Vinton, Virginia

Vinton population, 2020 to 2024

Vinton added 14 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +0.2%. In the latest year it moved by +2. Among 63 Virginia places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 39th; the median place changed by +1.7%. The median place of 5,000+ in Virginia has 16,562 people, so Vinton is 49% of it.

Vinton covers 3.11 square miles of land and 0.04 of water, for 2,591 people per square mile of land. The median Virginia place of 5,000+ has 1,784, so Vinton is denser than the typical town.

What county Vinton is in

All of Vinton's residents live in Roanoke County, which had 97,334 residents in 2024. Vinton holds 8.3% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Vinton

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Vinton by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the town's land: 24179. 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 Vinton is

The Census internal point of Vinton is at 37.274200, -79.888200. Richmond, the capital, is 135.9 miles E in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Roanoke, VA (97,912 people), 3.9 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Greensboro, NC, 81.6 miles away.

Daylight in Vinton

At 37.27° N, Vinton 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 08 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Vinton

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Virginia, measured between internal points. The closest is Roanoke, 3.9 miles away, with 97,912 people.