Town · Appomattox County, Virginia

Appomattox, Virginia

Appomattox is a town in Appomattox County, Virginia, part of the Lynchburg, VA metro area. It has 2,084 residents. Appomattox, Virginia has a quality-of-life score of 53 out of 100 (moderate), ranking #7,337 of 15,651 US cities and towns. Within Virginia it ranks #253 of 375 cities and towns. It ranks best on math scores (high), property crime rate (low) and child care cost burden (low). It ranks worst on voter turnout (low), dentists (low) and drought exposure (high).

53Moderate

Quality-of-life score: #7,337 of 15,651 cities and towns
Virginia: #253 of 375 in VA
Population: 2,084 (2020-2024)
Land area: 2 mi²
Density: 938.3 /mi²
FIPS code: 5102072

Percentile-based score (100 is the best in the country) from 71 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.

Safety84#2,551/15,637
Economy33#10,441/15,631
Housing81#2,828/14,977
Health40#9,393/15,609
Healthcare14#13,473/15,650
Environment96#590/15,453
Education62#5,894/15,649
Infrastructure32#10,572/15,650
Community37#9,890/15,651
Leisure & amenities37#9,814/15,651

Strengths · Weaknesses

Indicators where Appomattox, Virginia ranks highest and lowest among US cities and towns (score = percentile, 100 = best). Values marked “Appomattox 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

Math scores · high3.56
98/100Virginia 3.27United States 3.032019University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteAppomattox County value
Property crime rate · low262 /100k
98/100Virginia 1,354 /100kUnited States 1,535 /100k2025Federal Bureau of InvestigationAppomattox County value
Child care cost burden · low19.5%
96/100Virginia 24.4%United States 27.9%2023 & 2024University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteAppomattox County value
Social associations · high17.2 /10k
95/100Virginia 11.1 /10kUnited States 9.1 /10k2023University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteAppomattox County value
Homicide rate · low0.0 /100k
94/100Virginia 4.3 /100kUnited States 4.8 /100kMay 2025–Apr 2026Centers for Disease Control and PreventionProvisional dataAppomattox County value
Job growth · high2.7%
92/100Virginia -0.2%United States 0.1%2026 Q1U.S. Bureau of Labor StatisticsProvisional dataAppomattox County value

Weaknesses

Voter turnout · low36.8%
0/100Virginia 70.7%United States 65.2%2024U.S. Election Assistance CommissionAppomattox County value
Dentists · low6 /100k
0/100Virginia 76 /100kUnited States 75 /100k2023University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteAppomattox County value
Drought exposure · high100%
1/100Virginia 70%United States 43%Oct 2025–Sep 2026National Drought Mitigation Center (University of Nebraska–Lincoln), USDA and NOAAAppomattox County value
Primary care physicians · low12 /100k
1/100Virginia 76 /100kUnited States 76 /100k2022University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteAppomattox County value
Average weekly wage · low$839
2/100Virginia $1,540United States $1,5142025U.S. Bureau of Labor StatisticsAppomattox County value
Grocery stores · low0.6 /10k
2/100Virginia 1.5 /10kUnited States 1.7 /10k2025U.S. Bureau of Labor StatisticsAppomattox County value

Trends

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

PopulationRising
1,856 (2015-2019) → 2,084 (2020-2024)
+12%5 yearsCensus table B01003US 328,329,953 → 340,003,797
Child poverty rateImproving
52.0% (2015-2019) → 12.5% (2020-2024)
−39 pts5 yearsCensus table B17001US 16.8% → 15.5%
Broadband subscriptionsImproving
60.0% (2015-2019) → 92.8% (2020-2024)
+33 pts5 yearsCensus table B28002US 82.7% → 91.0%
Poverty rateImproving
32.0% (2015-2019) → 12.2% (2020-2024)
−20 pts5 yearsCensus table B17001US 12.3% → 12.1%
Rent-burdened householdsImproving
56.2% (2015-2019) → 36.7% (2020-2024)
−20 pts5 yearsCensus table B25070US 49.6% → 51.1%
Median household incomeImproving
$30,987 (2015-2019) → $51,875 (2020-2024)
+67%5 yearsCensus table B19013US $65,712 → $81,604

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, Appomattox, Virginia improved on 5 of 13 measures with a comparison and declined on 0. 8 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.

Improved5

Poverty−20 points32.0% → 12.2%
Broadband+33 points60.0% → 92.8%
Household income+67%$30,987 → $51,875
Inequality−0.0870.474 → 0.387
Uninsured−6.2 points12.3% → 6.1%

Declined0

No measure declined by more than its margin of error.

All 13 measures

Change of every measure of Appomattox, Virginia between two periods about five years apart
Measure	Before	After	Change	Reading	Favourable vs peers
Average commute time	23.3 min2015-2019	25.4 min2020-2024	+2.1 min	Within the margin of error	26%
Bachelor's degree or higher	20.0%2015-2019	12.7%2020-2024	−7.3 points	Within the margin of error	4%
Broadband subscriptions	60.0%2015-2019	92.8%2020-2024	+33 points	Improved	99%
Effective property tax rate	0.70%2015-2019	0.49%2020-2024	−0.2 points	Within the margin of error	60%
High school diploma or higher	87.1%2015-2019	90.2%2020-2024	+3.1 points	Within the margin of error	69%
Home price to income ratio	4.2×2015-2019	3.1×2020-2024	−1.1×	Within the margin of error	98%
Income inequality (Gini index)	0.4742015-2019	0.3872020-2024	−0.087	Improved	94%
Median household income	$30,9872015-2019	$51,8752020-2024	+67%	Improved	93%
Poverty rate	32.0%2015-2019	12.2%2020-2024	−20 points	Improved	99%
Public transit commuters	0.0%2015-2019	0.0%2020-2024	0 points	Within the margin of error	60%
Rent as share of income	40.3%2015-2019	27.0%2020-2024	−13 points	Within the margin of error	96%
Rent-burdened households	56.2%2015-2019	36.7%2020-2024	−20 points	Within the margin of error	93%
Uninsured residents (under 65)	12.3%2015-2019	6.1%2020-2024	−6.2 points	Improved	90%

“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 Appomattox, Virginia five years ago that improved

The places whose measures looked most like those of Appomattox, 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, Appomattox, Virginia itself moved +25.2 points in standing on average over the same 10 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

2,084 residents (±431)

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

793 households (±148)

Appomattox, Virginia
Virginia share

Under $25k21%†167
$25k–50k26%†207
$50k–75k

Homes

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

Owners and renters

793 households (±148)

Appomattox, Virginia
Virginia share

Own60%479
Rent40%†314

No change since 2015–2019 is larger than the margin of error.

† 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

1,056 workers (±277)

Appomattox, Virginia
Virginia share

Drive alone78%†819
Carpool11%†113
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 Lynchburg, VA

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 Appomattox County, the county holding most of Appomattox's residents.

Appomattox County has 319 employer establishments, 189 for every 10,000 residents (0.76× the US rate of 248; 0.78× Virginia's), with 2,634 paid employees at an average annual pay of $34,896. The Census Bureau also counts 1,107 nonemployer businesses, mostly sole proprietors.

Establishments: 319; 1,107 nonemployers
Per 10,000 residents: 189; US 248 · Virginia 241
Paid employees: 2,634
Average annual pay: $34,896; US $68,342

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

Specialty trade contractors	34	20.2	1.30×More than typical	221	$49,027	77
Religious organizations	23	13.7	2.46×More than typical	100	$18,690	—
Restaurants and other eating places	15	8.9	0.48×Fewer than typical	269	$18,045	3
Ambulatory health care services	12	7.1	0.34×Fewer than typical	278	$33,680	49
Building equipment contractors	11	6.5	1.09×About typical	74	$50,973	15
Gasoline stations	11	6.5	2.01×More than typical	86	$29,023	—
Construction of buildings	10	5.9	0.79×Fewer than typical	57	$52,368	52
Heavy and civil engineering construction	10	5.9	5.18×More than typical	34	$30,029	3
Automotive repair and maintenance	9	5.3	1.06×Too few to compare	30	$37,267	25
Foundation, structure and building exterior contractors	9	5.3	1.70×Too few to compare	120	$49,442	9
Plumbing, heating and air-conditioning contractors	9	5.3	1.62×Too few to compare	64	$48,688	10
Services to buildings and dwellings	9	5.3	0.79×Too few to compare	28	$57,964	113

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

Per-resident figures divide by the population estimate of 2023: 16,846 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 $35.4K of federal contract obligations were for work performed in Appomattox, Virginia: $17.00 per resident (US $1,994).

Obligations: $35.4K; +522% vs FY2025
Per resident: $17.00; US $1,994
Sole-source: 0.0%; US 30%
Single offer: 20%; 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

U.S. Customs and Border Protection$22.9K65%
Federal Prison System / Bureau of Prisons$7,37721%
National Park Service$4,93114%
Defense Logistics Agency$1780.5%

Top recipients

GLOBAL ENTERPRISE, INC$30.3K86%
NEW SOUTH ASSOCIATES, INC.$2,4616.9%
VITETTA GROUP INCORPORATED$8772.5%
HUNTSVILLE TRACTOR & EQUIPMENT INC$6581.9%
YURTECH LLC$6251.8%

Spending by fiscal year

1.1KFY2017
2.4KFY2018
1.7KFY2019
312FY2020
10.2KFY2021
16KFY2022
1.8KFY2023
48.9KFY2024

Top industries (NAICS)

Motor vehicle body and trailer manufacturing · 3362$30.3K86%
Management, scientific, and technical consulting services · 5416$2,4616.9%
Computer systems design and related services · 5415$9342.6%
Architectural, engineering, and related services · 5413$8772.5%
Agriculture, construction, and mining machinery manufacturing · 3331$6581.9%

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 Appomattox, Virginia, so they do not add up across cities.

Appomattox, Virginia's figures are part of those of Appomattox County, VA ($3.1M in FY2026), never added to them: 1.1% of that total.

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

See federal money in Appomattox 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.

Appomattox, Virginia is represented in the 119th Congress by these members.

House

John J. McGuire IIIR-VA-5 · 100% of residentsWith party 99%Missed 1.6%

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.

Appomattox County62100% of residents

Metro area

The metro or micro area the city belongs to.

Lynchburg, VA67

Other cities and towns in Appomattox County

Largest first.

Pamplin City275

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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