Union HallVA
A town of 1,445, settled in 1826.
Is Union Hall a good place to live?
The best of Union Hall’s subject grades is an A− for schools; the weakest is a D for walkability. Only 23 of Virginia’s 372 towns score lower on the outdoors. Union Hall has fewer than 2,500 residents, so it gets subject grades but no overall grade.
Union Hall has grown 17% from 2010 to 2020
1,138 counted in 2010 and 1,328 in 2020.
U.S. Census 2010 & 2020 counts
How Union Hall grades
Each subject compared with towns across the country (schools within Virginia), ordered by how far Union Hall is from typical.
How TownRatings grades towns →
Moving to Union Hall: who provides what
Union Hall is unincorporated, so Franklin 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 Union Hall.
Union Hall’s typical home value is about $855K
96% of households live in a home they own in Union Hall. Values rose 3% in the 12 months to September 2026.
Typical home value
Census ACS, 2020–24 · Zillow Home Value Index · Redfin Data Center
Union Hall has 0.2 jobs for every working resident, so most commute out
Union Hall’s middle household income is $103,000, where Virginia’s towns sit at $102,000 and U.S. towns at $80,000. For most workers, Union Hall is a place to come home to: only 4% work in town. Also worth knowing: the typical journey to work in the town is 33 minutes. It had 89 jobs in 2023, up 28 from 2013.
| Union Hall | Virginia towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Average trip to work | 33 minutes | 27 minutes | 25 minutes |
| Below the poverty line | 4.4% | 7.7% | 9.6% |
| Median household income | $103,000 | $102,000 | $80,000 |
| Working residents who work in town | 3.7% | 4.9% | 8% |
Where working residents work
Census LEHD 2023 · ACS
Expect four seasons and pleasant summers in Union Hall
Summer afternoons peak near 87° in July, and January nights bottom out around 27°; snowfall runs to about 6 inches a winter. Union Hall has chilly winters and warm summers.
Typical low → high °F
NOAA U.S. Climate Normals, 1991–2020
Union Hall has a high natural-hazard risk, chiefly from inland flooding
Flood insurance has paid out on 3 claims in Union Hall since 1992. Expected damage from storms and floods is higher here than in 65% of U.S. communities. Of the losses FEMA expects in the town, 85% come from inland flooding.
FEMA flood insurance claims · FEMA National Risk Index · OpenFEMA
Fewer of Union Hall’s adults feel lonely than in the typical Virginia or U.S. town
The share of adults in Union Hall who report frequent physical distress: 15%. 13% of Union Hall adults report frequent mental distress, below both the Virginia town median (16%) and the median of U.S. towns (17%). Only one of the 254 Virginia towns we compare has a higher share of adults who had a checkup this year than Union Hall. The town beats the Virginia average on 15 of 32 CDC measures and trails it on 8.
| Union Hall | Virginia towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| High blood pressure (CDC PLACES) | 46% | 33% | 35% |
| Feel lonely (CDC PLACES) | 27% | 34% | 33% |
| Diabetes (CDC PLACES) | 16% | 11% | 12% |
| Yearly checkup (CDC PLACES) | 85% | 79% | 79% |
| What stands out | Union Hall | VA |
|---|---|---|
| Fewer older adults who have lost all their teeth | 3.5% | 11.1% |
| Fewer adults facing housing insecurity | 6.4% | 10.9% |
| More adults who have had cancer | 13.9% | 7.7% |
CDC PLACES 2025 · modeled estimates for adults · CMS · HRSA
0% of Union Hall is conserved land
10 miles of trail. Union Hall’s trail density stands at 0.6 miles per square mile.
Trails & parks © OpenStreetMap contributors · Conserved land: USGS PAD-US
Blue Ridge Parkway and 10 more within 40 miles
Museums, parks, gardens and other places to visit around Union Hall. Close and well known come first.
18 mi ParkwayBlue Ridge Parkway16.5M visitors a year
8 mi LakeSmith Mountain Lake
23 mi LandmarkNational D-Day Memorial
6 mi National MonumentBooker T. Washington National Monument22K visitors a year
23 mi MuseumVirginia Museum of Transportation
22 mi MuseumTaubman Museum of ArtPhoto credits
Blue Ridge Parkway: Ken Thomas, Public domain · Smith Mountain Lake: Jay White, Public domain · National D-Day Memorial: RebelAt at English Wikipedia, Public domain · Booker T. Washington National Monument: National Park Service Digital Image Archives, Public domain · Virginia Museum of Transportation: Warfieldian, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Taubman Museum of Art: O Palsson, CC BY 2.0
Everything we know about Union Hall
Colleges nearby
None within 15 miles of Union Hall; the nearest are
About 3 of every 100 Union Hall residents are enrolled in college, against 7 across Virginia.
1,445 people, and everyone knows the way
In a town this size, neighbors are the best guide. Ask them anything.
About Union Hall
CDP in Virginia, United States
Union Hall is a census-designated place (CDP) in Franklin County, Virginia, United States. As of the 2020 census, Union Hall had a population of 1,328. It is part of the Roanoke metropolitan area.
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- Area
- 18 sq mi
- Elevation
- 915 ft
- ZIP code
- 24176
Questions about Union Hall
Short answers, built from the data on this page.
Is Union Hall, VA expensive?
Yes. That is 12.4 years of the area's median household income ($68,761 across the Roanoke, VA metro area). Cost of living, which also weighs rents, property taxes and how many households pay 30% or more of their income for housing, grades C−.