Dumfries, VA population, income and ZIP codes

Dumfries town is a mid-size town in Virginia, with 5,749 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #188 of 688 ranked by population — larger than 72% of them. The median age here is 31.3 years against 39.1 nationally, a distinctly younger profile, typical of places with students, military posts or a fast-growing family population. Places under 65,000 residents only appear in the five-year release, never the one-year file, so these values pool sixty months of responses and lag the current year by design.

Households in Dumfries town earn a median of $78,373 a year, essentially level with the national figure of $78,538 and 6% below the $82,986 median for the 383 Virginia cities we cover. Median household income counts every pre-tax dollar arriving at an address — wages, self-employment, Social Security, pensions, interest and public assistance — for everyone living there, so multi-earner households pull the figure up even where individual pay is modest. Poverty reaches 11.9% of residents here, below the 12.4% national rate.

The typical owner-occupied home in Dumfries town is valued at $303,700, essentially level with the national figure and 4% above the $291,300 peer median, while median gross rent runs $1,743 a month, 24% above the national figure, or roughly $20,916 across a full year. A household on the local median income would put about 26.7% 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 3.9×, against roughly 3.9× nationally, so buying is easier here than in the average US market. 76.5% 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.

Every value on this page is published directly by the Census for this area — nothing is modelled or interpolated. 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.