Petersburg, Virginia

Petersburg population, 2020 to 2024

Petersburg added 660 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +2.0%. In the latest year it moved by +730. Among 63 Virginia places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 30th; the median place changed by +1.7%. The median place of 5,000+ in Virginia has 16,562 people, so Petersburg is 2.1 times that size.

Petersburg covers 22.72 square miles of land and 0.22 of water, for 1,499 people per square mile of land. The median Virginia place of 5,000+ has 1,784, so Petersburg is less dense than the typical town.

What county Petersburg is in

All of Petersburg's residents live in Petersburg city, which had 34,058 residents in 2024. Petersburg holds 100.0% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Petersburg

2 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas (ZCTAs) overlap Petersburg by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 23803, 23805. ZCTAs are Census approximations of USPS ZIP code delivery areas. The list comes from the 2020 ZCTA to place relationship file, so a city that annexed land after 2020 may reach into ZIP codes not listed here.

Where Petersburg is

The Census internal point of Petersburg is at 37.204700, -77.392400. Richmond, the capital, is 23.2 miles N in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Richmond, VA (233,655 people), 23.1 miles away.

Daylight in Petersburg

At 37.20° N, Petersburg gets about 14 h 44 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 36 min around the December solstice, a swing of 5 h 07 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Petersburg

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Virginia, measured between internal points. The closest is Colonial Heights, 3.9 miles away, with 18,674 people.