Ashland, Virginia

Ashland population, 2020 to 2024

Ashland added 307 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +4.0%. In the latest year it moved by +67. Among 63 Virginia places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 11th; the median place changed by +1.7%. The median place of 5,000+ in Virginia has 16,562 people, so Ashland is 48% of it.

Ashland covers 7.20 square miles of land and 0.03 of water, for 1,099 people per square mile of land. The median Virginia place of 5,000+ has 1,784, so Ashland is less dense than the typical town.

What county Ashland is in

All of Ashland's residents live in Hanover County, which had 115,309 residents in 2024. Ashland holds 6.9% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Ashland

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Ashland by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the town's land: 23005. ZCTAs are Census approximations of USPS ZIP code delivery areas. The list comes from the 2020 ZCTA to place relationship file, so a town that annexed land after 2020 may reach into ZIP codes not listed here.

Where Ashland is

The Census internal point of Ashland is at 37.760400, -77.472400. Richmond, the capital, is 15.4 miles S in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Richmond, VA (233,655 people), 15.8 miles away.

Daylight in Ashland

At 37.76° N, Ashland gets about 14 h 47 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 33 min around the December solstice, a swing of 5 h 14 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Ashland

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Virginia, measured between internal points. The closest is Richmond, 15.8 miles away, with 233,655 people.