Census-designated place · King William County, Virginia

Central Garage, Virginia

Central Garage is a census-designated place in King William County, Virginia, part of the Richmond, VA metro area. It has 1,864 residents. Central Garage, Virginia has a quality-of-life score of 53 out of 100 (moderate), ranking #7,397 of 15,651 US cities and towns. Within Virginia it ranks #255 of 375 cities and towns. It ranks best on math scores (high), child care cost burden (low) and property crime rate (low). It ranks worst on rent as share of income (high), public EV charging ports (low) and social associations (low).

53Moderate

Quality-of-life score: #7,397 of 15,651 cities and towns
Virginia: #255 of 375 in VA
Population: 1,864 (2020-2024)
Land area: 5 mi²
Density: 386.8 /mi²
FIPS code: 5114312

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.

Safety74#4,080/15,637
Economy76#3,725/15,631
Housing24#11,336/14,977
Health47#8,211/15,609
Healthcare28#11,228/15,650
Environment73#4,187/15,453
Education83#2,701/15,649
Infrastructure24#11,954/15,650
Community54#7,147/15,651
Leisure & amenities29#11,144/15,651

Strengths · Weaknesses

Indicators where Central Garage, Virginia ranks highest and lowest among US cities and towns (score = percentile, 100 = best). Values marked “King William 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 · high3.55
98/100Virginia 3.27United States 3.032019University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteKing William County value
Child care cost burden · low18.3%
98/100Virginia 24.4%United States 27.9%2023 & 2024University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteKing William County value
Property crime rate · low265 /100k
98/100Virginia 1,354 /100kUnited States 1,535 /100k2025Federal Bureau of InvestigationKing William County value
Voter turnout · high81.3%
97/100Virginia 70.7%United States 65.2%2024U.S. Election Assistance CommissionKing William County value
Job growth · high3.7%
96/100Virginia -0.2%United States 0.1%2026 Q1U.S. Bureau of Labor StatisticsProvisional dataKing William County value
Food environment index · high9.3
94/100Virginia 8.9United States 7.62019 & 2023University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteKing William County value

Weaknesses

Rent as share of income · high51.0%
2/100Virginia 29.4%United States 30.6%2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B25071At least this value: the publisher's top bracket is open-ended
Public EV charging ports · low0.0 /10k
3/100Virginia 6.2 /10kUnited States 7.6 /10kOct 2026U.S. Department of EnergyKing William County value
Social associations · low5.3 /10k
7/100Virginia 11.1 /10kUnited States 9.1 /10k2023University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteKing William County value
Distance to an emergency room · high13.7 mi
9/100Virginia 5.8 miUnited States 5.5 miJul 2026Centers for Medicare & Medicaid ServicesKing William County value
Primary care physicians · low27 /100k
10/100Virginia 76 /100kUnited States 76 /100k2022University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteKing William County value
Mental health providers · low78 /100k
11/100Virginia 284 /100kUnited States 348 /100k2025University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteKing William County value

Trends

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

PopulationRising
1,574 (2015-2019) → 1,864 (2020-2024)
+18%5 yearsCensus table B01003US 328,329,953 → 340,003,797
Rent-burdened householdsWorsening
0.0% (2015-2019) → 92.8% (2020-2024)
+93 pts5 yearsCensus table B25070US 49.6% → 51.1%
Rent as share of incomeWorsening
23.7% (2016-2020) → 51.0% (2020-2024)
+27 pts4 yearsCensus table B25071US 29.6% → 30.6%
Poverty rateWorsening
2.6% (2015-2019) → 12.2% (2020-2024)
+9.6 pts5 yearsCensus table B17001US 12.3% → 12.1%
Broadband subscriptionsWorsening
93.0% (2015-2019) → 84.1% (2020-2024)
−8.9 pts5 yearsCensus table B28002US 82.7% → 91.0%
Home price to income ratioWorsening
2.5× (2015-2019) → 3.4× (2020-2024)
+36%5 yearsCensus table B25077US 3.5× → 4.1×

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, Central Garage, Virginia improved on 0 of 11 measures with a comparison and declined on 1. 10 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.

Improved0

No measure improved by more than its margin of error.

Declined1

Rent burden+93 points0.0% → 92.8%

All 11 measures

Change of every measure of Central Garage, Virginia between two periods about five years apart
Measure	Before	After	Change	Reading	Favourable vs peers
Average commute time	42.3 min2015-2019	40.0 min2020-2024	−2.2 min	Within the margin of error	73%
Bachelor's degree or higher	27.6%2015-2019	22.8%2020-2024	−4.8 points	Within the margin of error	7%
Broadband subscriptions	93.0%2015-2019	84.1%2020-2024	−8.9 points	Within the margin of error	1%
Child poverty rate	0.0%2015-2019	0.0%2020-2024	0 points	Within the margin of error	42%
Effective property tax rate	0.81%2015-2019	0.52%2020-2024	−0.3 points	Within the margin of error	73%
High school diploma or higher	97.1%2015-2019	94.5%2020-2024	−2.6 points	Within the margin of error	12%
Home price to income ratio	2.5×2015-2019	3.4×2020-2024	+0.9×	Within the margin of error	27%
Income inequality (Gini index)	0.3142015-2019	0.3962020-2024	+0.082	Within the margin of error	7%
Median household income	$89,2682015-2019	$87,7502020-2024	−1.7%	Within the margin of error	6%
Public transit commuters	0.0%2015-2019	0.0%2020-2024	0 points	Within the margin of error	60%
Rent-burdened households	0.0%2015-2019	92.8%2020-2024	+93 points	Declined	0%

“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 Central Garage, Virginia five years ago that improved

The places whose measures looked most like those of Central Garage, 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, Central Garage, Virginia itself moved −28.9 points in standing on average over the same 9 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

1,864 residents (±492)

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

811 households (±222)

Central Garage, Virginia
Virginia share

Under $25k20%†160
$25k–50k15%†123
$50k–75k

Homes

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

Owners and renters

811 households (±222)

Central Garage, Virginia
Virginia share

Own76%†616
Rent24%†195

Biggest shift since 2015–2019: Rent (+13.7 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

1,170 workers (±421)

Central Garage, Virginia
Virginia share

Drive alone86%†1,012
Carpool6.3%†74
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 Richmond, 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 King William County, the county holding most of Central Garage's residents.

King William County has 359 employer establishments, 188 for every 10,000 residents (0.76× the US rate of 248; 0.78× Virginia's), with 3,036 paid employees at an average annual pay of $42,084. The Census Bureau also counts 1,270 nonemployer businesses, mostly sole proprietors.

Establishments: 359; 1,270 nonemployers
Per 10,000 residents: 188; US 248 · Virginia 241
Paid employees: 3,036
Average annual pay: $42,084; US $68,342

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

Specialty trade contractors	40	21	1.36×More than typical	153	$54,105	117
Restaurants and other eating places	27	14.2	0.77×Fewer than typical	376	$19,468	—
Building equipment contractors	21	11	1.83×More than typical	68	$49,515	34
Services to buildings and dwellings	19	10	1.48×More than typical	82	$37,549	109
Construction of buildings	17	8.9	1.18×About typical	24	$45,375	40
Automotive repair and maintenance	16	8.4	1.67×More than typical	69	$46,304	26
Plumbing, heating and air-conditioning contractors	15	7.9	2.38×More than typical	47	$44,553	24
Full-service restaurants	14	7.3	0.96×About typical	138	$19,587	—
Ambulatory health care services	12	6.3	0.30×Fewer than typical	127	$66,409	28
Lessors of real estate	12	6.3	0.51×Fewer than typical	24	$36,167	113
Gasoline stations	11	5.8	1.78×More than typical	70	$27,986	—
Landscaping services	11	5.8	1.65×More than typical	48	$39,292	46

Rank places for an industry Open King William County

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

Per-resident figures divide by the population estimate of 2023: 19,048 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 $240K of federal contract obligations were for work performed in Central Garage, Virginia: $129 per resident (US $1,994).

Obligations: $240K; −62% vs FY2025
Per resident: $129; US $1,994
Sole-source: 99%; US 30%
Single offer: 0.0%; 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

Department of the Army$181.8K76%
Bureau of Indian Affairs and Bureau of Indian Education$25K10%
Internal Revenue Service$21.1K8.8%
Department of the Navy$12.2K5.1%

Top recipients

PAMUNKEY INDIAN ENTERPRISES - PROFESSIONAL SERVICES (PIE-PS)$181.8K76%
FEDTRIBE LLC$56.4K24%
8AHUBZ MANUFACTURING LLC$1,8360.8%

Spending by fiscal year

371.5FY2018
553FY2019
1.2KFY2020
62.6KFY2021
104.1KFY2022
7.9KFY2023
403.4KFY2024
631.8KFY2025

Top industries (NAICS)

Management, scientific, and technical consulting services · 5416$181.8K76%
Computer systems design and related services · 5415$25K10%
Software publishers · 5132$21.1K8.8%
Aerospace product and parts manufacturing · 3364$10.4K4.3%
Commercial and service industry machinery manufacturing · 3333$1,8360.8%

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 Central Garage, Virginia, so they do not add up across cities.

Central Garage, Virginia's figures are part of those of King William County, VA ($7.4M in FY2026), never added to them: 3.2% of that total.

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

See federal money in King William 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.

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

House

Robert J. WittmanR-VA-1 · 100% of residentsWith party 98%Missed 2.5%

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.

King William County65100% of residents

Metro area

The metro or micro area the city belongs to.

Richmond, VA78

Other cities and towns in King William 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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