Bridgewater, Virginia

Bridgewater population, 2020 to 2024

Bridgewater added 232 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +3.5%. In the latest year it moved by +62. Among 63 Virginia places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 14th; the median place changed by +1.7%. The median place of 5,000+ in Virginia has 16,562 people, so Bridgewater is 41% of it.

Bridgewater covers 2.52 square miles of land, for 2,709 people per square mile of land. The median Virginia place of 5,000+ has 1,784, so Bridgewater is denser than the typical town.

What county Bridgewater is in

All of Bridgewater's residents live in Rockingham County, which had 87,674 residents in 2024. Bridgewater holds 7.8% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Bridgewater

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Bridgewater by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the town's land: 22812. 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 Bridgewater is

The Census internal point of Bridgewater is at 38.388500, -78.964500. Richmond, the capital, is 102.0 miles SE in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Harrisonburg, VA (51,164 people), 6.0 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Richmond, VA, 100.4 miles away.

Daylight in Bridgewater

At 38.39° N, Bridgewater gets about 14 h 51 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 29 min around the December solstice, a swing of 5 h 21 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Bridgewater

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Virginia, measured between internal points. The closest is Dayton, 2.4 miles away, with 1,756 people.