispanic (1.3%)
Two or more races (0.8%)

Median resident age:	40.5 years
Virginia median age:	35.7 years

Males: 22,024	(45.5%)
Females: 26,387	(54.5%)

Total labor force in 2004: 21,055
Unemployment rate in 2004: 9.2%

Average household size:

Danville city:	2.3 people
Virginia:	2.5 people

Estimated median household income in 2005: $31,259 ($26,900 in 2000)

This county	$31,259
Virginia:	$54,240

Estimated median house/condo value in 2005: $128,488

Danville city	$128,488
Virginia:	$212,300

Median montly rent in 2000: $404
Institutionalized population: 1,078
Median monthly costs for houses with a mortgage in Danville city in 2000: $709

Danville city races chart

Single-family new house construction building permits:

2000: 29 buildings, average cost: $141,800
2001: 32 buildings, average cost: $124,000
2002: 50 buildings, average cost: $112,700
2003: 64 buildings, average cost: $128,800
2004: 48 buildings, average cost: $139,600

Number of permits per 10,000 residents

Average cost (in 1000s)

Median real estate property taxes paid for housing units in 2000: $489 (0.7%)

Area name: Danville, VA MSA
Fair market rent in 2006 for a 1-bedroom apartment in Danville city is $390 a month.
Fair market rent for a 2-bedroom apartment is $503 a month.
Fair market rent for a 3-bedroom apartment is $627 a month.

Neighboring counties: Caswell County, North Carolina , Pittsylvania County .

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Notable locations in this county outside city limits:

Unemployment in September 2007:

Here:	6.6%
Virginia:	2.8%

Unemployment by year (%)

Current college students: 1,709
People 25 years of age or older with a high school degree or higher: 68.5%
People 25 years of age or older with a bachelor's degree or higher: 13.9%

Number of foreign born residents: 700 (40% naturalized citizens)

Danville city:	1.4%
Whole state:	8.1%

Year of entry for the foreign-born population

1995 to March 2000: 297
1990 to 1994: 67
1985 to 1989: 30
1980 to 1984: 29
1975 to 1979: 59
1970 to 1974: 77
1970 to 1974: 15
1965 to 1969: 126

Mean travel time to work: 18.7 minutes

Percentage of county residents living and working in this county: 75.9%

Danville city marital status for males

Danville city marital status for females

Housing units in structures:

One, detached: 16,113
One, attached: 387
Two: 988
3 or 4: 1,295
5 to 9: 1,220
10 to 19: 1,120
20 or more: 980
Mobile homes: 1,005

Housing units in Danville city with a mortgage: 5,937 (586 second mortgage, 716 home equity loan, 17 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 4,866

Danville city historical area-adjusted tornado activity is significantly above Virginia state average. It is 4.5 times above overall U.S. average.
Tornadoes in this county have caused one injury recorded between 1950 and 2004.
On 8/12/2004, a category 1 (max. wind speeds 73-112 mph) tornado injured one person and caused $780,000 in damages.

Class of Workers

Most common industries for males:

Textile mills and textile products (10%)
Plastics and rubber products (9%)
Construction (9%)
Health care (6%)
Accommodation and food services (5%)
Educational services (4%)
Administrative and support and waste management services (4%)

Most common industries for females:

Health care (17%)
Educational services (12%)
Textile mills and textile products (10%)
Accommodation and food services (10%)
Finance and insurance (4%)
Department and other general merchandise stores (4%)
Administrative and support and waste management services (3%)

Most common occupations for males

Other production occupations including supervisors (12%)
Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (5%)
Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (5%)
Other sales and related workers including supervisors (5%)
Laborers and material movers, hand (5%)
Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (5%)
Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (4%)

Most common occupations for females

Textile, apparel, and furnishings workers (7%)
Other production occupations including supervisors (7%)
Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (6%)
Cashiers (5%)
Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (5%)
Secretaries and administrative assistants (5%)
Retail sales workers except cashiers (4%)

Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:

Mexico (24%)
Korea (10%)
Philippines (7%)
Egypt (5%)
Germany (5%)
United Kingdom (5%)
Ecuador (3%)

Most common first ancestries reported in Danville city:

United States or American (18%)
English (9%)
Irish (5%)
German (3%)
African (2%)
Scotch-Irish (2%)
Scottish (1%)

Danville city mode of transportation to work chart

Means of transportation to work

Drove a car alone: 15,383 (80%)
Carpooled: 2,633 (14%)
Bus or trolley bus: 358 (2%)
Ferryboat: 7 (0%)
Taxi: 36 (0%)
Bicycle: 35 (0%)
Walked: 381 (2%)
Other means: 158 (1%)
Worked at home: 271 (1%)

People in group quarters in Danville city, Virginia

609 people in nursing homes
356 people in local jails and other confinement facilities (including police lockups)
281 people in college dormitories (includes college quarters off campus)
252 people in other noninstitutional group quarters
83 people in mental (psychiatric) hospitals or wards
30 people in short-term care, detention or diagnostic centers for delinquent children
30 people in homes for the mentally retarded
24 people in homes or halfway houses for drug/alcohol abuse
13 people in other group homes

Average gross adjusted income of non-migrant taxpayers in this county in 2005 was $39,736.

6.35% of this county's 2006 resident taxpayers lived in other counties in 2005 ($29,179 average adjusted gross income)

Here:	6.35%
Virginia average:	11.06%

10 or fewer of this county's residents moved from foreign countries.
3.71% relocated from other counties in Virginia ($15,389 average AGI)
2.64% relocated from other states ($13,788 average AGI)
Danville city: 2.64%
Virginia average: 4.24%

Percentage of residents relocating from other counties or countries

Top counties from which taxpayers relocated into this county between 2005 and 2006:

from Pittsylvania County, VA	2.49% ($25,655 average AGI)
from Caswell County, NC	0.39% ($21,906)
from Halifax County, VA	0.23% ($24,868)
from Rockingham County, NC	0.15% ($32,360)
from Guilford County, NC	0.11% ($21,667)
from Henry County, VA	0.07% ($25,250)
from Martinsville city, VA	0.06% ($17,600)

6.94% of this county's 2005 resident taxpayers moved to other counties in 2006 ($35,351 average adjusted gross income)

Here:	6.94%
Virginia average:	10.78%

10 or fewer of this county's residents moved to foreign countries.
3.90% relocated to other counties in Virginia ($17,135 average AGI)
3.04% relocated to other states ($18,216 average AGI)
Danville city: 3.04%
Virginia average: 4.13%

Percentage of residents relocating to other counties or countries

Top counties to which taxpayers relocated from this county between 2005 and 2006:

to Pittsylvania County, VA	2.42% ($30,123 average AGI)
to Caswell County, NC	0.37% ($32,050)
to Guilford County, NC	0.34% ($25,804)
to Rockingham County, NC	0.21% ($22,206)
to Halifax County, VA	0.18% ($23,379)
to Henry County, VA	0.14% ($27,174)
to Richmond city, VA	0.13% ($27,818)

Births per 1000 population from 1990 to 1999: 14.1
Births per 1000 population from 2000 to 2003: 12.0

Births per 1000 population in Danville city

Deaths per 1000 population from 1990 to 1999: 14.3
Deaths per 1000 population from 2000 to 2003: 15.7

Deaths per 1000 population in Danville city

Infant deaths per 1000 live births from 1990 to 1999: 12.9
Infant deaths per 1000 live births from 2000 to 2003: 12.6

Infant deaths per 1000 live births in Danville city

Persons enrolled in hospital insurance and/or supplemental medical insurance (Medicare) in July 1, 2003: 13,256 (10,822 aged, 2,434 disabled)
Population without health insurance coverage in 2000: 16%
Children under 18 without health insurance coverage in 2000: 13%

Household type by relationship

Households: 46,733

In family households: 38,276 (7,929 male householders, 5,046 female householders)
8,148 spouses, 13,265 children (12,488 natural, 268 adopted, 509 stepchildren), 1,340 grandchildren, 578 brothers or sisters, 419 parents, 759 other relatives, 792 non-relatives
In nonfamily households: 8,457 (2,922 male householders (2,577 living alone)), 4,711 female householders (4,393 living alone)), 824 nonrelatives
In group quarters: 1,678 (1,060 institutionalized population)

Size of family households: 6,148 2-persons, 3,332 3-persons, 2,076 4-persons, 928 5-persons, 353 6-persons, 138 7-or-more-persons.

Size of nonfamily households: 6,970 1-person, 582 2-persons, 29 3-persons, 31 4-persons, 8 5-persons, 13 6-persons.

4,846 married couples with children.
4,590 single-parent households (505 men, 4,085 women).

96.4% of residents of Danville city speak English at home.
2.0% of residents speak Spanish at home (55% speak English very well, 17% speak English well, 18% speak English not well, 9% don't speak English at all).
1.0% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (81% speak English very well, 16% speak English well, 3% speak English not well).
0.4% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (51% speak English very well, 29% speak English well, 19% speak English not well).
0.2% of residents speak other language at home (64% speak English very well, 19% speak English well, 17% speak English not well).

In fiscal year 2004:
Federal Government expenditure: $347,688,000 ($7498 per capita)
Department of Defense expenditure: $8,688,000
Federal direct payments to individuals for retirement and disability: $177,768,000
Federal other direct payments to individuals: $82,790,000
Federal direct payments not to individuals: $984,000
Federal grants: $73,400,000
Federal procurement contracts: $2,297,000 ($42,000 Department of Defense)
Federal salaries and wages: $10,448,000 ($2,377,000 Department of Defense)
Federal Government direct loans: $0,000
Federal guaranteed/insured loans: $11,560,000
Federal Government insurance: $21,987,000

Population change from April 1, 2000 to July 1, 2005:
Births: 3,190

Here:	69 per 1000 residents
State:	70 per 1000 residents

Deaths: 3,841

Here:	83 per 1000 residents
State:	40 per 1000 residents

Net international migration: +236

Here:	+5 per 1000 residents
State:	+18 per 1000 residents

Net internal migration: -1,770

Here:	-38 per 1000 residents
State:	+14 per 1000 residents

Population growth in Danville city

Total withdrawal of fresh water for public supply: 7.42 millions of gallons per day (all from surface)

Median number of rooms in houses and condos:

Here:	6.1
State:	6.6

Median number of rooms in apartments:

Here:	4.3
State:	4.3

Year house built:

1999 to March 2000: 74
1995 to 1998: 354
1990 to 1994: 616
1980 to 1989: 1,790
1970 to 1979: 3,974
1960 to 1969: 4,266
1950 to 1959: 4,375
1940 to 1949: 3,056
1939 or earlier: 4,603

Rooms in owner-occupied houses in Danville city, Virginia:

1 room: 6
2 rooms: 25
3 rooms: 157
4 rooms: 1,410
5 rooms: 2,858
6 rooms: 2,601
7 rooms: 2,122
8 rooms: 1,371
9 or more rooms: 1,412

Rooms in renter-occupied apartments in Danville city, Virginia:

1 room: 220
2 rooms: 423
3 rooms: 1,382
4 rooms: 2,944
5 rooms: 2,142
6 rooms: 761
7 rooms: 486
8 rooms: 173
9 or more rooms: 114

Bedrooms in owner-occupied houses and condos in Danville city:

no bedroom: 15
1 bedroom: 217
2 bedrooms: 3,526
3 bedrooms: 5,717
4 bedrooms: 2,022
5 or more bedrooms: 465

Bedrooms in renter-occupied apartments in Danville city:

no bedroom: 280
1 bedroom: 1,905
2 bedrooms: 4,275
3 bedrooms: 1,742
4 bedrooms: 359
5 or more bedrooms: 84

Cars and other vehicles available in Danville city in owner-occupied houses/condos:

no vehicle: 865
1 vehicle: 3,878
2 vehicles: 4,489
3 vehicles: 1,913
4 vehicles: 605
5 or more vehicles: 212

Cars and other vehicles available in Danville city in renter-occupied apartments

no vehicle: 2,709
1 vehicle: 4,075
2 vehicles: 1,498
3 vehicles: 288
4 vehicles: 25
5 or more vehicles: 50

60% of Danville city residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 33% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 74% lived in Virginia.

Danville city:	60.5%
State average:	53.8%

Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:

This state: 37262
Northeast: 2211
Midwest: 821
South: 6719
West: 471

Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $51,300

Housing units lacking complete plumbing facilities: 1%

Housing units lacking complete kitchen facilities: 2%

Year Householders Moved Into Unit:

Most commonly used house heating fuel in houses and condos:

Utility gas (72%)
Electricity (17%)
Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (7%)
Bottled, tank, or LP gas (2%)
Wood (1%)

Most commonly used house heating fuel in apartments:

Utility gas (51%)
Electricity (40%)
Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (4%)
Bottled, tank, or LP gas (3%)
Other fuel (1%)
Wood (1%)

Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 473

Here:	8.8%
Virginia:	9.5%

Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 161

Here:	6.2%
Virginia:	8.2%

Students in private undergraduate colleges: 271

Here:	17.6%
Virginia:	20.6%

Educational Attainment

School Enrollment by Level of School

Age and Sex of Sensory-Disabled Residents (Noninstitutionalized)

Age and Sex of Physically-Disabled Residents (Noninstitutionalized)

Age and Sex of Mentally-Disabled Residents (Noninstitutionalized)

Age and Sex of Self-Care Disabled Residents (Noninstitutionalized)

Age and Sex of Go-Outside-Home Disabled Residents (Noninstitutionalized)

Age and Sex of Residents with Employment Disability (Noninstitutionalized)

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