Virginia: State Summary
SNAPS data is derived from the 2000 U.S. Census and several 2003 CDC databases. For more information, see the Credits page.
State Health Department
- Virginia State Health Department: 109 Governor Street, Richmond
Population:
- Total Population: 7,078,515
- Males: 3,469,059
- Females: 3,609,456
Top 19 Languages spoken at home: (> 5000)
- English only (5,884,080)
- Spanish (316,295)
- French (39,805)
- Korean (38,985)
- Tagalog (32,885)
- German (32,575)
- Vietnamese (31,285)
- Arabic (25,215)
- Chinese (23,955)
- Persian (18,750)
- Urdu (14,660)
- Hindi (11,385)
- Italian (9,340)
- Russian (8,610)
- Amharic (8,090)
- Japanese (7,525)
- Kru, Ibo, Yoruba (6,715)
- Greek (6,220)
- Portuguese (5,015)
Top 5 Religions by Adherents:
- Southern Baptist Convention (774,637)
- Catholic Church (606,059)
- United Methodist Church, The (470,381)
- Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) (135,435)
- Episcopal Church (126,874)
Disabilities:
- Total Reported: 2,057,935
- Sensory: 199,790
- Physical: 495,064
- Mental: 297,524
- Self-care: 155,680
- Go outside home: 408,674
- Employment: 493,605
Grandparents as caregivers
Grandparents as caregivers: 59,464
Heating fuel:
- Total Reported: 2,699,173
- Utility gas: 918,956
- Bottled or LP gas: 138,595
- Electricity: 1,178,739
- Fuel oil, kerosene: 362,618
- Coal or Coke: 5,592
- Wood: 78,994
- Solar Energy: 791
- Other fuel: 7,872
- No fuel used: 7,016
Vehicles available:
- Total Reported: 4,787,112
- No vehicle: 321,727
- 1 or more vehicle: 4,465,385
Education Attainment:
- No School: 47,704
- No High School: 290,480
- Some High School: 526,426
- High School: 1,212,463
- Some College: 951,700
- Associate's Degree: 262,813
- College Degree: 835,011
- Master's Degree: 374,854
- Professional Degree: 106,700
- Doctoral Degree: 58,423
Household Phones:
- Households Reporting: 2,699,173
- Owners with phone: 1,819,243
- Owners without phone: 18,715
- Renters with phone: 822,274
- Renters without phone: 38,941
- Page last updated on Mar 12, 2007
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