Census-designated place · Warren County, Virginia

Apple Mountain Lake, Virginia

Apple Mountain Lake is a census-designated place in Warren County, Virginia, part of the Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV metro area. It has 1,671 residents. Apple Mountain Lake, Virginia has a quality-of-life score of 82 out of 100 (very high), ranking #2,831 of 15,651 US cities and towns. Within Virginia it ranks #142 of 375 cities and towns. It ranks best on income inequality (Gini index) (low), child care cost burden (low) and rent as share of income (low). It ranks worst on drought exposure (high), hospital quality rating (low) and public libraries (low).

82Very high

Quality-of-life score: #2,831 of 15,651 cities and towns
Virginia: #142 of 375 in VA
Population: 1,671 (2020-2024)
Land area: 2 mi²
Density: 974.0 /mi²
FIPS code: 5102064

Percentile-based score (100 is the best in the country) from 73 of 80 indicators, with the default “Explorer” weights.

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Scores by category

Each category averages its indicators' percentile scores among US cities and towns.

Safety77#3,648/15,637
Economy86#2,179/15,631
Housing98#297/14,977
Health59#6,352/15,609
Healthcare25#11,751/15,650
Environment77#3,604/15,453
Education81#3,042/15,649
Infrastructure77#3,666/15,650
Community67#5,155/15,651
Leisure & amenities33#10,484/15,651

Strengths · Weaknesses

Indicators where Apple Mountain Lake, Virginia ranks highest and lowest among US cities and towns (score = percentile, 100 = best). Values marked “Warren County value” are the county’s: the source publishes no figure for this city or town, and the county holding most of its residents stands in.

Strengths

Income inequality (Gini index) · low0.236
100/100Virginia 0.472United States 0.4832020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B19083
Child care cost burden · low16.5%
99/100Virginia 24.4%United States 27.9%2023 & 2024University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteWarren County value
Rent as share of income · low17.8%
99/100Virginia 29.4%United States 30.6%2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B25071
Broadband subscriptions · high100.0%
99/100Virginia 91.0%United States 91.0%2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B28002
Homicide rate · low0.0 /100k
94/100Virginia 4.3 /100kUnited States 4.8 /100kMay 2025–Apr 2026Centers for Disease Control and PreventionProvisional dataWarren County value
Median household income · high$131,799
91/100Virginia $92,116United States $81,6042020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B19013

Weaknesses

Drought exposure · high89%
7/100Virginia 70%United States 43%Oct 2025–Sep 2026National Drought Mitigation Center (University of Nebraska–Lincoln), USDA and NOAAWarren County value
Hospital quality rating · low2.0
9/100Virginia 3.7United States 3.2Jul 2026Centers for Medicare & Medicaid ServicesWarren County value
Public libraries · low0.2 /10k
14/100Virginia 0.4 /10kUnited States 0.5 /10k2024Institute of Museum and Library ServicesWarren County value
Dentists · low34 /100k
15/100Virginia 76 /100kUnited States 75 /100k2023University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteWarren County value
Gyms and fitness centers · low0.5 /10k
15/100Virginia 1.6 /10kUnited States 1.3 /10k2025U.S. Bureau of Labor StatisticsWarren County value
Job growth · low-1.6%
17/100Virginia -0.2%United States 0.1%2026 Q1U.S. Bureau of Labor StatisticsProvisional dataWarren County value

Trends

The largest changes over about five years, next to the country's over the same periods.

PopulationRising
1,369 (2015-2019) → 1,671 (2020-2024)
+22%5 yearsCensus table B01003US 328,329,953 → 340,003,797
Median household incomeImproving
$59,337 (2015-2019) → $131,799 (2020-2024)
+122%5 yearsCensus table B19013US $65,712 → $81,604
Bachelor's degree or higherImproving
20.6% (2015-2019) → 36.8% (2020-2024)
+16 pts5 yearsCensus table B15003US 32.1% → 35.7%
Child poverty rateImproving
16.1% (2015-2019) → 5.2% (2020-2024)
−11 pts5 yearsCensus table B17001US 16.8% → 15.5%
Poverty rateImproving
11.7% (2015-2019) → 3.2% (2020-2024)
−8.5 pts5 yearsCensus table B17001US 12.3% → 12.1%
Rent-burdened householdsWorsening
0.0% (2015-2019) → 8.2% (2020-2024)
+8.2 pts5 yearsCensus table B25070US 49.6% → 51.1%

What changed in five years

How each measure moved between two periods about five years apart, read against whether more or less is better, the published margin of error and the same change in other places.

Over about five years, Apple Mountain Lake, Virginia improved on 3 of 9 measures with a comparison and declined on 0. 6 moved within the margin of error and 0 barely changed.

Earlier (2015-2019)
Latest (2020-2024)
Lower standingHigher standing

Position is the place's standing among cities and towns: further right is better, whichever way the measure counts.

Improved3

Household income+122%$59,337 → $131,799
Bachelor's++16 points20.6% → 36.8%
Inequality−0.0730.310 → 0.236

Declined0

No measure declined by more than its margin of error.

All 9 measures

Change of every measure of Apple Mountain Lake, Virginia between two periods about five years apart
Measure	Before	After	Change	Reading	Favourable vs peers
Average commute time	48.3 min2015-2019	44.7 min2020-2024	−3.6 min	Within the margin of error	83%
Bachelor's degree or higher	20.6%2015-2019	36.8%2020-2024	+16 points	Improved	98%
Broadband subscriptions	100.0%2015-2019	100.0%2020-2024	0 points	Within the margin of error	8%
Effective property tax rate	0.68%2015-2019	0.54%2020-2024	−0.1 points	Within the margin of error	44%
High school diploma or higher	91.5%2015-2019	90.0%2020-2024	−1.5 points	Within the margin of error	19%
Home price to income ratio	3.4×2015-2019	2.8×2020-2024	−0.6×	Within the margin of error	94%
Income inequality (Gini index)	0.3102015-2019	0.2362020-2024	−0.073	Improved	91%
Median household income	$59,3372015-2019	$131,7992020-2024	+122%	Improved	99%
Public transit commuters	0.0%2015-2019	0.0%2020-2024	0 points	Within the margin of error	60%

“Against peers” compares the change with the same change in the 14640 cities and towns that have the same two periods. It describes how common a change is, not why it happened.

Sources: American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates. Values are the latest and the one five years earlier of the same publisher dataset; datasets that changed publisher in between are never compared.

Survey estimates (American Community Survey) compare the two most recent 5-year windows that do not share years, so the margin of error of the difference holds. The 2015-2019 window predates the pandemic and 2020-2024 includes it.
A change counts only when it is larger than 1.645 times the square root of the two standard errors squared, summed (a 90% margin). Measures published without a margin must change by at least 5% to count.
“Against peers” compares the change with the same change in the 15651 cities and towns that have the same two periods. It describes how common a change is, not why it happened.
Standing is a percentile among the same places: 0 is the lowest value on the measure (or the worst when lower is better), 100 the best.

Cities and towns like Apple Mountain Lake, Virginia five years ago that improved

The places whose measures looked most like those of Apple Mountain Lake, Virginia in the earlier period, ranked by how many measures improved beyond the margin of error, minus how many declined. A comparison of published data, not a forecast and not advice.

For comparison, Apple Mountain Lake, Virginia itself moved +10.6 points in standing on average over the same 8 measures (standings of all places average about zero).

How the ranking works

Similarity is the root-mean-square difference of standings in the earlier period over the measures most places have. Places are ranked by measures that improved beyond the margin of error minus those that declined (a count that estimation noise in small places cannot inflate), then by the mean change of standing over the measures a place has in both periods. Only places with more improvements than declines and a rise in standing are listed. Standings are relative, so a place can improve in absolute terms and still lose standing.

Who lives here

Age, race and education of residents, from the American Community Survey. Shares are of all residents (age), residents of every origin (race) or adults 25 and over (education).

Age and sex

1,671 residents (±443)

Men
Women

80 and over
70–79†
60–69†

Income

How household income is spread, not just the middle: each bar is the share of households in that income range.

Household income

515 households (±149)

Apple Mountain Lake, Virginia
Virginia share

Under $25k2.7%†14
$25k–50k4.1%†21
$50k–75k

Homes

Who owns and who rents, what homes cost, and what the housing stock looks like.

Owners and renters

515 households (±149)

Apple Mountain Lake, Virginia
Virginia share

Own81%417
Rent19%†98

Biggest shift since 2015–2019: Own (−15.5 points).

† Wide margin of error (more than 30% of the estimate): read with care.

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Getting to work

How workers travel to their job and how long it takes them.

How people get to work

924 workers (±308)

Apple Mountain Lake, Virginia
Virginia share

Drive alone75%†689
Carpool17%†159
Public transit

Jobs and pay

What the largest occupations here pay, from the Bureau of Labor Statistics' Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics survey.

The Bureau of Labor Statistics publishes pay by metro area, not by county or city. The metro area page lists its largest occupations and lets you look up any job.

Pay in the Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV

Local businesses

Employer businesses and sole proprietors by industry, per resident and against the state and the nation. Counts of businesses next to counts of people, not a measure of demand.

The Census Bureau publishes business counts by county, not by city, so these are the figures of Warren County, the county holding most of Apple Mountain Lake's residents.

Warren County has 882 employer establishments, 210 for every 10,000 residents (0.85× the US rate of 248; 0.87× Virginia's), with 11,889 paid employees at an average annual pay of $47,112. The Census Bureau also counts 3,237 nonemployer businesses, mostly sole proprietors.

Establishments: 882; 3,237 nonemployers
Per 10,000 residents: 210; US 248 · Virginia 241
Paid employees: 11,889
Average annual pay: $47,112; US $68,342

Employer establishments, employees, average pay and nonemployers of Warren County by industry, with the density per resident against the nation

Specialty trade contractors	86	20.5	1.32×More than typical	452	$62,051	345
Restaurants and other eating places	66	15.7	0.86×About typical	1,172	$23,599	8
Ambulatory health care services	45	10.7	0.51×Fewer than typical	317	$73,479	82
Construction of buildings	44	10.5	1.39×More than typical	161	$40,503	161
Full-service restaurants	33	7.9	1.02×About typical	553	$25,309	5
Religious organizations	31	7.4	1.33×More than typical	154	$27,948	—
Building equipment contractors	30	7.1	1.19×About typical	135	$54,170	83
Lessors of real estate	28	6.7	0.54×Fewer than typical	46	$40,304	320
Limited-service restaurants	27	6.4	0.80×About typical	549	$22,115	—
Building finishing contractors	24	5.7	1.50×More than typical	106	$56,915	105
Truck transportation	24	5.7	1.13×About typical	304	$76,286	42
Automotive repair and maintenance	23	5.5	1.09×About typical	136	$45,772	43

Rank places for an industry Open Warren County

County Business Patterns (2023); Nonemployer Statistics (2024)

Per-resident figures divide by the population estimate of 2023: 41,983 residents here, 336,755,052 in the United States. County Business Patterns counts establishments in 2023; the Nonemployer Statistics count businesses in 2024.
“More than typical” is a density at least 1.25 times the nation's per resident, “fewer” at most 0.8 times, with at least 10 establishments. It compares counts of businesses with counts of people: it says nothing about demand, incomes, size, quality or profit, and visitors and commuters are not residents.
The Census Bureau adds noise to employment and payroll to protect confidentiality, and withholds some figures: an industry with few establishments can show employees or pay as unavailable.
Industries overlap: a narrower industry (full-service restaurants) is part of a broader one (restaurants), so the rows do not add up.
Industries follow the North American Industry Classification System; the two surveys use different editions (NAICS 2017 and 2022), which this page matches industry by industry.

Federal contracts performed here

In FY2026, an estimated $0 of federal contract obligations were for work performed in Apple Mountain Lake, Virginia: $0 per resident (US $1,994).

Obligations: $0
Per resident: $0; US $1,994
Sole-source: —; US 30%
Single offer: —; US 8.8%

A signal is a reason to look closer, not evidence of wrongdoing: most sole-source awards are lawful and justified.

Top buying agencies

Top recipients

Spending by fiscal year

14.7KFY2017
59.7KFY2018
54.1KFY2019
58.9KFY2020
-15.6KFY2021
29.9KFY2022
0FY2024
0FY2025

What was bought

Source: Federal contract transactions (Federal Procurement Data System) (U.S. Department of the Treasury, USAspending.gov), data current to Oct 3, 2026, loaded Oct 3, 2026.

How this is estimated

Agencies report each contract action's place of performance as a county and a ZIP code. A ZIP code's money is split among the cities it covers by the share of its land inside each (Census 2020 ZIP code tabulation areas); the part outside city limits stays with the county.

The place of performance is what the contracting agency reports, often the contractor's office rather than where the work happens.
Shares are of land, not of people or businesses: a ZIP code that is mostly rural land but has its offices in town gives the town less than it should.
ZIP codes that are not mapped areas (post office boxes, the unique ZIP codes of large federal sites and companies) stay with their county, unless one city covers nearly all of it.
Counts of actions and awards include those only partly in Apple Mountain Lake, Virginia, so they do not add up across cities.

Apple Mountain Lake, Virginia's figures are part of those of Warren County, VA ($10.9M in FY2026), never added to them: 0.0% of that total.

Grants and other federal assistance are counted by county here, not split among cities: Apple Mountain Lake is mostly in Warren County.

See federal money in Warren County

Representation in Congress

Members serving today, with their record in the current Congress (party-unity votes cast with their caucus, roll calls missed). Not a grade.

Apple Mountain Lake, Virginia is represented in the 119th Congress by these members.

House

Ben ClineR-VA-6 · 100% of residentsWith party 99%Missed 1.0%

Senate

Explore Congress The 2026 races

County

A city can lie in several counties. Some indicators are published for counties only: the page marks them.

Warren County66100% of residents

Metro area

The metro or micro area the city belongs to.

Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV86

Other cities and towns in Warren County

Largest first.

Similar cities and towns

Closest indicator profiles across the country (no model: score distances).

Data and sources

Latest published value of each indicator; periods differ by source. Values flagged by their publisher are marked.

PLACES: Local Data for Better HealthCenters for Disease Control and Prevention · release 2025
Local Area Unemployment StatisticsU.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics · release 2025
American Community Survey 5-Year EstimatesU.S. Census Bureau · release 2017-2024
Population Estimates ProgramU.S. Census Bureau · release 2025
Small Area Health Insurance EstimatesU.S. Census Bureau · release 2024
Small Area Income and Poverty EstimatesU.S. Census Bureau · release 2024
County Health Rankings & RoadmapsUniversity of Wisconsin Population Health Institute · release 2022-2025+2026-03-supplement

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