Gate City, Virginia

Gate City population, 2020 to 2024

Gate City lost 27 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of -1.3%. In the latest year it moved by -7.

Gate City covers 3.98 square miles of land and 0.04 of water, for 507 people per square mile of land. The median Virginia place of 5,000+ has 1,784, so Gate City is less dense than the typical town.

What county Gate City is in

All of Gate City's residents live in Scott County, which had 21,388 residents in 2024. Gate City holds 9.4% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Gate City

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Gate City by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the town's land: 24251. 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 Gate City is

The Census internal point of Gate City is at 36.646100, -82.578400. Richmond, the capital, is 290.1 miles ENE in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Mount Carmel, TN (5,549 people), 7.5 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Knoxville, TN, 89.5 miles away.

Daylight in Gate City

At 36.65° N, Gate City gets about 14 h 40 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 39 min around the December solstice, a swing of 5 h 01 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Gate City

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Virginia, measured between internal points. The closest is Weber City, 1.8 miles away, with 1,236 people.