Town · Pittsylvania County, Virginia

Hurt, Virginia

Hurt is a town in Pittsylvania County, Virginia, part of the Danville, VA metro area. It has 1,361 residents. Hurt, Virginia has a quality-of-life score of 36 out of 100 (low), ranking #10,039 of 15,651 US cities and towns. Within Virginia it ranks #317 of 375 cities and towns. It ranks best on median Air Quality Index (low), reading scores (high) and math scores (high). It ranks worst on primary care physicians (low), dentists (low) and broadband subscriptions (low).

36Low

Quality-of-life score: #10,039 of 15,651 cities and towns
Virginia: #317 of 375 in VA
Population: 1,361 (2020-2024)
Land area: 3 mi²
Density: 391.5 /mi²
FIPS code: 5139224

Percentile-based score (100 is the best in the country) from 75 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.

Safety53#7,358/15,637
Economy33#10,461/15,631
Housing83#2,512/14,977
Health14#13,409/15,609
Healthcare12#13,850/15,650
Environment92#1,194/15,453
Education80#3,177/15,649
Infrastructure1#15,561/15,650
Community42#9,075/15,651
Leisure & amenities3#15,243/15,651

Strengths · Weaknesses

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

Median Air Quality Index · low3
100/1002022U.S. Environmental Protection AgencyPittsylvania County value
Reading scores · high3.37
92/100Virginia 3.16United States 3.052019University of Wisconsin Population Health InstitutePittsylvania County value
Math scores · high3.41
91/100Virginia 3.27United States 3.032019University of Wisconsin Population Health InstitutePittsylvania County value
Violent crime rate · low78 /100k
91/100Virginia 206 /100kUnited States 328 /100k2025Federal Bureau of InvestigationPittsylvania County value
Property crime rate · low455 /100k
91/100Virginia 1,354 /100kUnited States 1,535 /100k2025Federal Bureau of InvestigationPittsylvania County value
Social associations · high14.3 /10k
88/100Virginia 11.1 /10kUnited States 9.1 /10k2023University of Wisconsin Population Health InstitutePittsylvania County value

Weaknesses

Primary care physicians · low8 /100k
1/100Virginia 76 /100kUnited States 76 /100k2022University of Wisconsin Population Health InstitutePittsylvania County value
Dentists · low8 /100k
1/100Virginia 76 /100kUnited States 75 /100k2023University of Wisconsin Population Health InstitutePittsylvania County value
Broadband subscriptions · low74.2%
1/100Virginia 91.0%United States 91.0%2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B28002
Job growth · low-5.3%
1/100Virginia -0.2%United States 0.1%2026 Q1U.S. Bureau of Labor StatisticsProvisional dataPittsylvania County value
Mental health providers · low30 /100k
2/100Virginia 284 /100kUnited States 348 /100k2025University of Wisconsin Population Health InstitutePittsylvania County value
Restaurants and bars · low3.5 /10k
3/100Virginia 8.4 /10kUnited States 9.0 /10k2025U.S. Bureau of Labor StatisticsPittsylvania County value

Trends

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

PopulationFalling
1,451 (2015-2019) → 1,361 (2020-2024)
−6.2%5 yearsCensus table B01003US 328,329,953 → 340,003,797
Child poverty rateWorsening
19.9% (2015-2019) → 33.8% (2020-2024)
+14 pts5 yearsCensus table B17001US 16.8% → 15.5%
Rent-burdened householdsImproving
39.6% (2015-2019) → 29.0% (2020-2024)
−11 pts5 yearsCensus table B25070US 49.6% → 51.1%
Broadband subscriptionsImproving
66.4% (2015-2019) → 74.2% (2020-2024)
+7.9 pts5 yearsCensus table B28002US 82.7% → 91.0%
Median household incomeImproving
$42,827 (2015-2019) → $59,000 (2020-2024)
+38%5 yearsCensus table B19013US $65,712 → $81,604
Poverty rateWorsening
10.2% (2015-2019) → 16.7% (2020-2024)
+6.5 pts5 yearsCensus table B17001US 12.3% → 12.1%

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, Hurt, Virginia improved on 1 of 11 measures with a comparison and declined on 0. 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.

Improved1

Broadband+7.9 points66.4% → 74.2%

Declined0

No measure declined by more than its margin of error.

All 11 measures

Change of every measure of Hurt, Virginia between two periods about five years apart
Measure	Before	After	Change	Reading	Favourable vs peers
Average commute time	27.8 min2015-2019	28.0 min2020-2024	+0.2 min	Within the margin of error	45%
Bachelor's degree or higher	17.0%2015-2019	17.6%2020-2024	+0.6 points	Within the margin of error	32%
Broadband subscriptions	66.4%2015-2019	74.2%2020-2024	+7.9 points	Improved	49%
Effective property tax rate	0.65%2015-2019	0.64%2020-2024	−0 points	Within the margin of error	18%
High school diploma or higher	84.3%2015-2019	89.6%2020-2024	+5.3 points	Within the margin of error	83%
Home price to income ratio	2.7×2015-2019	2.6×2020-2024	−0.2×	Within the margin of error	85%
Income inequality (Gini index)	0.4392015-2019	0.3942020-2024	−0.044	Within the margin of error	82%
Median household income	$42,8272015-2019	$59,0002020-2024	+38%	Within the margin of error	70%
Poverty rate	10.2%2015-2019	16.7%2020-2024	+6.5 points	Within the margin of error	9%
Public transit commuters	0.0%2015-2019	0.0%2020-2024	0 points	Within the margin of error	60%
Rent as share of income	24.5%2015-2019	20.5%2020-2024	−4 points	Within the margin of error	79%

“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 Hurt, Virginia five years ago that improved

The places whose measures looked most like those of Hurt, 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, Hurt, Virginia itself moved +7 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

1,361 residents (±252)

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

574 households (±101)

Hurt, Virginia
Virginia share

Under $25k21%†122
$25k–50k24%†140
$50k–75k

Homes

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

Owners and renters

574 households (±101)

Hurt, Virginia
Virginia share

Own76%439
Rent24%†135

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

573 workers (±143)

Hurt, Virginia
Virginia share

Drive alone86%490
Carpool10%†58
Public transit0.0%0

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 Danville, 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 Pittsylvania County, the county holding most of Hurt's residents.

Pittsylvania County has 879 employer establishments, 147 for every 10,000 residents (0.59× the US rate of 248; 0.61× Virginia's), with 8,947 paid employees at an average annual pay of $43,805. The Census Bureau also counts 3,761 nonemployer businesses, mostly sole proprietors.

Establishments: 879; 3,761 nonemployers
Per 10,000 residents: 147; US 248 · Virginia 241
Paid employees: 8,947
Average annual pay: $43,805; US $68,342

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

Specialty trade contractors	90	15.1	0.97×About typical	562	$50,180	306
Religious organizations	82	13.7	2.48×More than typical	259	$16,853	—
Restaurants and other eating places	45	7.5	0.41×Fewer than typical	522	$18,243	20
Construction of buildings	44	7.4	0.98×About typical	315	$44,244	130
Ambulatory health care services	42	7	0.34×Fewer than typical	518	$51,483	180
Building equipment contractors	41	6.9	1.14×About typical	342	$51,518	60
Truck transportation	39	6.5	1.29×More than typical	271	$50,125	81
Services to buildings and dwellings	34	5.7	0.85×About typical	159	$39,623	378
Automotive repair and maintenance	29	4.9	0.97×About typical	116	$41,172	93
Grocery and convenience stores	25	4.2	1.41×More than typical	354	$19,777	11
Lessors of real estate	25	4.2	0.34×Fewer than typical	42	$27,905	308
Full-service restaurants	24	4	0.52×Fewer than typical	215	$18,526	8

Rank places for an industry Open Pittsylvania County

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

Per-resident figures divide by the population estimate of 2023: 59,652 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

No federal contract obligations recorded here in FY2026.

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

See federal money in Pittsylvania 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.

Hurt, 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.

Pittsylvania County37100% of residents

Metro area

The metro or micro area the city belongs to.

Danville, VA24

Other cities and towns in Pittsylvania 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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