Culpeper, Virginia

Culpeper population, 2020 to 2024

Culpeper added 1,299 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +6.4%. In the latest year it moved by +409. Among 63 Virginia places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 6th; the median place changed by +1.7%. The median place of 5,000+ in Virginia has 16,562 people, so Culpeper is 1.3 times that size.

Culpeper covers 7.54 square miles of land and 0.04 of water, for 2,847 people per square mile of land. The median Virginia place of 5,000+ has 1,784, so Culpeper is denser than the typical town.

What county Culpeper is in

All of Culpeper's residents live in Culpeper County, which had 56,125 residents in 2024. Culpeper holds 38.2% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Culpeper

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Culpeper by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the town's land: 22701. 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 Culpeper is

The Census internal point of Culpeper is at 38.470300, -77.999800. Richmond, the capital, is 71.3 miles SSE in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Fredericksburg, VA (29,992 people), 30.2 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Alexandria, VA, 55.0 miles away.

Daylight in Culpeper

At 38.47° N, Culpeper 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 22 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Culpeper

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Virginia, measured between internal points. The closest is Orange, 16.6 miles away, with 5,210 people.