Montrose, VA population, income and ZIP codes

Montrose CDP is a mid-size town in Virginia, with 8,624 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #142 of 688 ranked by population — larger than 79% of them. The median age here is 39.5 years against 39.1 nationally, a slightly older profile than the country as a whole. 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 Montrose CDP earn a median of $45,063 a year, 42.6% below the national figure of $78,538 and 46% below the $82,986 median for the 383 Virginia cities we cover. This figure covers the household, not the worker: two people on ordinary wages at one address outrank a single professional in the same table. Poverty reaches 25.5% 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 Montrose CDP is valued at $170,000, 44% below the national figure and 42% below the $291,300 peer median, while median gross rent runs $1,260 a month, 10.4% below the national figure, or roughly $15,120 across a full year. A household on the local median income would put about 33.6% of gross pay toward that rent against the federal 30% cost-burden threshold, so renting here is a stretch on median earnings. The home-price-to-income ratio works out to 3.8×, against roughly 3.9× nationally, so buying is easier here than in the average US market. 38.8% of occupied homes are owner-occupied versus 65% nationally, a renter-majority market, so rent figures matter more here than the home-value line. Rent is reported gross — contract rent plus tenant-paid utilities — which is why it runs above the advertised price on a listing for the same unit.

Montrose CDP is the unusual combination of expensive to rent and cheap to buy: rent takes 33.6% of median income while homes cost only 3.8× it. Where that pattern shows up, the gap is normally down to down-payment and credit barriers rather than price.

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.