Town · Rockingham County, Virginia

Timberville, Virginia

Timberville is a town in Rockingham County, Virginia, part of the Harrisonburg, VA metro area. It has 3,036 residents. Timberville, Virginia has a quality-of-life score of 37 out of 100 (low), ranking #9,913 of 15,651 US cities and towns. Within Virginia it ranks #313 of 375 cities and towns. It ranks best on hospital quality rating (high), child care cost burden (low) and property crime rate (low). It ranks worst on mental health providers (low), restaurants and bars (low) and dentists (low).

37Low

Quality-of-life score: #9,913 of 15,651 cities and towns
Virginia: #313 of 375 in VA
Population: 3,036 (2020-2024)
Land area: 1 mi²
Density: 2,272.3 /mi²
FIPS code: 5178736

Percentile-based score (100 is the best in the country) from 74 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.

Safety70#4,764/15,637
Economy34#10,350/15,631
Housing70#4,508/14,977
Health52#7,508/15,609
Healthcare12#13,711/15,650
Environment77#3,615/15,453
Education19#12,654/15,649
Infrastructure21#12,314/15,650
Community56#6,908/15,651
Leisure & amenities8#14,396/15,651

Strengths · Weaknesses

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

Hospital quality rating · high5.0
98/100Virginia 3.7United States 3.2Jul 2026Centers for Medicare & Medicaid ServicesRockingham County value
Child care cost burden · low20.0%
95/100Virginia 24.4%United States 27.9%2023 & 2024University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteRockingham County value
Property crime rate · low420 /100k
93/100Virginia 1,354 /100kUnited States 1,535 /100k2025Federal Bureau of InvestigationRockingham County value
Violent crime rate · low96 /100k
87/100Virginia 206 /100kUnited States 328 /100k2025Federal Bureau of InvestigationRockingham County value
Drug overdose deaths · low8.5 /100k
86/100Virginia 12.0 /100kUnited States 18.4 /100kMar 2025–Feb 2026Centers for Disease Control and PreventionModel-based estimateProvisional dataRockingham County value
Days with unhealthy air · low0.0%
84/1002025U.S. Environmental Protection AgencyRockingham County value

Weaknesses

Mental health providers · low34 /100k
3/100Virginia 284 /100kUnited States 348 /100k2025University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteRockingham County value
Restaurants and bars · low3.9 /10k
5/100Virginia 8.4 /10kUnited States 9.0 /10k2025U.S. Bureau of Labor StatisticsRockingham County value
Dentists · low22 /100k
5/100Virginia 76 /100kUnited States 75 /100k2023University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteRockingham County value
Pharmacies · low0.7 /10k
6/100Virginia 1.7 /10kUnited States 1.8 /10k2025U.S. Bureau of Labor StatisticsRockingham County value
Bachelor's degree or higher · low9.5%
6/100Virginia 42.2%United States 35.7%2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B15003
Drought exposure · high91%
6/100Virginia 70%United States 43%Oct 2025–Sep 2026National Drought Mitigation Center (University of Nebraska–Lincoln), USDA and NOAARockingham County value

Trends

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

PopulationRising
2,635 (2015-2019) → 3,036 (2020-2024)
+15%5 yearsCensus table B01003US 328,329,953 → 340,003,797
Broadband subscriptionsImproving
75.5% (2015-2019) → 86.7% (2020-2024)
+11 pts5 yearsCensus table B28002US 82.7% → 91.0%
Child poverty rateWorsening
14.3% (2015-2019) → 24.2% (2020-2024)
+9.9 pts5 yearsCensus table B17001US 16.8% → 15.5%
Home price to income ratioWorsening
2.9× (2015-2019) → 3.9× (2020-2024)
+32%5 yearsCensus table B25077US 3.5× → 4.1×
Bachelor's degree or higherWorsening
14.6% (2015-2019) → 9.5% (2020-2024)
−5.1 pts5 yearsCensus table B15003US 32.1% → 35.7%
High school diploma or higherWorsening
84.4% (2015-2019) → 79.4% (2020-2024)
−5 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, Timberville, Virginia improved on 0 of 14 measures with a comparison and declined on 1. 13 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

Price / income+0.9×2.9× → 3.9×

All 14 measures

Change of every measure of Timberville, Virginia between two periods about five years apart
Measure	Before	After	Change	Reading	Favourable vs peers
Average commute time	25.1 min2015-2019	27.8 min2020-2024	+2.7 min	Within the margin of error	22%
Bachelor's degree or higher	14.6%2015-2019	9.5%2020-2024	−5.1 points	Within the margin of error	7%
Broadband subscriptions	75.5%2015-2019	86.7%2020-2024	+11 points	Within the margin of error	65%
Child poverty rate	14.3%2015-2019	24.2%2020-2024	+9.9 points	Within the margin of error	12%
Effective property tax rate	0.63%2015-2019	0.57%2020-2024	−0.1 points	Within the margin of error	26%
High school diploma or higher	84.4%2015-2019	79.4%2020-2024	−5 points	Within the margin of error	6%
Home price to income ratio	2.9×2015-2019	3.9×2020-2024	+0.9×	Declined	25%
Income inequality (Gini index)	0.3842015-2019	0.4002020-2024	+0.016	Within the margin of error	37%
Median household income	$50,1792015-2019	$59,9092020-2024	+19%	Within the margin of error	32%
Poverty rate	12.8%2015-2019	17.1%2020-2024	+4.3 points	Within the margin of error	15%
Public transit commuters	0.0%2015-2019	0.0%2020-2024	0 points	Within the margin of error	60%
Rent as share of income	26.5%2015-2019	27.6%2020-2024	+1.1 points	Within the margin of error	46%
Rent-burdened households	38.5%2015-2019	40.8%2020-2024	+2.3 points	Within the margin of error	48%
Uninsured residents (under 65)	9.6%2015-2019	8.8%2020-2024	−0.8 points	Within the margin of error	57%

“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 Timberville, Virginia five years ago that improved

The places whose measures looked most like those of Timberville, 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, Timberville, Virginia itself moved −8.9 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

3,036 residents (±25)

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

1,099 households (±127)

Timberville, Virginia
Virginia share

Under $25k17%†189
$25k–50k26%†287
$50k–75k

Homes

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

Owners and renters

1,099 households (±127)

Timberville, Virginia
Virginia share

Own57%626
Rent43%473

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

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Getting to work

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

How people get to work

1,431 workers (±138)

Timberville, Virginia
Virginia share

Drive alone88%1,260
Carpool8.2%†117
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 Harrisonburg, 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 Rockingham County, the county holding most of Timberville's residents.

Rockingham County has 1,648 employer establishments, 190 for every 10,000 residents (0.76× the US rate of 248; 0.79× Virginia's), with 29,517 paid employees at an average annual pay of $54,854. The Census Bureau also counts 6,935 nonemployer businesses, mostly sole proprietors.

Establishments: 1,648; 6,935 nonemployers
Per 10,000 residents: 190; US 248 · Virginia 241
Paid employees: 29,517
Average annual pay: $54,854; US $68,342

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

Specialty trade contractors	196	22.6	1.46×More than typical	2,159	$58,600	611
Construction of buildings	111	12.8	1.69×More than typical	575	$56,925	323
Ambulatory health care services	103	11.9	0.57×Fewer than typical	1,058	$106,324	259
Religious organizations	97	11.2	2.01×More than typical	535	$21,736	—
Restaurants and other eating places	83	9.6	0.52×Fewer than typical	1,272	$20,653	15
Truck transportation	80	9.2	1.82×More than typical	480	$59,302	269
Services to buildings and dwellings	68	7.8	1.16×About typical	1,066	$32,699	483
Automotive repair and maintenance	63	7.2	1.44×More than typical	345	$49,241	132
Foundation, structure and building exterior contractors	56	6.4	2.04×More than typical	429	$60,310	92
Lessors of real estate	55	6.3	0.51×Fewer than typical	568	$53,979	808
Building equipment contractors	53	6.1	1.01×About typical	827	$59,489	103
Other specialty trade contractors	52	6	2.38×More than typical	592	$59,726	228

Rank places for an industry Open Rockingham County

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

Per-resident figures divide by the population estimate of 2023: 86,900 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 Timberville, 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

158.2KFY2017
362.8KFY2018
220.8KFY2019
66.5KFY2020
-831.4FY2024
-4.3KFY2025

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

Timberville, Virginia's figures are part of those of Rockingham County, VA ($9.4M 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: Timberville is mostly in Rockingham County.

See federal money in Rockingham 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.

Timberville, 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.

Rockingham County67100% of residents

Metro area

The metro or micro area the city belongs to.

Harrisonburg, VA68

Other cities and towns in Rockingham 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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