Chatham, Virginia

Chatham population, 2020 to 2024

Chatham lost 26 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of -2.1%. In the latest year it moved by -6.

Chatham covers 2.03 square miles of land, for 589 people per square mile of land. The median Virginia place of 5,000+ has 1,784, so Chatham is less dense than the typical town.

What county Chatham is in

All of Chatham's residents live in Pittsylvania County, which had 59,410 residents in 2024. Chatham holds 2.0% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Chatham

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Chatham by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the town's land: 24531. 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 Chatham is

The Census internal point of Chatham is at 36.811900, -79.400100. Richmond, the capital, is 119.3 miles ENE in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Gretna, VA (1,276 people), 9.8 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Greensboro, NC, 54.9 miles away.

Daylight in Chatham

At 36.81° N, Chatham gets about 14 h 41 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 38 min around the December solstice, a swing of 5 h 03 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Chatham

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Virginia, measured between internal points. The closest is Gretna, 9.7 miles away, with 1,276 people.