Virginia 2013 population growth highlights fresh from the University of Virginia’s Weldon Cooper Center:
- Current population: 8.3 million
- The state population grew 74,531, less than one percent and the slowest rate since before the Great Recession.
- Still, that rate was faster than the national average, making Virginia the 14th fastest-growing state in the country.
- Population gains were concentrated (a) in Northern Virginia, and (b) in urban areas. Urban-core jurisdictions of Arlington, Fredericksburg, Harrisonburg, Radford and Richmond grew faster than the state average.
- Many counties outside the urban crescent, including all seven coal-producing counties in Southwestern Virginia, lost population.
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— JAB