BlairsVA
1,062 people live in this town, 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’ rent at the middle of the market 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.
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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.
A typical Blairs home is worth about $201K
77% of Blairs households are owner-occupiers. Typical home values rose 2.9% in the year to September 2026.
Typical home value
Census ACS, 2020–24 · Zillow Home Value Index · Redfin Data Center
Blairs’ public schools outperform 76% of Virginia districts
Public schools: the Pittsylvania County Public Schools. Its one school is below. Enrollment at Blairs’s public school: 428 students.
| 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
Blairs has a very low natural-hazard risk, chiefly from inland flooding
Households in Blairs have drawn federal disaster aid once, in 2003. Storm and flood damage is expected to run lower than in 90% of U.S. communities. Expected losses in Blairs break down as 63% from inland flooding and 8% from hurricanes.
FEMA disaster declarations and aid · FEMA National Risk Index · OpenFEMA
Health in Blairs trails 81% of U.S. towns
For adults in Blairs, the share who get no exercise outside work is 30%. 18% of adults in Blairs smoke cigarettes; 40% have high blood pressure.
| 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
The typical household income in Blairs is $50,000. Just 1% of the town’s working residents have a job in town. Between 2013 and 2023, jobs in Blairs dropped by 64, to 142. Half the trips to work are shorter than 10 miles.
| 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
Typical low → high °F
NOAA U.S. Climate Normals, 1991–2020
0% of Blairs is conserved land
Blairs’ density of trails comes in at 1.1 miles per square mile. 3.8 miles of trail.
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