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: 1252 people per square mile (very high).
Industries providing employment: Educational, health and social services (29.6%), Retail trade (12.2%), Arts, entertainment, recreation, accommodation and food services (10.4%).
Type of workers:
- Private wage or salary: 72%
- Government: 22%
- Self-employed, not incorporated: 6%
- Unpaid family work: 0%
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- 19,74880.7%White Non-Hispanic Alone
- 2,73911.2%Black Non-Hispanic Alone
- 7943.2%Hispanic or Latino
- 7112.9%Two or more races
- 3521.4%Asian alone
- 720.3%American Indian and Alaska Native alone
- 320.1%Some other race alone
- 270.1%Native Hawaiian and Other
Pacific Islander alone
Median resident age: | 43.1 years |
Virginia median age: | 38.5 years |
Males: 11,285 | ![]() |
Females: 13,381 | ![]() |

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Staunton city: | 2.0 people |
Virginia: | 3 people |
Estimated median household income in 2019: $54,194 ($32,941 in 1999)
This county: | $54,194 |
Virginia: | $76,456 |
Median contract rent in 2019 for apartments: $729 (lower quartile is $529, upper quartile is $929)
This county: | $729 |
State: | $1091 |
Estimated median house or condo value in 2019: $178,715 (it was $88,000 in 2000)
Staunton city: | $178,715 |
Virginia: | $288,800 |
Mean price in 2019:
Median monthly housing costs for homes and condos with a mortgage: $1,200Detached houses: $277,365
Here: $277,365 State: $377,025 Townhouses or other attached units: $234,958
Here: $234,958 State: $384,010 In 2-unit structures: $341,057
Here: $341,057 State: $299,685 In 5-or-more-unit structures: $217,173
Here: $217,173 State: $344,101 Mobile homes: $124,346
Here: $124,346 State: $76,756
Median monthly housing costs for units without a mortgage: $422
Institutionalized population: 458
Graphs represent county-level data. Detailed 2008 Election Results
Median real estate property taxes paid for housing units with mortgages in 2019: $1,499 (0.9%)
Median real estate property taxes paid for housing units with no mortgage in 2019: $1,557 (0.8%)
Staunton city: | 10.4% |
Virginia: | 9.9% |
Median age of residents in 2019: 43.1 years old
(Males: 40.9 years old, Females: 44.7 years old)
(Median age for: White residents: 45.1 years old, Black residents: 37.6 years old, American Indian residents: 43.8 years old, Asian residents: 38.1 years old, Hispanic or Latino residents: 22.8 years old, Other race residents: 32.8 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
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Here: | 4.1% |
Virginia: | 4.6% |
Current college students: 1,387
People 25 years of age or older with a high school degree or higher: 90.0%
People 25 years of age or older with a bachelor's degree or higher: 34.1%
Number of foreign born residents: 936 (39.4% naturalized citizens)
Staunton city: | 3.8% |
Whole state: | 12.7% |
- Year of entry for the foreign-born population
- 5552010 or later
- 1252000 to 2009
- 1191990 to 1999
- 921980 to 1989
- 891970 to 1979
- 194Before 1970
Mean travel time to work (commute): 19.9 minutes
Percentage of county residents living and working in this county: 45.9%
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 8,132
- One, attached: 367
- Two: 460
- 3 or 4: 598
- 5 to 9: 677
- 10 to 19: 797
- 20 to 49: 344
- 50 or more: 523
- Mobile homes: 92
Housing units in Staunton city with a mortgage: 4,069 (21 second mortgage, 392 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 2,073
Here: | 66.7% with mortgage |
State: | 67.7% 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: 9,852 (85.4%)
- Carpooled: 730 (6.3%)
- Bus: 28 (0.2%)
- Subway or elevated rail: 36 (0.3%)
- Taxicab, motorcycle, or other means: 58 (0.5%)
- Bicycle: 22 (0.2%)
- Walked: 393 (3.4%)
- Worked at home: 411 (3.6%)
- Health care and social assistance (24%)
- Educational services (19%)
- Retail trade (12%)
- Accommodation and food services (7%)
- Manufacturing (7%)
- Other services, except public administration (6%)
- Finance and insurance (4%)
- Health care and social assistance (23%)
- Educational services (19%)
- Retail trade (11%)
- Accommodation and food services (7%)
- Manufacturing (7%)
- Other services, except public administration (5%)
- Finance and insurance (4%)
- Sales and related occupations (11%)
- Transportation occupations (8%)
- Management occupations (8%)
- Material moving occupations (7%)
- Production occupations (7%)
- Food preparation and serving related occupations (7%)
- Construction and extraction occupations (6%)
- Office and administrative support occupations (14%)
- Sales and related occupations (12%)
- Educational instruction, and library occupations (12%)
- Healthcare support occupations (8%)
- Health diagnosing and treating practitioners and other technical occupations (8%)
- Personal care and service occupations (7%)
- Management occupations (6%)
- Korea (15%)
- Jamaica (9%)
- Morocco (7%)
- Cuba (7%)
- China, excluding Hong Kong and Taiwan (7%)
- Democratic Republic of Congo (Zaire) (5%)
- Germany (5%)
- English (15%)
- German (13%)
- American (12%)
- Irish (7%)
- Scotch-Irish (3%)
- European (3%)
- African (2%)
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
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
10.81% of this county's 2011 resident taxpayers lived in other counties in 2010 ($38,367 average adjusted gross income)
Here: | 10.81% |
Virginia average: | 9.50% |
10 or fewer of this county's residents moved from foreign countries.
8.66% relocated from other counties in Virginia ($30,363 average AGI)
2.16% relocated from other states ($8,004 average AGI)
Staunton city: 2.16% Virginia average: 3.61%
Top counties from which taxpayers relocated into this county between 2010 and 2011:
from Augusta County, VA | ![]() |
from Waynesboro city, VA | ![]() |
from Rockingham County, VA | ![]() |
from Harrisonburg city, VA | ![]() |
from Albemarle County, VA | ![]() |
10.40% of this county's 2010 resident taxpayers moved to other counties in 2011 ($40,975 average adjusted gross income)
Here: | 10.40% |
Virginia average: | 9.76% |
10 or fewer of this county's residents moved to foreign countries.
8.29% relocated to other counties in Virginia ($31,845 average AGI)
2.11% relocated to other states ($9,130 average AGI)
Staunton city: 2.11% Virginia average: 3.89%
Top counties to which taxpayers relocated from this county between 2010 and 2011:
to Augusta County, VA | ![]() |
to Waynesboro city, VA | ![]() |
to Rockingham County, VA | ![]() |
to Harrisonburg city, VA | ![]() |
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 2006: 12.8
Deaths per 1000 population from 2007 to 2019: 14.4
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: 24,666- Male householders: 5,255 (1,617 living alone), Female householders: 5,478 (2,429 living alone)
4,396 spouses (4,333 opposite-sex spouses), 776 unmarried partners, (768 opposite-sex unmarried partners), 5,401 children (5,021 natural, 106 adopted, 273 stepchildren), 627 grandchildren, 68 brothers or sisters, 304 parents, 20 foster children, 227 other relatives, 777 non-relatives
- In group quarters: 1,358
Size of family households: 3,052 2-persons, 1,299 3-persons, 1,218 4-persons, 279 5-persons, 141 6-persons, 85 7-or-more-persons.
Size of nonfamily households: 4,041 1-person, 548 2-persons, 119 3-persons, 13 4-persons.
2,521 married couples with children.
1,366 single-parent households (296 men, 1,070 women).
94.5% of residents of Staunton city speak English at home.
1.5% of residents speak Spanish at home (66% speak English very well, 16% speak English well, 12% speak English not well, 6% don't speak English at all).
1.6% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (85% speak English very well, 11% speak English well, 3% speak English not well).
1.2% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (36% speak English very well, 40% speak English well, 10% speak English not well, 14% don't speak English at all).
1.2% of residents speak other language at home (61% speak English very well, 11% speak English well, 28% speak English not well).
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
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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: | 4.4 |
- Year house built in Staunton city, Virginia
- 4442014 or later
- 1342010 to 2013
- 1,3792000 to 2009
- 7871990 to 1999
- 8971980 to 1989
- 1,6091970 to 1979
- 1,8251960 to 1969
- 1,6261950 to 1959
- 9111940 to 1949
- 2,3191939 or earlier
- Rooms in owner-occupied houses in Staunton city, Virginia
- 51 room
- 182 rooms
- 373 rooms
- 4124 rooms
- 1,1165 rooms
- 1,4056 rooms
- 9977 rooms
- 7808 rooms
- 1,3509+ rooms
- Rooms in renter-occupied apartments in Staunton city, Virginia
- 1261 room
- 3582 rooms
- 7063 rooms
- 1,3074 rooms
- 7625 rooms
- 7526 rooms
- 2497 rooms
- 2608 rooms
- 959+ rooms
- Bedrooms in owner-occupied houses in Staunton city, Virginia
- 5no bedroom
- 901 bedroom
- 9522 bedrooms
- 3,5063 bedrooms
- 1,2764 bedrooms
- 2705+ bedrooms
- Bedrooms in renter-occupied apartments in Staunton city, Virginia
- 121no bedroom
- 1,1001 bedroom
- 2,0342 bedrooms
- 1,1833 bedrooms
- 1264 bedrooms
- 575+ bedrooms
- Cars and other vehicles available in Staunton city in owner-occupied houses/condos
- 166no vehicle
- 1,7521 vehicle
- 2,2872 vehicles
- 1,0503 vehicles
- 6884 vehicles
- 1915+ vehicles
- Cars and other vehicles available in Staunton city in renter-occupied apartments
- 652no vehicle
- 2,2631 vehicle
- 1,3322 vehicles
- 2653 vehicles
- 234 vehicles
- 565+ vehicles
81.1% of Staunton city residents lived in the same house 1 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 24% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 77% lived in Virginia.
Staunton city: | 81.1% |
State average: | 84.7% |
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 15,338
- Other state: 8,031
- Northeast: 2,770
- Midwest: 1,265
- South: 3,186
- West: 814
- 57.4%Utility gas
- 36.2%Electricity
- 2.9%Fuel oil, kerosene, etc.
- 1.8%Bottled, tank, or LP gas
- 1.4%Wood
- 0.2%Other fuel
- 0.2%No fuel used
- 57.5%Electricity
- 40.0%Utility gas
- 1.2%Bottled, tank, or LP gas
- 0.5%Wood
- 0.4%No fuel used
- 0.3%Fuel oil, kerosene, etc.
- 0.2%Other fuel
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Here: | 17.1% |
Virginia: | 10.4% |
Here: | 13.9% |
Virginia: | 10.4% |
Here: | 57.0% |
Virginia: | 20.4% |
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 |