Metro area · Virginia

Staunton-Stuarts Draft, VA metro area

Staunton-Stuarts Draft, VA is a metropolitan area of 3 counties in Virginia, home to 129,692 residents. Staunton-Stuarts Draft, VA metro area has a quality-of-life score of 72 out of 100 (high), ranking #264 of 925 US metro and micro areas. Among metro and micro areas based in Virginia it ranks #5 of 12. It ranks best on flu vaccinations (high), poverty rate (low) and unemployment rate (low). It ranks worst on drought exposure (high), distance to an airport (high) and arts, entertainment and recreation (low).

72High
Quality-of-life score
#264 of 925 metro and micro areas
Virginia
#5 of 12 in VA
Population
129,692 (2025)
Land area
1,002 mi²
Density
129.4 /mi²
CBSA code
44420

Percentile-based score (100 is the best in the country) from 67 of 80 indicators, with the default “Explorer” weights.

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Location of Staunton-Stuarts Draft, VA metro area

Scores by category

Each category averages its indicators' percentile scores among US metro and micro areas.

  • Safety74#243/924
  • Economy81#178/925
  • Housing62#352/925
  • Health62#348/925
  • Healthcare63#338/923
  • Environment82#169/917
  • Education55#416/925
  • Infrastructure45#512/925
  • Community65#326/925
  • Leisure & amenities33#619/925

Strengths · Weaknesses

Indicators where Staunton-Stuarts Draft, VA metro area ranks highest and lowest among US metro and micro areas (score = percentile, 100 = best).

Strengths

Weaknesses

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.

Metro and micro areas like Staunton-Stuarts Draft, VA metro area five years ago that improved

The places whose measures looked most like those of Staunton-Stuarts Draft, VA metro area 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.

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).

Income

How household income is spread, not just the middle: each bar is the share of households in that income range.

Homes

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

Getting to work

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

Jobs and pay

What the largest occupations here pay, from the Bureau of Labor Statistics' Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics survey.

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.

Federal contract spending

Federal grants & assistance

Grants, loans (counted at their subsidy cost), direct payments and insurance, by fiscal year of the action (USAspending.gov, FABS). Reported apart from contracts and never added to them.

Counties in Staunton-Stuarts Draft, VA

Whole counties, as the U.S. Office of Management and Budget delineates the area. Federal spending below is the exact sum of these counties.

  1. Augusta CountyCentral county7578,940
  2. Staunton cityCentral county8826,801
  3. Waynesboro cityCentral county6623,951

Principal cities

The cities the area is named for.

  1. StauntonPrincipal city25,948
  2. Stuarts DraftPrincipal city11,780

Largest cities and towns

By population, for places with most of their residents in the area.

  1. Staunton25,948
  2. Waynesboro22,841
  3. Stuarts Draft11,780
  4. Fishersville9,484
  5. Verona4,165
  6. Weyers Cave2,744
  7. Dooms1,454
  8. Lyndhurst1,309
  9. Crimora1,252
  10. Harriston1,212
  11. Greenville1,183
  12. Craigsville1,104
  13. Jolivue1,075
  14. New Hope900
  15. Mount Sidney703
  16. Deerfield439
  17. Sherando281
  18. Middlebrook241
  19. Churchville132
  20. Augusta Springs56

Other metro and micro areas in Virginia

Areas based in Virginia, best score first.

Neighboring metro and micro areas

Places that share a border, best score first.

Similar metro and micro areas

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.

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