What is the population of Purcellville town?

Purcellville town has 8,974 residents on Census ACS 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, ranking #137 of 688 in Virginia.

What is the median household income in Purcellville town?

Median household income in Purcellville town is $162,981 a year, 107.5% above the national figure of $78,538.

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

Median gross rent is $2,086 a month and the median home value is $594,000, so rent absorbs about 15.4% of median household income.

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

Homes cost about 3.6× the local median income here versus roughly 3.9× nationally, so Purcellville town is more affordable to buy in than the typical US market, and rent takes 15.4% of median income against the 30% cost-burden line.

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Purcellville, VA population, income and ZIP codes

Quick answer

The population of the city of Purcellville, Virginia (Purcellville, VA — Census place “Purcellville town”) is 8,974 residents, ranking #137 of 688 places in Virginia. Median household income is $162,981, the median home is worth $594,000 and median gross rent runs $2,086 a month. Looking for the Purcellville Virginia ZIP code list? 1 ZIP codes serve Purcellville, VA: 20132.

Population: 8,974Purcellville town residents
Median household income: $162,981Past 12 months, inflation adjusted
Median home value: $594,000Owner-occupied units
Median gross rent: $2,086Rent plus utilities, monthly
Median age: 35.5 yrsAll residents
Homeownership rate: 89.1%Owner-occupied households

Purcellville ZIP codes (Virginia)

Census ZCTAs whose delivery area overlaps Purcellville.

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

20132

What the numbers mean in Purcellville town

Housing cost measured against local earnings.

A household earning the Purcellville town median would spend about 15.4% 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 3.6× the median household income; nationally that ratio sits near 4.5×. Poverty affects 4.8% of residents and 89.1% of households own their home.

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

Purcellville town, VA in context

How this area compares with national benchmarks.

Purcellville town is a mid-size town in Virginia, with 8,974 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #137 of 688 ranked by population — larger than 80% of them. The median age here is 35.5 years against 39.1 nationally, a slightly younger 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 Purcellville town earn a median of $162,981 a year, 107.5% above the national figure of $78,538 and 96% above 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 4.8% of residents here, less than half the 12.4% national rate.

The typical owner-occupied home in Purcellville town is valued at $594,000, 95.8% above the national figure and 104% above the $291,300 peer median, while median gross rent runs $2,086 a month, 48.4% above the national figure, or roughly $25,032 across a full year. A household on the local median income would put about 15.4% 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 3.6×, against roughly 3.9× nationally, so buying is easier here than in the average US market. 89.1% of occupied homes are owner-occupied versus 65% nationally, an owner-dominated market where rental listings are scarce and rent medians rest on a thin sample. 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 Purcellville town?: Purcellville town has 8,974 residents on Census ACS 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, ranking #137 of 688 in Virginia.
What is the median household income in Purcellville town?: Median household income in Purcellville town is $162,981 a year, 107.5% above the national figure of $78,538.
How much does it cost to rent or buy in Purcellville town?: Median gross rent is $2,086 a month and the median home value is $594,000, so rent absorbs about 15.4% of median household income.
Is Purcellville town affordable compared with the rest of the US?: Homes cost about 3.6× the local median income here versus roughly 3.9× nationally, so Purcellville town is more affordable to buy in than the typical US market, and rent takes 15.4% of median income against the 30% cost-burden line.
How current is this Purcellville town data?: All figures come from the US Census Bureau American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year five-year estimates. 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.