Staunton city, Virginia (VA)
County owner-occupied free and clear houses and condos in 2010: 2,132
County owner-occupied houses and condos in 2000: 5,938
Renter-occupied apartments: 4,284 (it was 3,738 in 2000)
% of renters here: | 39% |
State: | 33% |
Land area: 20 sq. mi.
Water area: 0.0 sq. mi.
Population density: 1307 people per square mile (very high).
Industries providing employment: Educational, health and social services (29.6%), Arts, entertainment, recreation, accommodation and food services (11.9%), Retail trade (11.4%).
Type of workers:
- Private wage or salary: 73%
- Government: 22%
- Self-employed, not incorporated: 4%
- Unpaid family work: 0%
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- 20,12478.7%White Non-Hispanic Alone
- 2,57810.1%Black Non-Hispanic Alone
- 1,2224.8%Two or more races
- 1,0174.0%Hispanic or Latino
- 3741.5%Asian alone
- 1980.8%Native Hawaiian and Other
Pacific Islander alone - 260.1%Some other race alone
- 240.09%American Indian and Alaska Native alone
Median resident age: | 41.3 years |
Virginia median age: | 39.0 years |
Males: 11,798 | (45.8%) |
Females: 13,958 | (54.2%) |
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Staunton city: | 2.0 people |
Virginia: | 3 people |
Estimated median household income in 2022: $58,788 ($32,941 in 1999)
This county: | $58,788 |
Virginia: | $85,873 |
Median contract rent in 2022 for apartments: $817 (lower quartile is $622, upper quartile is $1,135)
This county: | $817 |
State: | $1270 |
Estimated median house or condo value in 2022: $236,231 (it was $88,000 in 2000)
Staunton city: | $236,231 |
Virginia: | $365,700 |
Mean price in 2022:
Median monthly housing costs for homes and condos with a mortgage: $1,252Detached houses: $377,912
Here: $377,912 State: $472,865 Townhouses or other attached units: $271,792
Here: $271,792 State: $457,437 In 2-unit structures: $319,390
Here: $319,390 State: $396,289 In 5-or-more-unit structures: $257,718
Here: $257,718 State: $382,551 Mobile homes: $100,252
Here: $100,252 State: $100,736
Median monthly housing costs for units without a mortgage: $455
Institutionalized population: 458
Median real estate property taxes paid for housing units with mortgages in 2022: $1,626 (0.7%)
Median real estate property taxes paid for housing units with no mortgage in 2022: $1,720 (0.7%)
Staunton city: | 12.1% |
Virginia: | 10.6% |
Median age of residents in 2022: 41.3 years old
(Males: 40.4 years old, Females: 43.1 years old)
(Median age for: White residents: 44.3 years old, Black residents: 39.8 years old, American Indian residents: 34.6 years old, Asian residents: 39.8 years old, Hispanic or Latino residents: 24.1 years old, Other race residents: 25.5 years old)
Area name: Augusta County-Staunton city-Waynesboro city, VA HUD Nonmetro FMR Area
Fair market rent in 2006 for a 1-bedroom apartment in Staunton city is $433 a month.
Fair market rent for a 2-bedroom apartment is $565 a month.
Fair market rent for a 3-bedroom apartment is $808 a month.
Neighboring counties: San Juan County, Utah , Lincoln County, West Virginia , Hinsdale County, Colorado , Crawford County, Missouri , Fluvanna County , King and Queen County .
Here: | 2.4% |
Virginia: | 2.7% |
Current college students: 1,387
People 25 years of age or older with a high school degree or higher: 92.6%
People 25 years of age or older with a bachelor's degree or higher: 33.6%
Number of foreign born residents: 1,086 (48.5% naturalized citizens)
Staunton city: | 4.2% |
Whole state: | 12.7% |
- Year of entry for the foreign-born population
- 5502010 or later
- 1862000 to 2009
- 1431990 to 1999
- 921980 to 1989
- 891970 to 1979
- 194Before 1970
Mean travel time to work (commute): minutes
Percentage of county residents living and working in this county: 100.0%
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 9,016
- One, attached: 470
- Two: 438
- 3 or 4: 483
- 5 to 9: 569
- 10 to 19: 628
- 20 to 49: 186
- 50 or more: 649
- Mobile homes: 51
Housing units in Staunton city with a mortgage: 4,500 (394 second mortgage, 0 home equity loan, 266 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 245
Here: | 1.6% with mortgage |
State: | 97.2% with mortgage |
Food Environment Statistics:
Staunton city: | 2.52 / 10,000 pop. |
State: | 2.03 / 10,000 pop. |
Here: | 0.42 / 10,000 pop. |
Virginia: | 0.17 / 10,000 pop. |
This county: | 0.84 / 10,000 pop. |
Virginia: | 1.43 / 10,000 pop. |
Staunton city: | 7.57 / 10,000 pop. |
Virginia: | 4.03 / 10,000 pop. |
This county: | 14.31 / 10,000 pop. |
State: | 7.65 / 10,000 pop. |
Staunton city: | 10.4% |
Virginia: | 9.3% |
Staunton city: | 26.9% |
State: | 26.7% |
Here: | 17.8% |
State: | 18.6% |
Earthquake activity:
Staunton city-area historical earthquake activity is significantly above Virginia state average. It is 43% smaller than the overall U.S. average.On 8/23/2011 at 17:51:04, a magnitude 5.8 (5.8 MW, Depth: 3.7 mi, Class: Moderate, Intensity: VI - VII) earthquake occurred 64.4 miles away from Staunton city center
On 8/9/2020 at 12:07:37, a magnitude 5.1 (5.1 MW, Depth: 4.7 mi) earthquake occurred 160.8 miles away from the county center
On 12/9/2003 at 20:59:18, a magnitude 4.5 (4.5 ML, Depth: 6.2 mi, Class: Light, Intensity: IV - V) earthquake occurred 59.5 miles away from the county center
On 8/25/2011 at 05:07:52, a magnitude 4.5 (4.5 ML, Depth: 4.2 mi) earthquake occurred 62.2 miles away from the county center
On 12/9/2003 at 20:59:14, a magnitude 4.5 (4.5 MB, 4.5 LG) earthquake occurred 75.3 miles away from Staunton city center
On 9/25/1998 at 19:52:52, a magnitude 5.2 (4.8 MB, 4.3 MS, 5.2 LG, 4.5 MW, Depth: 3.1 mi) earthquake occurred 241.0 miles away from the county center
Magnitude types: regional Lg-wave magnitude (LG), body-wave magnitude (MB), local magnitude (ML), surface-wave magnitude (MS), moment magnitude (MW)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 9,661 (78.3%)
- Carpooled: 855 (6.9%)
- Bus: 15 (0.1%)
- Subway or elevated rail: 11 (0.1%)
- Taxicab, motorcycle, or other means: 101 (0.8%)
- Walked: 508 (4.1%)
- Worked at home: 877 (7.1%)
- Health care and social assistance (27%)
- Educational services (19%)
- Retail trade (11%)
- Accommodation and food services (11%)
- Finance and insurance (5%)
- Public administration (5%)
- Manufacturing (5%)
- Health care and social assistance (25%)
- Educational services (17%)
- Retail trade (11%)
- Accommodation and food services (10%)
- Finance and insurance (5%)
- Public administration (5%)
- Manufacturing (4%)
- Sales and related occupations (9%)
- Management occupations (9%)
- Material moving occupations (7%)
- Installation, maintenance, and repair occupations (7%)
- Production occupations (7%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (7%)
- Transportation occupations (6%)
- Office and administrative support occupations (14%)
- Educational instruction, and library occupations (10%)
- Management occupations (10%)
- Sales and related occupations (9%)
- Health diagnosing and treating practitioners and other technical occupations (8%)
- Food preparation and serving related occupations (8%)
- Healthcare support occupations (7%)
- Korea (11%)
- Japan (10%)
- Argentina (8%)
- Jamaica (8%)
- Nigeria (5%)
- Germany (4%)
- Haiti (4%)
- English (18%)
- German (12%)
- American (10%)
- Irish (7%)
- European (4%)
- Scotch-Irish (4%)
- Italian (2%)
People in group quarters in Staunton city, Virginia in 2010:
- 594 people in college/university student housing
- 277 people in nursing facilities/skilled-nursing facilities
- 139 people in mental (psychiatric) hospitals and psychiatric units in other hospitals
- 74 people in emergency and transitional shelters (with sleeping facilities) for people experiencing homelessness
- 39 people in other noninstitutional facilities
- 37 people in residential treatment centers for juveniles (non-correctional)
- 16 people in workers' group living quarters and job corps centers
- 5 people in correctional facilities intended for juveniles
- 4 people in group homes intended for adults
People in group quarters in Staunton city, Virginia in 2000:
- 764 people in state prisons
- 668 people in college dormitories (includes college quarters off campus)
- 475 people in nursing homes
- 235 people in mental (psychiatric) hospitals or wards
- 196 people in local jails and other confinement facilities (including police lockups)
- 109 people in other noninstitutional group quarters
- 75 people in institutions for the deaf
- 48 people in short-term care, detention or diagnostic centers for delinquent children
- 26 people in institutions for the blind
- 21 people in hospitals or wards for drug/alcohol abuse
- 7 people in halfway houses
- 7 people in other nonhousehold living situations
- 6 people in hospitals/wards and hospices for chronically ill
- 6 people in other hospitals or wards for chronically ill
11.05% of this county's 2021 resident taxpayers lived in other counties in 2020 ($50,666 average adjusted gross income)
Here: | 11.05% |
Virginia average: | 10.16% |
10 or fewer of this county's residents moved from foreign countries.
8.40% relocated from other counties in Virginia ($36,477 average AGI)
2.64% relocated from other states ($14,190 average AGI)
Staunton city: 2.64% Virginia average: 3.91%
Top counties from which taxpayers relocated into this county between 2020 and 2021:
from Augusta County, VA | 3.63% ($45,262 average AGI) |
from Waynesboro city, VA | 0.83% ($33,919) |
from Harrisonburg city, VA | 0.59% ($44,344) |
from Rockingham County, VA | 0.50% ($47,654) |
from Albemarle County, VA | 0.42% ($45,136) |
from Charlottesville city, VA | 0.20% ($36,476) |
from Fairfax County, VA | 0.19% ($121,600) |
11.07% of this county's 2020 resident taxpayers moved to other counties in 2021 ($49,350 average adjusted gross income)
Here: | 11.07% |
Virginia average: | 10.20% |
10 or fewer of this county's residents moved to foreign countries.
8.52% relocated to other counties in Virginia ($38,232 average AGI)
2.55% relocated to other states ($11,119 average AGI)
Staunton city: 2.55% Virginia average: 3.98%
Top counties to which taxpayers relocated from this county between 2020 and 2021:
to Augusta County, VA | 4.22% ($51,654 average AGI) |
to Waynesboro city, VA | 1.00% ($45,337) |
to Rockingham County, VA | 0.56% ($45,069) |
to Harrisonburg city, VA | 0.27% ($37,071) |
Births per 1000 population from 1990 to 1999: 11.0
Births per 1000 population from 2000 to 2006: 11.1
Deaths per 1000 population from 1990 to 1999: 11.8
Deaths per 1000 population from 2000 to 2009: 12.8
Deaths per 1000 population from 2010 to 2020: 15.0
Infant deaths per 1000 live births from 1990 to 1999: 5.2
Infant deaths per 1000 live births from 2000 to 2006: 5.5
Persons under 19 years old without health insurance coverage in 2018: 4.6%
Persons enrolled in hospital insurance and/or supplemental medical insurance (Medicare) in July 1, 2007: 4,921 (4,014 aged, 907 disabled)
Children under 18 without health insurance coverage in 2007: 330 (6%)
Most common underlying causes of death in Staunton city, Virginia in 1999 - 2019:
- Acute myocardial infarction, unspecified (515)
- Bronchus or lung, unspecified - Malignant neoplasms (393)
- Alzheimer disease, unspecified (368)
- Atherosclerotic heart disease (343)
- Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, unspecified (325)
- Unspecified dementia (283)
- Stroke, not specified as haemorrhage or infarction (183)
- Congestive heart failure (86)
- Pneumonia, unspecified (75)
- Atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease, so described (12)
Population without health insurance coverage in 2000: 10%
Children under 18 without health insurance coverage in 2000: 8%
Medical specialist MDs per 100,000 population in 2005: 1,191
Dentists per 100,000 population in 1998: 21
Total births per 100,000 population, July 2005 - July 2006 : 86
Total deaths per 100,000 population, July 2005 - July 2006: 133
Limited-service eating places per 100,000 population in 2005 : 17
Suicides per 1,000,000 population from 2000 to 2006: 164.1. This is more than state average.
Household type by relationship:
Households: 25,756- Male householders: 5,093 (1,809 living alone), Female householders: 6,283 (2,433 living alone)
4,292 spouses (4,150 opposite-sex spouses), 1,000 unmarried partners, (982 opposite-sex unmarried partners), 5,690 children (5,174 natural, 198 adopted, 304 stepchildren), 525 grandchildren, 106 brothers or sisters, 348 parents, 0 foster children, 362 other relatives, 699 non-relatives
- In group quarters: 1,454
Size of family households: 3,072 2-persons, 1,565 3-persons, 1,140 4-persons, 321 5-persons, 94 6-persons, 111 7-or-more-persons.
Size of nonfamily households: 4,242 1-person, 774 2-persons, 65 3-persons.
2,666 married couples with children.
1,495 single-parent households (333 men, 1,162 women).
93.7% of residents of Staunton city speak English at home.
2.8% of residents speak Spanish at home (68% speak English very well, 13% speak English well, 16% speak English not well, 3% don't speak English at all).
1.8% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (80% speak English very well, 20% speak English well).
1.3% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (57% speak English very well, 27% speak English well, 10% speak English not well, 5% don't speak English at all).
0.4% of residents speak other language at home (52% speak English very well, 7% speak English well, 12% speak English not well, 30% don't speak English at all).
In fiscal year 2004:
Federal Government expenditure: $176,602,000 ($7,408 per capita)
Department of Defense expenditure: $9,154,000
Federal direct payments to individuals for retirement and disability: $97,074,000
Federal other direct payments to individuals: $43,030,000
Federal direct payments not to individuals: $432,000
Federal grants: $25,720,000
Federal procurement contracts: $1,707,000 ($14,000 Department of Defense)
Federal salaries and wages: $8,639,000 ($2,597,000 Department of Defense)
Federal Government direct loans: $292,000
Federal guaranteed/insured loans: $12,821,000
Federal Government insurance: $11,332,000
Population change from April 1, 2000 to July 1, 2005:
Births: 1,420Here: | 61 per 1000 residents |
State: | 70 per 1000 residents |
Deaths: 1,603
Here: | 69 per 1000 residents |
State: | 40 per 1000 residents |
Net international migration: +25
Here: | +1 per 1000 residents |
State: | +18 per 1000 residents |
Net internal migration: -301
Here: | -13 per 1000 residents |
State: | +14 per 1000 residents |
Total withdrawal of fresh water for public supply: 0.00 millions of gallons per day (all from surface)
Here: | 6.5 |
State: | 7.0 |
Here: | 4.4 |
State: | 4.3 |
- Year house built in Staunton city, Virginia
- 62020 or later
- 6432010 to 2019
- 1,1732000 to 2009
- 6711990 to 1999
- 9381980 to 1989
- 1,3341970 to 1979
- 2,2711960 to 1969
- 2,0351950 to 1959
- 7971940 to 1949
- 2,4031939 or earlier
- Rooms in owner-occupied houses in Staunton city, Virginia
- 01 room
- 192 rooms
- 183 rooms
- 4374 rooms
- 1,2595 rooms
- 1,7046 rooms
- 1,1677 rooms
- 8308 rooms
- 1,3669+ rooms
- Rooms in renter-occupied apartments in Staunton city, Virginia
- 2481 room
- 3552 rooms
- 6963 rooms
- 1,0124 rooms
- 1,0525 rooms
- 6686 rooms
- 1377 rooms
- 1558 rooms
- 2069+ rooms
- Bedrooms in owner-occupied houses in Staunton city, Virginia
- 0no bedroom
- 571 bedroom
- 1,0722 bedrooms
- 3,7943 bedrooms
- 1,5564 bedrooms
- 3125+ bedrooms
- Bedrooms in renter-occupied apartments in Staunton city, Virginia
- 250no bedroom
- 1,1421 bedroom
- 1,7422 bedrooms
- 1,1583 bedrooms
- 1844 bedrooms
- 675+ bedrooms
- Cars and other vehicles available in Staunton city in owner-occupied houses/condos
- 138no vehicle
- 1,9371 vehicle
- 2,9112 vehicles
- 1,2323 vehicles
- 4024 vehicles
- 2185+ vehicles
- Cars and other vehicles available in Staunton city in renter-occupied apartments
- 865no vehicle
- 2,3241 vehicle
- 1,0332 vehicles
- 2783 vehicles
- 124 vehicles
- 505+ vehicles
82.7% of Staunton city residents lived in the same house 1 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 23% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 80% lived in Virginia.
Staunton city: | 82.7% |
State average: | 86.6% |
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 15,293
- Other state: 8,857
- Northeast: 2,204
- Midwest: 2,006
- South: 3,961
- West: 649
- 57.4%Utility gas
- 36.0%Electricity
- 2.9%Bottled, tank, or LP gas
- 1.5%Fuel oil, kerosene, etc.
- 1.1%Solar energy
- 0.8%Wood
- 0.3%No fuel used
- 63.2%Electricity
- 34.8%Utility gas
- 1.0%Bottled, tank, or LP gas
- 0.7%Wood
- 0.3%No fuel used
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Here: | 16.7% |
Virginia: | 13.2% |
Here: | 10.2% |
Virginia: | 10.2% |
Here: | 39.4% |
Virginia: | 18.7% |
Supplemental Security Income (SSI) in 2004:
- Total number of recipients: 656
- Number of aged recipients: 75
- Number of blind and disabled recipients: 581
- Number of recipients under 18: 58
- Number of recipients between 18 and 64: 445
- Number of recipients older than 64: 153
- Number of recipients also receiving OASDI: 298
- Amount of payments (thousands of dollars): 244
Most common first names in Staunton city, VA among deceased individuals | ||
Name | Count | Lived (average) |
---|---|---|
Mary | 464 | 79.5 years |
William | 384 | 73.1 years |
John | 325 | 72.4 years |
James | 315 | 72.9 years |
Charles | 235 | 72.5 years |
Robert | 231 | 71.1 years |
Margaret | 186 | 79.0 years |
George | 160 | 72.7 years |
Virginia | 157 | 79.2 years |
Helen | 148 | 79.0 years |
Most common last names in Staunton city, VA among deceased individuals | ||
Last name | Count | Lived (average) |
---|---|---|
Smith | 193 | 75.0 years |
Miller | 138 | 74.1 years |
Johnson | 136 | 74.9 years |
Campbell | 113 | 71.5 years |
Jones | 107 | 77.5 years |
Brown | 105 | 73.5 years |
Harris | 83 | 76.0 years |
Simmons | 77 | 74.5 years |
Davis | 73 | 75.9 years |
Fitzgerald | 73 | 73.3 years |