City safety & data profile

DanvilleVA

Danville, VA is a 42K-resident city in Danville city with a median household income of $44,423.

Danville city, Virginia. Federal health, economic, and safety indicators for Danville, drawn from the U.S. Census Bureau American Community Survey, CDC PLACES, and CMS Hospital Compare. Danville has a population larger than 75% of the 4,640 U.S. cities Areazine tracks, a median home value of $119,100, and 2 hospitals serving the surrounding area.

Data updated 2026-09-05

42K
Population (place)
Top 25%
By size
$44,423
Median income (place)
$119,100
Median home (place)
24.7%
Poverty rate (place)
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The read on Danville

Danville posts a median household income higher than 4% of U.S. cities Areazine tracks, where 2 hospitals serve the Danville area.

Bottom 5%
by median income, US cities
2
hospitals in & near Danville

Where Danville income ranks nationally

Median household income vs. every place Areazine profiles (place-level ACS)

$44,423 Bottom 4% higher than 4% of 3,889 places Areazine profiles

Danville $0 $260,000 every profiled place, bucketed by value

Each bar is a $20K-wide band; taller bars hold more places Areazine profiles. The dashed line + filled bar mark this entry. Hover or tap any bar for its full count, share, and where it sits relative to this entry.

Source U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey (place-level) · 2024 ACS 5-year

Largest cities in VA

Population among 102 VA places with 10,000+ residents and ACS income on Areazine. Tooltip shows the income rank in the same pool.

residents

What this shows Virginia Beach is the largest VA city on this list; Great Falls leads median income.

Source U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey (place-level) As of 2024 ACS 5-year

Highest median incomes in VA

Median household income among the same 102-city pool. Tooltip shows the population rank.

median

What this shows Great Falls posts the highest place-level median income in VA; Virginia Beach is largest by headcount.

Source U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey (place-level) As of 2024 ACS 5-year

The quick read

Reading Danville, VA beyond the headline numbers

Danville sits inside Danville city, Virginia, at roughly 36.59°N, -79.39°W. Population 42,082, $44,423 median household income. Median home value $119,100, median rent $836. Poverty rate 24.7%, read against that income figure since two cities on the same median can differ underneath it.

2 hospitals in/around Danville, 2/5 avg rating, 1 with an ER.

24.7% of Danville, VA residents live below the poverty line, placing it in the hardest-hit quarter of reporting cities. Read every median on this page against that: half the households are above it, and a large minority are far below.

Housing is inexpensive against local pay -- the median home in Danville runs about 2.7 years of median household income, in the cheapest quarter of reporting cities.

Remote work covers 8.8% of Danville workers, under the midpoint for reporting cities.

Among the CDC measures on this page, stroke departs furthest from its peer median: 6.1% in Danville, the highest-prevalence quarter of the 3,759 cities reporting that measure.

2.2% of Danville workers commute by public transit, a larger share than at least three quarters of reporting cities.

Sources: U.S. Census ACS, CDC PLACES, CMS Hospital Compare, plus live alerts for Danville from FEMA, NOAA, FDA, and CPSC. Economic comparison bars use the unweighted average across tracked Census places with a reported value, not a household-weighted national median.

Population (place)
42,082
Danville · Census Place
Median Income (place)
$44,423
-50% vs avg
Median Home Value (place)
$119,100
-71% vs avg
Median Age (place)
40.4
years · ACS place

10-Year Trends 2013–2024

County-level trend (Danville city): Danville's own historical series isn't separately published by the Census Bureau, so these year-over-year figures track the surrounding county, not the city alone.

20132024
Population
42K-2%
Median Income
$44,423+44%
Median Home Value
$119,100+36%
Poverty Rate
24.7%-10%
Unemployment
5.5%-65%

Economics

Economics indicators for Danville, VA
IndicatorValue
Median Rent
$836/mo
Poverty Rate
24.7% +99% vs avg
Unemployment 5.5%
Bachelor's Degree+ 19.6%
Work From Home 8.8%
Public Transit 2.2%

Population

White 39.8%
African American 51%
Asian 1.2%
Two or More Ethnicities 2.4%

Health Profile 15 measures

Health Indicators

High Blood Pressure
48.6%
Short Sleep Duration
43.9%
Obesity
41.6%
Physical Inactivity
36.1%
Diabetes
20.6%
Current Smoking
19.6%
Frequent Mental Distress
19.1%
Frequent Physical Distress
18.3%
Current Asthma
12.5%
Lack of Health Insurance
12.4%

Preventive Care

Dental Visit 53.8%
Annual Checkup 82.2%

Other Measures

Binge Drinking
10.8%
Coronary Heart Disease
9.6%
Stroke
6.1%

Hospitals 2 total

Rating Distribution
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1
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Average Rating
2/5
Total Hospitals
2
With ER
1
SOVAH HEALTH DANVILLE
DANVILLE · Acute Care Hospitals · ER
★★☆☆☆

What alerts and safety updates affect Danville?

No area-tagged alerts are on record for Danville right now. New federal and counterpart-agency notices still land in the site feed as agencies publish them.

City alert dispatch desk

Sheet VA-DANVILLE-VA · Danville

Danville: 1 tagged alert; lead category NWS weather alert.

  • VOL-TRACE 1 on record
  • WX-LED 100% weather
  • DESK-MIX NOAA
  • PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Houston

Tagged alert mix: Danville

Published notices carrying this city slug or location tag

Value

What this shows 1 tagged notice on record for Danville.

Source Areazine publication corpus As of Live tagged feed

Nearest tagged-volume peer: Houston, TX (1 tagged · Δ0)

Counts reflect published articles tagged to Danville; untagged NOAA county warnings may still appear in the site feed. Browse Virginia state hubs · Methodology

Cities with a similar tagged alert volume 4

Nearest published-notice counts on Areazine (1 tagged here), a feed-density peer set, not an ACS demographic match.

Houston, TX 1 alerts Washington, DC 1 alerts Nashville, TN 1 alerts Portland, OR 1 alerts

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Frequently Asked Questions 6

What is the population of Danville, VA? ▼
Danville, VA has a population of 42,082 people, located in Danville city, Virginia.
What is the median household income in Danville? ▼
The median household income in Danville, VA is $44,423 per year, per the U.S. Census ACS. The poverty rate is 24.7%.
What is the median home value in Danville? ▼
The median home value in Danville, VA is $119,100. Median rent is $836/month.
What are the top health concerns in Danville? ▼
The top health indicators in Danville include High Blood Pressure (48.6%), Short Sleep Duration (43.9%), Obesity (41.6%). Data from CDC PLACES.
How many hospitals are in Danville? ▼
Danville has 2 hospitals with an average rating of 2/5 stars. 1 have emergency departments.
What is the median age in Danville? ▼
The median age in Danville, VA is 40.4 years. 19.6% of residents have a bachelor's degree or higher.

Nationwide cities with similar poverty or income 8

Two ACS-derived peer sets for Danville, both outside Virginia so the neighborhoods are not the geographic nearby list below.

Similar poverty rate

Nearest place-level ACS poverty rates outside VA (24.7% here).

Birmingham, AL 24.7% Waterbury, CT 24.7% Terre Haute, IN 24.7% Greenville, NC 24.6%

Similar median income

Nearest place-level ACS median household incomes outside VA ($44,423 here).

Macomb, IL $44,411 Aldine, TX $44,455 Muncie, IN $44,471 Pontiac, MI $44,329

Compare Danville with another city

Pick a second U.S. city to open a side-by-side profile on population, income, health, and hospitals, the same federal datasets as this page.

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Nearby Cities 8

Reidsville, NC 14K Eden, NC 15K Martinsville, VA 14K Burlington, NC 52K Elon, NC 10K Mebane, NC 14K Graham, NC 15K Summerfield, NC 11K
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Using Danville's profile

Use this as a starting research checklist, not a verdict on whether to live here.

  • Check live recalls, weather and hazard alerts scoped to the Danville area before relying on national headlines. Check your area
  • Read the poverty rate alongside the income figure, two places with the same median can have very different realities.
  • Compare Danville against Virginia peers on any ranking lens. Explore Virginia

Population and economics (income, home value, poverty, education) are place-level U.S. Census ACS; health is CDC PLACES; hospital counts reflect facilities in and around the city. County-level trends are labeled when shown.

Data Sources

All data on this page comes from official U.S. government sources. Population and economic data from the Census Bureau American Community Survey (2024 5-year estimates, place geography). Health data from the CDC PLACES program (2023). Hospital ratings from CMS Hospital Compare (2024). Climate data from NOAA. Education data from NCES. Cost of living from Bureau of Economic Analysis. Crime statistics, where referenced on Areazine, originate from the FBI Crime Data Explorer. Housing market figures referenced on Areazine come from HUD Fair Market Rents. Census economics and population are at place geography; some health and hospital indicators are reported at the county level (Danville city) where that is the smallest published unit.

Every figure on Areazine is published directly from official U.S. government sources, no number is typed in by an editor. City demographic and health figures are compiled directly from U.S. Census (place-level ACS), CDC, and CMS releases, updated quarterly within 30 days of upstream release. County-level trends are labeled when shown. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of 2026.