LinvilleVA
With 484 residents, it is a town in Virginia.
Is Linville a good place to live?
Linville’s typical journey to work is 17 minutes, below both the Virginia town median (27 minutes) and the median of U.S. towns (25 minutes). No town among the 254 in Virginia we compare has a lower share of residents below the poverty line than Linville. Linville has fewer than 1,000 residents, too few for fair grades; the figures below are still real.
484 people, and everyone knows the way
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The data
Ordered by what stands out in Linville.
With 0.3 jobs for every working resident, most of Linville’s workers commute out
Half of commuters travel less than 10 miles. The top destinations are Harrisonburg (33%), Richmond (2%) and Staunton (2%).
Where working residents work
Census LEHD 2023 · ACS
Four seasons and pleasant summers: that is Linville’s year
Expect July afternoons of 86° and January nights of 24°, with about 19 inches of snow a winter.
Typical low → high °F
NOAA U.S. Climate Normals, 1991–2020
How healthy Linville is
Of 32 CDC measures, Linville beats the Virginia average on 4 and trails it on 1. Linville: 31% of adults sleep under 7 hours. Among adults here, 25% have been diagnosed with depression and 36% feel lonely.
| Linville | Virginia towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sleep under 7 hours (CDC PLACES) | 31% | 36% | 36% |
| Depression (CDC PLACES) | 25% | 22% | 23% |
| Feel lonely (CDC PLACES) | 36% | 34% | 33% |
| Frequent mental distress (CDC PLACES) | 18% | 16% | 17% |
| What stands out | Linville | VA |
|---|---|---|
| Fewer adults with diabetes | 9.7% | 12.5% |
| Fewer adults facing a utility shut-off | 5.6% | 7.1% |
| Fewer adults getting cholesterol checked | 84.6% | 87.5% |
CDC PLACES 2025 · modeled estimates for adults · CMS · HRSA
Zillow puts the typical Linville home at about $366K
Over the 12 months to September 2026, the typical home gained 3% in value. The share of households in Linville who live in a home they own: 87%.
Typical home value
Census ACS, 2020–24 · Zillow Home Value Index · Redfin Data Center
Top of a moderate hazard risk in Linville: inland flooding
Federal disaster aid has reached households in Linville once, in 2003. Expected storm and flood damage is lower than in just over half of U.S. communities. FEMA puts 63% of the town’s expected hazard losses down to inland flooding, and 14% to hurricanes.
FEMA disaster declarations and aid · FEMA National Risk Index · OpenFEMA
Everything we know about Linville
Shenandoah National Park and 14 more within 40 miles
Museums, parks, gardens and other places to visit around Linville. Close and well known come first.
14 mi National ParkShenandoah National Park1.7M visitors a year
33 mi ParkwayBlue Ridge Parkway16.5M visitors a year
22 mi CaveLuray Caverns20 mi Scenic driveSkyline Drive
9 mi Ski areaMassanutten Resort22 runs · 1,064 ft vertical
9 mi National forestGeorge Washington and Jefferson National ForestsPhoto credits
Shenandoah National Park: Image copyright 2005 by user G. Edward Johnson (user Lorax) and released under t, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Blue Ridge Parkway: Ken Thomas, Public domain · Luray Caverns: Paulo Ordoveza from Washington, DC, CC BY 2.0 · Skyline Drive: Image copyright 2005 by user G. Edward Johnson (user Lorax) and released under t, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Massanutten Resort: Arbogastlw at English Wikipedia, Public domain · George Washington and Jefferson National Forests: Aneta Kaluzna, CC BY-SA 2.5
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Moving to Linville: who provides what
Linville is unincorporated, so Rockingham 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.
100% of working residents leave Linville for work
Where Linville’s working residents go each day. Line width shows the share.
Census LEHD 2023
Colleges nearby
3 within 15 miles of the center of Linville
About 0 of every 100 Linville residents are enrolled in college, against 7 across Virginia.
About Linville
Census-designated place in Virginia, United States
Linville is a census-designated place located in Rockingham County, in the U.S. state of Virginia. It is located six miles north of Harrisonburg. As of the 2020 census, Linville had a population of 355. It is for the first time listed as CDP for the United States Census 2020. It contains the Linville United Church of Christ.
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- Area
- 0.6 sq mi
- ZIP code
- 22834
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