Virginia · Census place 5131936

Gordonsville, Virginia

Gordonsville is a town in Orange County, Virginia with an estimated 1,509 residents on July 1, 2024. It is the 111th largest of 137 incorporated places of 1,000+ people in the state.

Population 2024
1,509
#111 of 137 in Virginia
Change since 2020
+6.7%
+95 people
Land area
1.0 sq mi
Density
1,588 / sq mi
State median 1,784
Orange pin: Gordonsville. Shaded: its county. Dark pin: Richmond.

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Gordonsville population, 2020 to 2024

Gordonsville added 95 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +6.7%. In the latest year it moved by +18.

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July 1 estimates. The April 2020 estimates base was 1,406. The axis starts above zero so yearly changes are visible.

Gordonsville covers 0.95 square miles of land, for 1,588 people per square mile of land. The median Virginia place of 5,000+ has 1,784, so Gordonsville is less dense than the typical town.

What county Gordonsville is in

All of Gordonsville's residents live in Orange County, which had 38,986 residents in 2024. Gordonsville holds 3.9% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Gordonsville

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Gordonsville by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the town's land: 22942. 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 Gordonsville is

The Census internal point of Gordonsville is at 38.135600, -78.187400. Richmond, the capital, is 58.2 miles SE in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Orange, VA (5,210 people), 8.8 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Richmond, VA, 57.0 miles away.

Internal point

Decimal
38.135600, -78.187400
DMS
38°08'8.16"N 78°11'14.64"W
UTM
17N 746507.1E 4224598.3N
Geohash
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Plus code
87C34RP7+62

Daylight in Gordonsville

At 38.14° N, Gordonsville gets about 14 h 49 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 31 min around the December solstice, a swing of 5 h 18 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Gordonsville

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Virginia, measured between internal points. The closest is Orange, 8.7 miles away, with 5,210 people.

Questions people ask

What is the population of Gordonsville, VA?

1,509 on July 1, 2024, in the Census Vintage 2024 estimates. That is up 95 (6.7%) from 1,414 in July 2020.

What county is Gordonsville in?

Orange County. All of its residents live in that county.

What ZIP codes cover Gordonsville?

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area overlaps it by at least 10% of either area: 22942.

How far is Gordonsville from Richmond?

58.2 miles (93.7 km) in a straight line, heading SE from Gordonsville.

What is the nearest larger city to Gordonsville?

Orange, VA, with 5,210 residents, 8.8 miles away between internal points.

Sources and data as of

Data as of: Census Vintage 2024 subcounty estimates (July 1, 2024), 2024 Gazetteer places, 2020 ZCTA to place relationship file.

  1. 01Census Vintage 2024 subcounty population estimates
  2. 02Census 2024 Gazetteer, places
  3. 03Census 2020 ZCTA to place relationship file
  4. 04Census 2024 cartographic boundary file, counties (1:5,000,000)

How every number is computed: methodology. Spotted a wrong figure? Report an error.