Bland, VA population, income and ZIP codes

Bland CDP is a very small community in Virginia, with 526 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #470 of 688 ranked by population — larger than 31% of them. The median age here is 26.9 years against 39.1 nationally, a distinctly younger profile, typical of places with students, military posts or a fast-growing family population. 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 Bland CDP earn a median of $68,333 a year, 13% below the national figure of $78,538 and 18% 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 12.2% of residents here, below the 12.4% national rate.

The typical owner-occupied home in Bland CDP is valued at $156,500, 48.4% below the national figure and 46% below the $291,300 peer median, while median gross rent runs $640 a month, 54.5% below the national figure, or roughly $7,680 across a full year. A household on the local median income would put about 11.2% of gross pay toward that rent against the federal 30% cost-burden threshold, so renting here is cheap relative to what people here earn. The home-price-to-income ratio works out to 2.3×, against roughly 3.9× nationally, so purchase prices are unusually low against local pay, the pattern in places where supply is plentiful and wage growth has been flat. 51.7% 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.

A median age of 26.9 means a large student or early-career population; income medians in places like this understate household resources, since many residents are supported from outside the address. With 526 residents, a handful of survey responses moves every median on this page. Compare Bland CDP against its county rather than against national figures.

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.