Blacksburg, Virginia

Blacksburg population, 2020 to 2024

Blacksburg added 699 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +1.6%. In the latest year it moved by -211. Among 63 Virginia places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 33rd; the median place changed by +1.7%. The median place of 5,000+ in Virginia has 16,562 people, so Blacksburg is 2.7 times that size.

Blacksburg covers 19.80 square miles of land and 0.03 of water, for 2,296 people per square mile of land. The median Virginia place of 5,000+ has 1,784, so Blacksburg is denser than the typical town.

What county Blacksburg is in

All of Blacksburg's residents live in Montgomery County, which had 98,998 residents in 2024. Blacksburg holds 45.9% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Blacksburg

2 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas (ZCTAs) overlap Blacksburg by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the town's land: 24060, 24061. 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 Blacksburg is

The Census internal point of Blacksburg is at 37.231300, -80.426700. Richmond, the capital, is 165.7 miles E in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Roanoke, VA (97,912 people), 26.0 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Winston-Salem, NC, 78.5 miles away.

Daylight in Blacksburg

At 37.23° N, Blacksburg gets about 14 h 44 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 36 min around the December solstice, a swing of 5 h 08 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Blacksburg

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Virginia, measured between internal points. The closest is Christiansburg, 6.4 miles away, with 22,632 people.