What is the population of Blackstone town?

Blackstone town has 3,341 residents on Census ACS 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, ranking #232 of 688 in Virginia.

What is the median household income in Blackstone town?

Median household income in Blackstone town is $58,479 a year, 25.5% below the national figure of $78,538.

How much does it cost to rent or buy in Blackstone town?

Median gross rent is $1,092 a month and the median home value is $185,600, so rent absorbs about 22.4% of median household income.

Is Blackstone town affordable compared with the rest of the US?

Homes cost about 3.2× the local median income here versus roughly 3.9× nationally, so Blackstone town is more affordable to buy in than the typical US market, and rent takes 22.4% of median income against the 30% cost-burden line.

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Blackstone, VA population, income and ZIP codes

Quick answer

The population of the city of Blackstone, Virginia (Blackstone, VA — Census place “Blackstone town”) is 3,341 residents, ranking #232 of 688 places in Virginia. Median household income is $58,479, the median home is worth $185,600 and median gross rent runs $1,092 a month. Looking for the Blackstone Virginia ZIP code list? 1 ZIP codes serve Blackstone, VA: 23824.

Population: 3,341Blackstone town residents
Median household income: $58,479Past 12 months, inflation adjusted
Median home value: $185,600Owner-occupied units
Median gross rent: $1,092Rent plus utilities, monthly
Median age: 35.7 yrsAll residents
Homeownership rate: 55%Owner-occupied households

Blackstone ZIP codes (Virginia)

Census ZCTAs whose delivery area overlaps Blackstone.

The Blackstone VA ZIP code list below covers 1 ZIP code. Open any one for its population, income, housing and rent profile.

23824

What the numbers mean in Blackstone town

Housing cost measured against local earnings.

A household earning the Blackstone town median would spend about 22.4% of gross income on the median rent. The 30% mark is the federal threshold for cost burden, so anything above it signals a stretched rental market. The median home costs 3.2× the median household income; nationally that ratio sits near 4.5×. Poverty affects 27.7% of residents and 55% of households own their home.

Source: US Census Bureau, ACS 2019-2023 5-year estimates · rates as published for 2019-2023 ACS 5-year

Blackstone town, VA in context

How this area compares with national benchmarks.

Blackstone town is a small town in Virginia, with 3,341 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #232 of 688 ranked by population — larger than 66% of them. The median age here is 35.7 years against 39.1 nationally, a slightly younger profile than the country as a whole. At this population the ACS sample is small, so the margin of error around every dollar figure below is wide — treat the numbers as a band, not a point, and expect them to move between annual releases without the place itself changing.

Households in Blackstone town earn a median of $58,479 a year, 25.5% below the national figure of $78,538 and 30% below the $82,986 median for the 383 Virginia cities we cover. The median is the midpoint household, not an average, so a handful of very high earners cannot drag it upward the way they distort a mean. Poverty reaches 27.7% of residents here, well above the 12.4% national rate, which is the single clearest signal in this dataset that median income here is carried by a narrow band of households.

The typical owner-occupied home in Blackstone town is valued at $185,600, 38.8% below the national figure and 36% below the $291,300 peer median, while median gross rent runs $1,092 a month, 22.3% below the national figure, or roughly $13,104 across a full year. A household on the local median income would put about 22.4% of gross pay toward that rent against the federal 30% cost-burden threshold, so renting here is within the standard affordability guideline. The home-price-to-income ratio works out to 3.2×, against roughly 3.9× nationally, so buying is easier here than in the average US market. 55% of occupied homes are owner-occupied versus 65% nationally, so the market leans more heavily on renters. Gross rent folds in the utilities a tenant pays separately, so it is closer to the real monthly outlay than a headline rent figure.

No figure on this page is estimated by us; each one comes straight from the published ACS tables for this area. Small-area estimates still carry wider margins of error than state or national figures, so check the linked ACS tables before relying on them for lending, appraisal or legal work.

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Frequently asked questions

Common questions about this area.

What is the population of Blackstone town?: Blackstone town has 3,341 residents on Census ACS 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, ranking #232 of 688 in Virginia.
What is the median household income in Blackstone town?: Median household income in Blackstone town is $58,479 a year, 25.5% below the national figure of $78,538.
How much does it cost to rent or buy in Blackstone town?: Median gross rent is $1,092 a month and the median home value is $185,600, so rent absorbs about 22.4% of median household income.
Is Blackstone town affordable compared with the rest of the US?: Homes cost about 3.2× the local median income here versus roughly 3.9× nationally, so Blackstone town is more affordable to buy in than the typical US market, and rent takes 22.4% of median income against the 30% cost-burden line.
How current is this Blackstone town data?: All figures come from the US Census Bureau American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year five-year estimates. At this population the ACS sample is small, so the margin of error around every dollar figure below is wide — treat the numbers as a band, not a point, and expect them to move between annual releases without the place itself changing.