Bedford, Virginia

Bedford population, 2020 to 2024

Bedford added 196 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +2.6%. In the latest year it moved by +41. Among 63 Virginia places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 23rd; the median place changed by +1.7%. The median place of 5,000+ in Virginia has 16,562 people, so Bedford is 47% of it.

Bedford covers 11.09 square miles of land and 0.03 of water, for 705 people per square mile of land. The median Virginia place of 5,000+ has 1,784, so Bedford is less dense than the typical town.

What county Bedford is in

All of Bedford's residents live in Bedford County, which had 82,182 residents in 2024. Bedford holds 9.5% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Bedford

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Bedford by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the town's land: 24523. 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 Bedford is

The Census internal point of Bedford is at 37.340000, -79.514100. Richmond, the capital, is 114.9 miles E in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Lynchburg, VA (80,301 people), 18.0 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Greensboro, NC, 87.7 miles away.

Daylight in Bedford

At 37.34° N, Bedford gets about 14 h 44 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 35 min around the December solstice, a swing of 5 h 09 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Bedford

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Virginia, measured between internal points. The closest is Buchanan, 15.8 miles away, with 1,207 people.