Mount HermonVA
A town of 4,155.
Is Mount Hermon a good place to live?
Mount Hermon is a solid, middle-of-the-road choice. It grades C+ overall, ranked 194th of 249 in Virginia, with no subject far below average. Its best mark is schools: its schools rank ahead of 76% of Virginia towns. Its lowest everyday mark is in health: residents are less healthy than 66% of U.S. towns on CDC estimates. A typical home there costs about $212K, 4.2 years of the Danville area’s $50K median household income. 9.9% of residents are under 18 in Mount Hermon, below both the Virginia town median (23%) and the median of U.S. towns (22%). Only 22 of Virginia’s 372 towns score lower on walkability.
What makes Mount Hermon stand out
Where Mount Hermon beats most towns.
98% of working residents leave Mount Hermon for work
Where Mount Hermon’s working residents go each day. Line width shows the share.
Census LEHD 2023
How Mount Hermon grades
Each subject compared with towns across the country (schools within Virginia), ordered by how far Mount Hermon is from typical.
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Moving to Mount Hermon: who provides what
Mount Hermon is unincorporated, so Pittsylvania County and regional agencies provide most services.
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The data
Ordered by what stands out in Mount Hermon.
Mount Hermon sends most of its workers to Danville and beyond and has property taxes about half the Virginia norm, but it carries more natural-hazard risk than most of Virginia (mostly inland flooding).
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Mount Hermon’s grade for schools is an A−
Public schools: the Pittsylvania County Public Schools. Its one school is below. Enrollment at Mount Hermon’s public school: 618 students.
| School | Level | Students | Letter |
|---|---|---|---|
| Twin Springs ElementaryLargest public elementary schoolGrades PK–5 | Grades PK–5 | 618 | A− |
NCES · EDFacts · graded within VA on state tests and graduation
About two in five of Mount Hermon’s working residents commute to Danville
Mount Hermon has 448 jobs for its 1,693 working residents: even if every job went to a resident, most would still commute out.
The mean commuting time for Mount Hermon comes to 22 minutes. Only 2% of working residents stay in Mount Hermon for work; the rest commute out. Jobs based locally fell to 448 in 2023, 92 fewer than in 2013. The top destinations are Danville (42%), Chatham (8%) and Lynchburg (2%).
| Mount Hermon | Virginia towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Average trip to work | 22 minutes | 27 minutes | 25 minutes |
| Working residents who work in town | 2.4% | 5% | 8% |
| Median household income | $81,000 | $102,000 | $80,000 |
| Below the poverty line | 6.9% | 7.7% | 9.6% |
Where working residents work
Census LEHD 2023 · ACS
Four seasons and pleasant summers: that is Mount Hermon’s year
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
Mount Hermon’s grade for health is a C
Mount Hermon: 14% of adults binge drink. On the CDC’s 32 measures, Mount Hermon is ahead of Virginia on 1 and behind on 10. Among adults locally, 15% have diabetes and 15% report frequent physical distress.
| Mount Hermon | Virginia towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| High blood pressure (CDC PLACES) | 42% | 33% | 35% |
| Diabetes (CDC PLACES) | 15% | 11% | 12% |
| Frequent physical distress (CDC PLACES) | 15% | 12% | 14% |
| Sleep under 7 hours (CDC PLACES) | 33% | 36% | 36% |
| What stands out | Mount Hermon | VA |
|---|---|---|
| More adults treating high blood pressure | 80.5% | 76.8% |
| More adults with COPD | 8.8% | 6.2% |
CDC PLACES 2025 · modeled estimates for adults · CMS · HRSA
The biggest natural risk in Mount Hermon is inland flooding, at a moderate overall level
FEMA rates its natural-hazard risk higher than 90% of Virginia towns; that rating is what its A− for hazard risk is built on.
85% of Mount Hermon’s expected losses from natural hazards come from inland flooding. Its FEMA hazard score is 59 of 100.
FEMA National Risk Index · OpenFEMA
Homes in Mount Hermon sell for about $351K
The median property tax bill is $1,171, against $2,790 across Virginia, another input to its cost-of-living grade.
The rent at the middle of the market in Mount Hermon is $1,067 a month. The share of households in Mount Hermon who live in a home they own: 84%.
| Mount Hermon | Virginia towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Households that own their home | 84% | 68% | 73% |
| Median rent | $1,067 a month | $1,764 a month | $1,185 a month |
Census ACS, 2020–24 · Zillow Home Value Index · Redfin Data Center
Everything we know about Mount Hermon
Colleges nearby
2 within 15 miles of the center of Mount Hermon
About 6 of every 100 Mount Hermon residents are enrolled in college, about the same as Virginia.
About Mount Hermon
Census-designated place in Virginia, United States
Mount Hermon is a census-designated place (CDP) in Pittsylvania County, Virginia, United States. As of the 2020 census, Mount Hermon had a population of 4,057. Mount Hermon is located approximately three miles northwest of the city limits of Danville.
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- Area
- 5.4 sq mi
- Elevation
- 686 ft
Questions about Mount Hermon
Short answers, built from the data on this page.
Is Mount Hermon, VA a good place to live?
Mount Hermon grades C+ overall, better than 38% of U.S. towns and #194 of 249 in Virginia. It grades C for health and A− for schools. Walkability is its weak spot, with a D.
Is Mount Hermon, VA expensive?
The typical home is worth about $212,000, 49% below the Virginia typical home. Cost of living, which also weighs rents, property taxes and how many households pay 30% or more of their income for housing, grades C+.