Is population growing or shrinking?

Refreshed annually
It shrank by 35 between 2024 and 2025. Changes in population reflect birth and death rates, immigration patterns, regional shifts, and even the overall health of the economy. Bland County, VA’s 0.57% annual decrease was primarily driven by deaths outpacing births.
In the decade between 2015 and 2025, Bland County, VA’s population shrank by 5.9%.

-35

population change (2024 to 2025)

-0.57%

percent change in population (2024 to 2025)
Since 2000, Bland County, VA’s population increased 5 out of 25 years. The largest increase occurred between 2022 and 2023, when Bland County, VA gained 77 residents. Its largest decline occurred between 2016 and 2017 when there were 122 fewer residents.

Bland County, VA lost 35 residents between 2024 and 2025.

Annual population change, 2001–2025

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What contributes to population change in Bland County, VA?

A county’s population is influenced by three factors:
  • Natural population change: If births outnumber deaths in a given year, natural population growth is positive. If deaths exceed births, it is negative. Between 2024 and 2025 natural population change was negative in Bland County, VA, with deaths exceeding births by 57.
  • Immigration: international migration directly into or out of a county: If more people move in than move out, population change from immigration is positive. If more people move out than move in, it’s negative. Between 2024 to 2025, Bland County, VA’s population change from immigration was positive with about zero more people coming from another country directly to Bland County, VA than leaving.
  • Domestic migration, moving between counties: Between 2024 to 2025, Bland County, VA’s population change from domestic migration was positive with about 24 more people coming from any other county in the US.

Between 2024 and 2025, natural change was the primary driver of population decline in Bland County, VA.

Components of population change from previous year, 2011–2025

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