Rural Retreat, Virginia

Rural Retreat population, 2020 to 2024

Rural Retreat lost 13 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of -0.8%. In the latest year it moved by -3.

Rural Retreat covers 2.28 square miles of land, for 671 people per square mile of land. The median Virginia place of 5,000+ has 1,784, so Rural Retreat is less dense than the typical town.

What county Rural Retreat is in

All of Rural Retreat's residents live in Wythe County, which had 28,100 residents in 2024. Rural Retreat holds 5.4% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Rural Retreat

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Rural Retreat by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the town's land: 24368. 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 Rural Retreat is

The Census internal point of Rural Retreat is at 36.905100, -81.277200. Richmond, the capital, is 215.9 miles ENE in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Wytheville, VA (8,160 people), 10.9 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Winston-Salem, NC, 79.1 miles away.

Daylight in Rural Retreat

At 36.91° N, Rural Retreat gets about 14 h 42 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 38 min around the December solstice, a swing of 5 h 04 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Rural Retreat

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Virginia, measured between internal points. The closest is Wytheville, 10.9 miles away, with 8,160 people.