City safety & data profile
RichmondVA
Richmond, VA is a 227K-resident city in Richmond city with a median household income of $64,587.
Richmond city, Virginia. Federal health, economic, and safety indicators for Richmond, drawn from the U.S. Census Bureau American Community Survey, CDC PLACES, and CMS Hospital Compare. Richmond has a population larger than 98% of the 4,640 U.S. cities Areazine tracks, a median home value of $353,000, and 6 hospitals serving the surrounding area.
Data updated 2026-09-05
- 227K
- Population (place)
- Top 2%
- By size
- $64,587
- Median income (place)
- $353,000
- Median home (place)
- 18.2%
- Poverty rate (place)
The read on Richmond
Richmond posts a median household income higher than 29% of U.S. cities Areazine tracks, where 6 hospitals serve the Richmond area.
- Bottom 30%
- by median income, US cities
- 6
- hospitals in & near Richmond
Where Richmond income ranks nationally
Median household income vs. every place Areazine profiles (place-level ACS)
$64,587 Bottom 29% higher than 29% of 3,889 places Areazine profiles
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.
- Virginia Beach
Virginia Beach, VA
454,808 residents
- Norfolk
Norfolk, VA
238,005 residents
- Chesapeake
Chesapeake, VA
235,429 residents
- Richmond
Richmond, VA
226,610 residents
- Arlington
Arlington, VA
207,627 residents
- Newport News
Newport News, VA
186,247 residents
- Alexandria 159,467
Alexandria, VA
159,467 residents
- Hampton 137,148
Hampton, VA
137,148 residents
- Roanoke 100,011
Roanoke, VA
100,011 residents
- Portsmouth 96,201
Portsmouth, VA
96,201 residents
What this shows Virginia Beach is the largest VA city on this list; Great Falls leads median income.
Highest median incomes in VA
Median household income among the same 102-city pool. Tooltip shows the population rank.
- Great Falls
Great Falls, VA
$250,001 median
- McLean
McLean, VA
$250,001 median
- Wolf Trap
Wolf Trap, VA
$250,001 median
- Bull Run
Bull Run, VA
$241,933 median
- Broadlands
Broadlands, VA
$241,042 median
- Lowes Island
Lowes Island, VA
$220,833 median
- Vienna
Vienna, VA
$216,953 median
- Fort Hunt
Fort Hunt, VA
$216,038 median
- Dranesville
Dranesville, VA
$214,688 median
- Fairfax Stat…
Fairfax Station, VA
$212,224 median
What this shows Great Falls posts the highest place-level median income in VA; Virginia Beach is largest by headcount.
The quick read
Reading Richmond, VA beyond the headline numbers
Richmond sits inside Richmond city, Virginia, at roughly 37.55°N, -77.46°W. Population 226,610, $64,587 median household income. Median home value $353,000, median rent $1,372. Poverty rate 18.2%, read against that income figure since two cities on the same median can differ underneath it.
6 hospitals in/around Richmond, 4.4/5 avg rating, 5 with an ER.
18.2% of Richmond, 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.
The median home in Richmond costs around 5.5 times what a median household earns in a year -- the most expensive quarter of reporting cities, and far enough ahead of local pay that ownership is largely closed to median earners.
19.5% of Richmond workers report working from home, the highest quarter of reporting cities. Where that share runs this high, local income increasingly reflects employers located somewhere else.
Among the CDC measures on this page, current asthma departs furthest from its peer median: 11.5% in Richmond, the highest-prevalence quarter of the 3,722 cities reporting that measure.
2.9% of Richmond workers commute by public transit, a larger share than at least three quarters of reporting cities.
Richmond's median age is 34.7 years, in the youngest quarter of reporting cities.
Sources: U.S. Census ACS, CDC PLACES, CMS Hospital Compare, plus live alerts for Richmond 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.
10-Year Trends 2013–2024
County-level trend (Richmond city): Richmond'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.
Economics
| Indicator | Value |
|---|---|
| Median Rent | |
| Poverty Rate | 18.2% +47% vs avg |
| Unemployment | 5.7% |
| Bachelor's Degree+ | 45.6% |
| Work From Home | 19.5% |
| Public Transit | 2.9% |
Population
Health Profile 15 measures
Health Indicators
Preventive Care
Other Measures
Hospitals 6 total
What alerts and safety updates affect Richmond?
No area-tagged alerts are on record for Richmond right now. New federal and counterpart-agency notices still land in the site feed as agencies publish them.
City alert dispatch desk
Sheet VA-RICHMOND-VA · Richmond
Richmond: 23 tagged alerts; lead category NSW RFS bushfire alert.
- VOL-ACTIVE 23 on record
- MIX-LED 83% au-bushfires
- DESK-MIX NOAA
- NEAR-PEER 16 · El Paso
Tagged alert mix: Richmond
Published notices carrying this city slug or location tag
- Bushfire Alerts
Bushfire Alerts
19
- Flood Warnings 2
Flood Warnings
2
- Product & Food Recalls 1
Product & Food Recalls
1
- Weather Alerts 1
Weather Alerts
1
What this shows 23 tagged notices on record for Richmond.
Nearest tagged-volume peer: El Paso, TX (16 tagged · Δ7)
Counts reflect published articles tagged to Richmond; 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 (23 tagged here), a feed-density peer set, not an ACS demographic match.
Read with this city profile
Frequently Asked Questions 6
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Nationwide cities with similar poverty or income 8
Two ACS-derived peer sets for Richmond, both outside Virginia so the neighborhoods are not the geographic nearby list below.
Similar poverty rate
Nearest place-level ACS poverty rates outside VA (18.2% here).
Similar median income
Nearest place-level ACS median household incomes outside VA ($64,587 here).
Compare Richmond 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.
Nearby Cities 8
Using Richmond'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 Richmond 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 Richmond 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 (Richmond 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.