Dryden, VA population, income and ZIP codes

Dryden CDP is a very small community in Virginia, with 545 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #459 of 688 ranked by population — larger than 33% of them. The median age here is 36.9 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 Dryden CDP earn a median of $49,750 a year, 36.7% below the national figure of $78,538 and 40% below the $82,986 median for the 383 Virginia cities we cover. Household income here is measured before tax and pooled across everyone at the address, which is why it reads higher than typical individual earnings in the same area. Poverty reaches 22.2% 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 Dryden CDP is valued at $127,000, 58.1% below the national figure and 56% below the $291,300 peer median, while median gross rent runs not published a month. The home-price-to-income ratio works out to 2.6×, against roughly 3.9× nationally, so buying is easier here than in the average US market. 73.3% of occupied homes are owner-occupied versus 65% nationally, so the market leans toward owners. Gross rent folds in the utilities a tenant pays separately, so it is closer to the real monthly outlay than a headline rent figure.

With 545 residents, a handful of survey responses moves every median on this page. Compare Dryden CDP against its county rather than against national figures.

The Census withheld gross rent for Dryden CDP because the sample was too thin to publish at this geography. Those values were suppressed at the source, not lost in our dataset, and we do not model a replacement. Everything else on this page comes straight from the ACS 2019-2023 ACS 5-year tables.