Town · Brunswick County, Virginia

Lawrenceville, Virginia

Lawrenceville is a town in Brunswick County, Virginia. It has 1,272 residents. Lawrenceville, Virginia has a quality-of-life score of 9 out of 100 (very low), ranking #14,299 of 15,651 US cities and towns. Within Virginia it ranks #374 of 375 cities and towns. It ranks best on violent crime rate (low), public libraries (high) and effective property tax rate (low). It ranks worst on pharmacies (low), traffic deaths (high) and arts, entertainment and recreation (low).

9Very low

Quality-of-life score: #14,299 of 15,651 cities and towns
Virginia: #374 of 375 in VA
Population: 1,272 (2020-2024)
Land area: 1 mi²
Density: 1,104.8 /mi²
FIPS code: 5144520

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.

Safety39#9,518/15,637
Economy20#12,550/15,631
Housing40#8,940/14,977
Health6#14,651/15,609
Healthcare9#14,237/15,650
Environment62#5,896/15,453
Education26#11,544/15,649
Infrastructure11#13,898/15,650
Community14#13,480/15,651
Leisure & amenities0#15,640/15,651

Strengths · Weaknesses

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

Violent crime rate · low101 /100k
86/100Virginia 206 /100kUnited States 328 /100k2025Federal Bureau of InvestigationBrunswick County value
Public libraries · high1.3 /10k
82/100Virginia 0.4 /10kUnited States 0.5 /10k2024Institute of Museum and Library ServicesBrunswick County value
Effective property tax rate · low0.58%
81/100Virginia 0.78%United States 0.94%2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B25090
Child care cost burden · low24.0%
80/100Virginia 24.4%United States 27.9%2023 & 2024University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteBrunswick County value
Property crime rate · low647 /100k
80/100Virginia 1,354 /100kUnited States 1,535 /100k2025Federal Bureau of InvestigationBrunswick County value
Fine particulate matter (PM2.5) · low6.7 µg/m³
79/100Virginia 7.3 µg/m³United States 8.0 µg/m³2022Centers for Disease Control and Prevention · U.S. Environmental Protection AgencyBrunswick County value

Weaknesses

Pharmacies · low0.0 /10k
1/100Virginia 1.7 /10kUnited States 1.8 /10k2025U.S. Bureau of Labor StatisticsBrunswick County value
Traffic deaths · high48.0 /100k
2/100Virginia 10.7 /100kUnited States 12.3 /100k2020-2024National Highway Traffic Safety AdministrationProvisional dataBrunswick County value
Arts, entertainment and recreation · low0.6 /10k
2/100Virginia 4.6 /10kUnited States 5.5 /10k2025U.S. Bureau of Labor StatisticsBrunswick County value
Adult obesity · high47.6%
2/100Virginia 38.3%United States 38.2%2023University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteModel-based estimate
Median household income · low$33,611
2/100Virginia $92,116United States $81,6042020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B19013
Restaurants and bars · low3.2 /10k
2/100Virginia 8.4 /10kUnited States 9.0 /10k2025U.S. Bureau of Labor StatisticsBrunswick County value

Trends

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

PopulationFalling
1,557 (2015-2019) → 1,272 (2020-2024)
−18%5 yearsCensus table B01003US 328,329,953 → 340,003,797
Poverty rateImproving
45.0% (2015-2019) → 19.5% (2020-2024)
−25 pts5 yearsCensus table B17001US 12.3% → 12.1%
Unemployment rateImproving
23.7% (2015-2019) → 3.0% (2020-2024)
−21 pts5 yearsCensus table B23025US 3.7% → 4.0%
Broadband subscriptionsImproving
69.5% (2015-2019) → 88.2% (2020-2024)
+19 pts5 yearsCensus table B28002US 82.7% → 91.0%
Rent-burdened householdsWorsening
49.0% (2015-2019) → 66.9% (2020-2024)
+18 pts5 yearsCensus table B25070US 49.6% → 51.1%
High school diploma or higherImproving
74.8% (2015-2019) → 89.5% (2020-2024)
+15 pts5 yearsCensus table B15003US 88.0% → 89.6%

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, Lawrenceville, Virginia improved on 2 of 12 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.

Improved2

Poverty−25 points45.0% → 19.5%
Broadband+19 points69.5% → 88.2%

Declined0

No measure declined by more than its margin of error.

All 12 measures

Change of every measure of Lawrenceville, Virginia between two periods about five years apart
Measure	Before	After	Change	Reading	Favourable vs peers
Average commute time	22.5 min2015-2019	27.7 min2020-2024	+5.3 min	Within the margin of error	9%
Bachelor's degree or higher	17.0%2015-2019	18.1%2020-2024	+1.1 points	Within the margin of error	35%
Broadband subscriptions	69.5%2015-2019	88.2%2020-2024	+19 points	Improved	88%
Effective property tax rate	0.78%2015-2019	0.58%2020-2024	−0.2 points	Within the margin of error	58%
High school diploma or higher	74.8%2015-2019	89.5%2020-2024	+15 points	Within the margin of error	99%
Home price to income ratio	3.7×2015-2019	3.8×2020-2024	+0.1×	Within the margin of error	75%
Income inequality (Gini index)	0.5102015-2019	0.4402020-2024	−0.070	Within the margin of error	90%
Median household income	$26,3692015-2019	$33,6112020-2024	+27%	Within the margin of error	50%
Poverty rate	45.0%2015-2019	19.5%2020-2024	−25 points	Improved	100%
Public transit commuters	0.0%2015-2019	0.0%2020-2024	0 points	Within the margin of error	60%
Rent as share of income	29.8%2015-2019	32.1%2020-2024	+2.3 points	Within the margin of error	37%
Rent-burdened households	49.0%2015-2019	66.9%2020-2024	+18 points	Within the margin of error	11%

“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 Lawrenceville, Virginia five years ago that improved

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

1,272 residents (±339)

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 (±152)

Lawrenceville, Virginia
Virginia share

Under $25k38%†220
$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 (±152)

Lawrenceville, Virginia
Virginia share

Own35%†202
Rent65%†372

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

780 workers (±268)

Lawrenceville, Virginia
Virginia share

Drive alone64%†501
Carpool10%†79
Public transit

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 Brunswick County, the county holding most of Lawrenceville's residents.

Brunswick County has 254 employer establishments, 161 for every 10,000 residents (0.65× the US rate of 248; 0.67× Virginia's), with 2,356 paid employees at an average annual pay of $42,469. The Census Bureau also counts 894 nonemployer businesses, mostly sole proprietors.

Establishments: 254; 894 nonemployers
Per 10,000 residents: 161; US 248 · Virginia 241
Paid employees: 2,356
Average annual pay: $42,469; US $68,342

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

Truck transportation	28	17.7	3.51×More than typical	110	$46,045	69
Religious organizations	14	8.9	1.60×More than typical	33	$13,758	—
Specialty trade contractors	14	8.9	0.57×Fewer than typical	76	$42,618	56
Gasoline stations	11	7	2.15×More than typical	74	$29,784	—
Ambulatory health care services	10	6.3	0.30×Fewer than typical	138	$45,203	54
Services to buildings and dwellings	10	6.3	0.94×About typical	31	$40,774	92
Grocery and convenience stores	9	5.7	1.92×Too few to compare	95	$20,568	4
Restaurants and other eating places	9	5.7	0.31×Too few to compare	98	$22,765	3
Insurance agencies and brokerages	8	5.1	1.15×Too few to compare	16	$32,125	10
Landscaping services	8	5.1	1.45×Too few to compare	18	$31,833	44
Other specialty trade contractors	7	4.4	1.77×Too few to compare	34	$44,706	13
Building equipment contractors	6	3.8	0.63×Too few to compare	39	$41,821	18

Rank places for an industry Open Brunswick County

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

Per-resident figures divide by the population estimate of 2023: 15,786 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: Lawrenceville is mostly in Brunswick County.

See federal money in Brunswick 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.

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

House

Jennifer L. McClellanD-VA-4 · 100% of residentsWith party 99%Missed 0.0%

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.

Brunswick County18100% of residents

Other cities and towns in Brunswick 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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