Mountain RoadVA
Home to 1,574 people, the town was settled in 1869.
Is Mountain Road a good place to live?
Mountain Road’s weakest subject grade is a D− for health. 4.6% of adults 25 and older hold a bachelor’s degree or more in Mountain Road, below both the Virginia town median (44%) and the median of U.S. towns (29%). Most errands need a car: it is less walkable than 98% of U.S. towns. Only 1 of Virginia’s 372 towns score lower on health. Mountain Road has 8 places on the National Register. Mountain Road has fewer than 2,500 residents, so it gets subject grades but no overall grade.
What makes Mountain Road stand out
Where Mountain Road beats most towns, and one thing worth knowing.
| Widest gap | Mountain Road | VA |
|---|---|---|
| More older adults who have lost all their teeth | 30.3% | 11.1% |
98% of working residents leave Mountain Road for work
Where Mountain Road’s working residents go each day. Line width shows the share.
Census LEHD 2023
How Mountain Road grades
Each subject compared with towns across the country (schools within Virginia), ordered by how far Mountain Road is from typical.
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Moving to Mountain Road: who provides what
Mountain Road is unincorporated, so Halifax 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 Mountain Road.
More of Mountain Road’s adults have diabetes than in the typical Virginia or U.S. town
No town among the 254 in Virginia we compare has a higher share of adults who get no exercise outside work than Mountain Road. For adults in the town, the share who have high blood pressure is 53%. Only 9 of the 254 Virginia towns we compare have a higher share of adults who sleep under 7 hours than Mountain Road. Among adults in the town, 24% smoke cigarettes and 47% have obesity.
| Mountain Road | Virginia towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fair or poor health (CDC PLACES) | 35% | 17% | 19% |
| Smoke cigarettes (CDC PLACES) | 24% | 12% | 14% |
| Obesity (CDC PLACES) | 47% | 34% | 35% |
| Diabetes (CDC PLACES) | 25% | 11% | 12% |
| What stands out | Mountain Road | VA |
|---|---|---|
| Fewer binge drinkers | 9.5% | 14.5% |
| More adults treating high blood pressure | 82.7% | 76.8% |
| More older adults who have lost all their teeth | 30.3% | 11.1% |
CDC PLACES 2025 · modeled estimates for adults · CMS · HRSA
Public schools in Mountain Road fall behind 89% of Virginia districts
Its one school is below. Public schools: the Halifax County Public Schools. 243 students attend Mountain Road’s public school.
| School | Level | Students | Letter |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sinai ElementaryLargest public elementary schoolGrades PK–5 | Grades PK–5 | 243 | D |
NCES · EDFacts · graded within VA on state tests and graduation
Top of a very low hazard risk in Mountain Road: inland flooding
Expected losses in Mountain Road break down as 51% from inland flooding and 12% from hurricanes. FEMA expects less storm and flood damage in the town than in 86% of U.S. communities.
FEMA National Risk Index · OpenFEMA
Compared with most of Virginia and the rest of the country, the median household income in Mountain Road is lower
For most workers, Mountain Road is a place to come home to: only 2% work in town. 14% of Mountain Road residents live below the poverty line. Employers in Mountain Road added 46 jobs between 2013 and 2023, to 143. Its mean commuting time stands at 19 minutes.
| Mountain Road | Virginia towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median household income | $41,000 | $102,000 | $80,000 |
| Average trip to work | 19 minutes | 27 minutes | 25 minutes |
| Below the poverty line | 14% | 7.7% | 9.6% |
| Working residents who work in town | 1.6% | 4.9% | 8% |
Where working residents work
Census LEHD 2023 · ACS
In Mountain Road, expect four seasons and pleasant summers
Expect July afternoons of 88° and January nights of 27°, with about 6 inches of snow a winter.
Typical low → high °F
NOAA U.S. Climate Normals, 1991–2020
Mountain Road keeps 2% of its land conserved
5.6 miles of trail. In Mountain Road, the density of trails is 0.7 miles per square mile.
| Mountain Road | Virginia towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Conserved land | 2% | 4.7% | 4.3% |
| Miles of trail per square mile | 0.7 miles per square mile | 0.7 | 0.4 |
Trails & parks © OpenStreetMap contributors · Conserved land: USGS PAD-US
Everything we know about Mountain Road
Colleges nearby
None within 15 miles of Mountain Road; the nearest are
About 1 of every 100 Mountain Road residents are enrolled in college, against 7 across Virginia.
About Mountain Road
Census-designated place in Virginia, United States
Mountain Road is a census-designated place (CDP) in Halifax County, Virginia, United States. As of the 2020 census, Mountain Road had a population of 1,009.
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- Area
- 8.6 sq mi
- Elevation
- 533 ft
Mountain Road’s neighbors
One town shares a border with Mountain Road.
| Town | VA rank | Overall | Cost | Safety | Schools | Health |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mountain Road | — | — | B | — | D | D− |
| Halifax | — | — | B− | — | D | D |
Mountain Road and Halifax have fewer than 2,500 residents, so they get subject grades but no overall grade. Mountain Road and Halifax report no FBI crime data of their own. Compare Mountain Road with a neighbor →
Questions about Mountain Road
Short answers, built from the data on this page.
Is Mountain Road, VA expensive?
Cost of living, which also weighs rents, property taxes and how many households pay 30% or more of their income for housing, grades B.