BlairsVA
A town of 1,062, settled in 1927.
Is Blairs a good place to live?
The best of Blairs’ subject grades is an A for cost of living; the weakest is a D for walkability. Blairs’ median rent is $594 a month, below both the Virginia town median ($1,762 a month) and the median of U.S. towns ($1,185 a month). Only 15 of Virginia’s 370 towns score higher on cost of living. On the outdoors, just 33 of Virginia’s 372 towns do worse. Southside High School and Gosney Store is on the National Register of Historic Places. Blairs has fewer than 2,500 residents, so it gets subject grades but no overall grade.
What makes Blairs stand out
Where Blairs beats most towns.
Typical home value
| School | Grades | Students |
|---|---|---|
| Southside Elementary | PK–5 | 428 |
1,062 people, and everyone knows the way
In a town this size, neighbors are the best guide. Ask them anything.
How Blairs grades
Each subject compared with towns across the country (schools within Virginia), ordered by how far Blairs is from typical.
How TownRatings grades towns →
Moving to Blairs: who provides what
Blairs is unincorporated, so Pittsylvania County and regional agencies provide most services.
EPA SDWIS (Oct 9, 2026) · HIFLD + EIA-861 2025 · Census 2020 ZCTAs · NCES 2024–25 · registration: vote.gov, updated Sep 30, 2026.
The data
Ordered by what stands out in Blairs.
Homes in Blairs are worth about $201K, by Zillow’s estimate
The typical Blairs home is worth about $201,000, up 2.9% in a year, 51% below the Virginia typical home. 77% of Blairs households own their home, against 68% in Virginia’s towns and 73% across U.S. towns.
Typical home value
Census ACS, 2020–24 · Zillow Home Value Index · Redfin Data Center
Blairs’ public schools outperform 76% of Virginia districts
Its public schools are run by the Pittsylvania County Public Schools. Its one school is below.
| School | Level | Students | Letter |
|---|---|---|---|
| Southside ElementaryLargest public elementary schoolGrades PK–5 | Grades PK–5 | 428 | B+ |
NCES · EDFacts · graded within VA on state tests and graduation
Very low risk in Blairs, with inland flooding at the top
Expected storm and flood damage is lower than in 90% of U.S. communities.
FEMA National Risk Index · OpenFEMA
Health in Blairs trails 81% of U.S. towns
Blairs beats the Virginia average on 0 of 32 CDC measures and trails it on 16. 42% of Blairs adults have obesity.
| Blairs | Virginia towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Obesity (CDC PLACES) | 42% | 34% | 35% |
| Smoke cigarettes (CDC PLACES) | 18% | 12% | 14% |
| High blood pressure (CDC PLACES) | 40% | 33% | 35% |
| Frequent physical distress (CDC PLACES) | 15% | 12% | 14% |
| What stands out | Blairs | VA |
|---|---|---|
| More older adults who have lost all their teeth | 16.7% | 11.1% |
| More smokers | 17.5% | 12.2% |
| More adults with COPD | 8.3% | 6.2% |
CDC PLACES 2025 · modeled estimates for adults · CMS · HRSA
Blairs has 0.4 jobs for every working resident, so most commute out
Most working residents leave Blairs for work: only 1% work in town. The median household income in Blairs is $50,000. Since 2013, Blairs has lost 64 jobs, to 142 in 2023.
| Blairs | Virginia towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median household income | $50,000 | $102,000 | $80,000 |
| Working residents who work in town | 0.9% | 4.9% | 8% |
| Average trip to work | 28 minutes | 27 minutes | 25 minutes |
Where working residents work
Census LEHD 2023 · ACS
Blairs has four seasons and pleasant summers
Blairs has chilly winters and warm summers. July afternoons reach 88°, January nights drop to 28° and about 8 inches of snow falls in a winter.
Typical low → high °F
NOAA U.S. Climate Normals, 1991–2020
Blairs has set aside 0% of its land for conservation
3.8 miles of trail in 0 parks and preserves. Blairs’ trail density is 1.1 miles per square mile.
Trails & parks © OpenStreetMap contributors · Conserved land: USGS PAD-US
Everything we know about Blairs
Colleges nearby
2 within 15 miles of the center of Blairs
About 6 of every 100 Blairs residents are enrolled in college, about the same as Virginia.
99% of working residents leave Blairs for work
Where Blairs’s working residents go each day. Line width shows the share.
Census LEHD 2023
About Blairs
Census-designated place in Virginia, US
Blairs is a census-designated place (CDP) in Pittsylvania County, Virginia, United States. The population as of the 2010 Census was 916, a figure which declined to 841 at the 2020 census. Chatham-Blairs is also the name of a political district in south-central Pittsylvania County.
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- Area
- 3.5 sq mi
- Elevation
- 676 ft
- ZIP code
- 24527
Questions about Blairs
Short answers, built from the data on this page.
Is Blairs, VA expensive?
Not for the area. Cost of living, which also weighs rents, property taxes and how many households pay 30% or more of their income for housing, grades A.