Martinsville city, Virginia (VA)
County owner-occupied free and clear houses and condos in 2010: 1,338
County owner-occupied houses and condos in 2000: 3,914
Renter-occupied apartments: 2,652 (it was 2,584 in 2000)
% of renters here: | 40% |
State: | 33% |
Land area: 11 sq. mi.
Water area: 0.1 sq. mi.
Population density: 1244 people per square mile (very high).
Industries providing employment: Educational, health and social services (27.5%), Manufacturing (14.5%), Professional, scientific, management, administrative, and waste management services (14.4%).
Type of workers:
- Private wage or salary: 81%
- Government: 16%
- Self-employed, not incorporated: 4%
- Unpaid family work: 0%
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- 5,96943.8%Black Non-Hispanic Alone
- 5,68741.7%White Non-Hispanic Alone
- 9917.3%Hispanic or Latino
- 6094.5%Two or more races
- 1721.3%Some other race alone
- 1090.8%Asian alone
- 790.6%American Indian and Alaska Native alone
- 110.08%Native Hawaiian and Other
Pacific Islander alone
Median resident age: | 40.2 years |
Virginia median age: | 39.0 years |
Males: 6,394 | (46.9%) |
Females: 7,237 | (53.1%) |
Martinsville city: | 2.0 people |
Virginia: | 3 people |
Estimated median household income in 2022: $38,509 ($27,441 in 1999)
This county: | $38,509 |
Virginia: | $85,873 |
Median contract rent in 2022 for apartments: $527 (lower quartile is $447, upper quartile is $598)
This county: | $527 |
State: | $1270 |
Estimated median house or condo value in 2022: $89,111 (it was $69,400 in 2000)
Martinsville city: | $89,111 |
Virginia: | $365,700 |
Median monthly housing costs for homes and condos with a mortgage: $938
Median monthly housing costs for units without a mortgage: $401
Institutionalized population: 306
Median real estate property taxes paid for housing units with mortgages in 2022: $884 (0.9%)
Median real estate property taxes paid for housing units with no mortgage in 2022: $687 (0.9%)
Martinsville city: | 26.0% |
Virginia: | 10.6% |
Median age of residents in 2022: 40.2 years old
(Males: 36.8 years old, Females: 42.0 years old)
(Median age for: White residents: 49.0 years old, Black residents: 36.4 years old, American Indian residents: 22.4 years old, Asian residents: 55.4 years old, Hispanic or Latino residents: 22.3 years old, Other race residents: 17.0 years old)
Area name: Henry County-Martinsville city, VA HUD Nonmetro FMR Area
Fair market rent in 2006 for a 1-bedroom apartment in Martinsville city is $387 a month.
Fair market rent for a 2-bedroom apartment is $483 a month.
Fair market rent for a 3-bedroom apartment is $619 a month.
Neighboring counties: Russell County , Wayne County, Kentucky .
Here: | 4.3% |
Virginia: | 2.7% |
Current college students: 661
People 25 years of age or older with a high school degree or higher: 86.5%
People 25 years of age or older with a bachelor's degree or higher: 20.3%
Number of foreign born residents: 695 (53.6% naturalized citizens)
Martinsville city: | 5.1% |
Whole state: | 12.7% |
- Year of entry for the foreign-born population
- 3182010 or later
- 2082000 to 2009
- 1141990 to 1999
- 591980 to 1989
- 281970 to 1979
- 19Before 1970
Mean travel time to work (commute): minutes
Percentage of county residents living and working in this county: 96.3%
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 5,138
- One, attached: 84
- Two: 252
- 3 or 4: 337
- 5 to 9: 350
- 10 to 19: 329
- 20 to 49: 203
- 50 or more: 323
- Mobile homes: 133
Housing units in Martinsville city with a mortgage: 1,758 (55 second mortgage, 0 home equity loan, 54 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 52
Here: | 1.9% with mortgage |
State: | 97.2% with mortgage |
Food Environment Statistics:
Martinsville city: | 3.44 / 10,000 pop. |
State: | 2.03 / 10,000 pop. |
Here: | 0.69 / 10,000 pop. |
Virginia: | 0.17 / 10,000 pop. |
This county: | 2.75 / 10,000 pop. |
Virginia: | 1.43 / 10,000 pop. |
Martinsville city: | 4.81 / 10,000 pop. |
Virginia: | 4.03 / 10,000 pop. |
This county: | 10.31 / 10,000 pop. |
State: | 7.65 / 10,000 pop. |
Martinsville city: | 12.7% |
Virginia: | 9.3% |
Martinsville city: | 29.3% |
State: | 26.7% |
Here: | 18.3% |
State: | 18.6% |
Tornado activity:
Martinsville city historical area-adjusted tornado activity is significantly below Virginia state average. It is 1090159.4 times below overall U.S. average.Earthquake activity:
Martinsville city-area historical earthquake activity is significantly above Virginia state average. It is 31% 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 135.9 miles away from Martinsville city center
On 8/9/2020 at 12:07:37, a magnitude 5.1 (5.1 MW, Depth: 4.7 mi) earthquake occurred 69.5 miles away from the county center
On 7/27/1980 at 18:52:21, a magnitude 5.2 (5.1 MB, 4.7 MS, 5.0 UK, 5.2 UK) earthquake occurred 247.1 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 123.1 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 125.0 miles away from Martinsville city center
On 8/25/2011 at 05:07:52, a magnitude 4.5 (4.5 ML, Depth: 4.2 mi) earthquake occurred 136.2 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: 6,934 (79.4%)
- Carpooled: 767 (8.8%)
- Bus: 31 (0.4%)
- Taxicab, motorcycle, or other means: 178 (2.0%)
- Bicycle: 5 (0.1%)
- Walked: 46 (0.5%)
- Worked at home: 525 (6.0%)
- Health care and social assistance (36%)
- Retail trade (17%)
- Manufacturing (17%)
- Administrative and support and waste management services (9%)
- Educational services (9%)
- Transportation and warehousing (8%)
- Arts, entertainment, and recreation (5%)
- Health care and social assistance (29%)
- Retail trade (14%)
- Manufacturing (14%)
- Administrative and support and waste management services (8%)
- Educational services (7%)
- Transportation and warehousing (6%)
- Arts, entertainment, and recreation (4%)
- Production occupations (11%)
- Construction and extraction occupations (10%)
- Transportation occupations (10%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (10%)
- Management occupations (8%)
- Computer and mathematical occupations (7%)
- Installation, maintenance, and repair occupations (6%)
- Office and administrative support occupations (24%)
- Healthcare support occupations (10%)
- Material moving occupations (9%)
- Sales and related occupations (9%)
- Educational instruction, and library occupations (8%)
- Health diagnosing and treating practitioners and other technical occupations (8%)
- Production occupations (8%)
- Haiti (23%)
- Bolivia (14%)
- Kenya (10%)
- El Salvador (10%)
- Mexico (9%)
- India (7%)
- Vietnam (4%)
- American (20%)
- English (8%)
- Haitian (3%)
- Scottish (2%)
- Irish (2%)
- German (1%)
- Scotch-Irish (1%)
People in group quarters in Martinsville city, Virginia in 2010:
- 166 people in nursing facilities/skilled-nursing facilities
- 140 people in local jails and other municipal confinement facilities
- 45 people in other noninstitutional facilities
- 21 people in group homes intended for adults
- 5 people in emergency and transitional shelters (with sleeping facilities) for people experiencing homelessness
People in group quarters in Martinsville city, Virginia in 2000:
- 476 people in nursing homes
- 102 people in local jails and other confinement facilities (including police lockups)
- 74 people in other noninstitutional group quarters
- 13 people in homes for the mentally retarded
- 8 people in halfway houses
- 8 people in homes or halfway houses for drug/alcohol abuse
- 7 people in hospitals or wards for drug/alcohol abuse
10.03% of this county's 2021 resident taxpayers lived in other counties in 2020 ($36,370 average adjusted gross income)
Here: | 10.03% |
Virginia average: | 10.16% |
10 or fewer of this county's residents moved from foreign countries.
7.74% relocated from other counties in Virginia ($27,242 average AGI)
2.29% relocated from other states ($9,127 average AGI)
Martinsville city: 2.29% Virginia average: 3.91%
Top counties from which taxpayers relocated into this county between 2020 and 2021:
from Henry County, VA | 5.03% ($34,214 average AGI) |
from Rockingham County, NC | 0.49% ($30,500) |
from Franklin County, VA | 0.43% ($44,333) |
10.56% of this county's 2020 resident taxpayers moved to other counties in 2021 ($42,677 average adjusted gross income)
Here: | 10.56% |
Virginia average: | 10.20% |
10 or fewer of this county's residents moved to foreign countries.
8.08% relocated to other counties in Virginia ($29,242 average AGI)
2.48% relocated to other states ($13,435 average AGI)
Martinsville city: 2.48% Virginia average: 3.98%
Top counties to which taxpayers relocated from this county between 2020 and 2021:
to Henry County, VA | 5.82% ($38,415 average AGI) |
to Rockingham County, NC | 0.46% ($30,130) |
Births per 1000 population from 1990 to 1999: 12.0
Births per 1000 population from 2000 to 2006: 11.1
Deaths per 1000 population from 1990 to 1999: 16.3
Deaths per 1000 population from 2000 to 2009: 16.1
Deaths per 1000 population from 2010 to 2020: 20.7
Infant deaths per 1000 live births from 1990 to 1999: 11.1
Infant deaths per 1000 live births from 2000 to 2006: 7.0
Persons under 19 years old without health insurance coverage in 2018: 4.0%
Persons enrolled in hospital insurance and/or supplemental medical insurance (Medicare) in July 1, 2007: 3,888 (2,945 aged, 943 disabled)
Children under 18 without health insurance coverage in 2007: 149 (4%)
Most common underlying causes of death in Martinsville city, Virginia in 1999 - 2019:
- Atherosclerotic heart disease (360)
- Acute myocardial infarction, unspecified (318)
- Bronchus or lung, unspecified - Malignant neoplasms (282)
- Unspecified dementia (199)
- Heart failure, unspecified (172)
- Alzheimer disease, unspecified (91)
- Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, unspecified (68)
- Stroke, not specified as haemorrhage or infarction (68)
- Pneumonia, unspecified (44)
- Cardiac arrest, unspecified (17)
Population without health insurance coverage in 2000: 15%
Children under 18 without health insurance coverage in 2000: 13%
Short term general hospital admissions per 100,000 population in 2004: 49,072
Short term general hospital beds per 100,000 population in 2004: 1,011
Emergency room visits per 100,000 population in 2004: 665,802
General practice office based MDs per 100,000 population in 2005: 1,072
Medical specialist MDs per 100,000 population in 2005: 1,749
Dentists per 100,000 population in 1998: 13
Total births per 100,000 population, July 2005 - July 2006 : 134
Total deaths per 100,000 population, July 2005 - July 2006: 181
Limited-service eating places per 100,000 population in 2005 : 27
Crimes per 100,000 population in 1996: 1
Suicides per 1,000,000 population from 2000 to 2006: 209.5. This is more than state average.
Household type by relationship:
Households: 13,631- Male householders: 2,437 (1,068 living alone), Female householders: 3,352 (1,341 living alone)
1,603 spouses (1,540 opposite-sex spouses), 324 unmarried partners, (311 opposite-sex unmarried partners), 4,034 children (3,809 natural, 62 adopted, 164 stepchildren), 589 grandchildren, 74 brothers or sisters, 204 parents, 3 foster children, 276 other relatives, 245 non-relatives
- In group quarters: 465
Size of family households: 1,645 2-persons, 649 3-persons, 645 4-persons, 142 5-persons, 11 6-persons, 71 7-or-more-persons.
Size of nonfamily households: 2,409 1-person, 211 2-persons.
1,228 married couples with children.
1,513 single-parent households (262 men, 1,251 women).
90.6% of residents of Martinsville city speak English at home.
6.4% of residents speak Spanish at home (55% speak English very well, 26% speak English well, 15% speak English not well, 4% don't speak English at all).
1.5% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (83% speak English very well, 1% speak English well, 16% speak English not well).
0.7% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (75% speak English very well, 25% speak English not well).
0.5% of residents speak other language at home (100% speak English very well).
In fiscal year 2004:
Federal Government expenditure: $155,148,000 ($10,316 per capita)
Department of Defense expenditure: $3,143,000
Federal direct payments to individuals for retirement and disability: $88,578,000
Federal other direct payments to individuals: $37,417,000
Federal direct payments not to individuals: $154,000
Federal grants: $22,495,000
Federal procurement contracts: $2,107,000 ($103,000 Department of Defense)
Federal salaries and wages: $4,398,000 ($34,000 Department of Defense)
Federal Government direct loans: $0,000
Federal guaranteed/insured loans: $2,878,000
Federal Government insurance: $7,462,000
Population change from April 1, 2000 to July 1, 2005:
Births: 940Here: | 63 per 1000 residents |
State: | 70 per 1000 residents |
Deaths: 1,336
Here: | 90 per 1000 residents |
State: | 40 per 1000 residents |
Net international migration: +222
Here: | +15 per 1000 residents |
State: | +18 per 1000 residents |
Net internal migration: -230
Here: | -15 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: | 6.3 |
State: | 7.0 |
Here: | 4.4 |
State: | 4.3 |
- Year house built in Martinsville city, Virginia
- 02020 or later
- 182010 to 2019
- 2312000 to 2009
- 3581990 to 1999
- 5591980 to 1989
- 9851970 to 1979
- 1,0161960 to 1969
- 1,6231950 to 1959
- 8531940 to 1949
- 1,2971939 or earlier
- Rooms in owner-occupied houses in Martinsville city, Virginia
- 01 room
- 02 rooms
- 93 rooms
- 2214 rooms
- 7855 rooms
- 7096 rooms
- 4647 rooms
- 2828 rooms
- 6959+ rooms
- Rooms in renter-occupied apartments in Martinsville city, Virginia
- 121 room
- 1872 rooms
- 3903 rooms
- 7224 rooms
- 6195 rooms
- 3476 rooms
- 1457 rooms
- 738 rooms
- 749+ rooms
- Bedrooms in owner-occupied houses in Martinsville city, Virginia
- 0no bedroom
- 301 bedroom
- 5762 bedrooms
- 1,6393 bedrooms
- 6454 bedrooms
- 2815+ bedrooms
- Bedrooms in renter-occupied apartments in Martinsville city, Virginia
- 13no bedroom
- 5851 bedroom
- 1,2032 bedrooms
- 5793 bedrooms
- 1694 bedrooms
- 235+ bedrooms
- Cars and other vehicles available in Martinsville city in owner-occupied houses/condos
- 120no vehicle
- 1,2801 vehicle
- 1,1682 vehicles
- 4633 vehicles
- 1184 vehicles
- 605+ vehicles
- Cars and other vehicles available in Martinsville city in renter-occupied apartments
- 646no vehicle
- 1,2271 vehicle
- 6082 vehicles
- 763 vehicles
- 444 vehicles
- 05+ vehicles
83.9% of Martinsville city residents lived in the same house 1 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 20% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 82% lived in Virginia.
Martinsville city: | 83.9% |
State average: | 86.6% |
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 9,781
- Other state: 2,777
- Northeast: 683
- Midwest: 170
- South: 1,666
- West: 255
- 48.3%Electricity
- 39.0%Utility gas
- 9.4%Fuel oil, kerosene, etc.
- 2.5%Bottled, tank, or LP gas
- 0.4%Wood
- 0.3%Other fuel
- 0.2%No fuel used
- 70.3%Electricity
- 15.6%Utility gas
- 10.9%Fuel oil, kerosene, etc.
- 1.9%Bottled, tank, or LP gas
- 0.9%Other fuel
- 0.3%Wood
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Here: | 9.6% |
Virginia: | 13.2% |
Here: | 1.0% |
Virginia: | 10.2% |
Here: | 31.4% |
Virginia: | 18.7% |
Supplemental Security Income (SSI) in 2004:
- Total number of recipients: 712
- Number of aged recipients: 66
- Number of blind and disabled recipients: 646
- Number of recipients under 18: 112
- Number of recipients between 18 and 64: 464
- Number of recipients older than 64: 136
- Number of recipients also receiving OASDI: 324
- Amount of payments (thousands of dollars): 295
Most common first names in Martinsville city, VA among deceased individuals | ||
Name | Count | Lived (average) |
---|---|---|
James | 504 | 72.6 years |
William | 363 | 73.8 years |
John | 362 | 73.4 years |
Mary | 345 | 78.9 years |
Robert | 240 | 70.8 years |
George | 228 | 74.6 years |
Annie | 135 | 81.3 years |
Thomas | 133 | 73.0 years |
Virginia | 122 | 77.9 years |
Joseph | 111 | 73.1 years |
Most common last names in Martinsville city, VA among deceased individuals | ||
Last name | Count | Lived (average) |
---|---|---|
Hairston | 461 | 70.3 years |
Martin | 280 | 72.2 years |
Smith | 176 | 74.0 years |
Turner | 117 | 75.7 years |
Gravely | 109 | 74.4 years |
Carter | 102 | 75.1 years |
Jones | 99 | 72.0 years |
Davis | 88 | 72.8 years |
Spencer | 88 | 77.0 years |
Williams | 88 | 70.1 years |
Martinsville city on our top lists:
- #16 on the list of "Top 101 counties with the smallest number of children under 18 without health insurance coverage in 2000"
- #25 on the list of "Top 101 counties with the highest number of deaths per 1000 residents 2007-2013"