Grottoes, Virginia

Grottoes population, 2020 to 2024

Grottoes added 135 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +4.7%. In the latest year it moved by +37.

Grottoes covers 2.04 square miles of land and 0.04 of water, for 1,488 people per square mile of land. The median Virginia place of 5,000+ has 1,784, so Grottoes is less dense than the typical town.

What county Grottoes is in

All of Grottoes's residents live in Rockingham County, which had 87,674 residents in 2024. Grottoes holds 3.5% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Grottoes

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Grottoes by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the town's land: 24441. 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 Grottoes is

The Census internal point of Grottoes is at 38.269700, -78.825900. Richmond, the capital, is 91.1 miles ESE in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Bridgewater, VA (6,826 people), 11.1 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Richmond, VA, 89.5 miles away.

Daylight in Grottoes

At 38.27° N, Grottoes gets about 14 h 50 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 30 min around the December solstice, a swing of 5 h 20 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Grottoes

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Virginia, measured between internal points. The closest is Bridgewater, 11.1 miles away, with 6,826 people.