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Altavista town, Virginia: commercial real estate data.
Altavista town is a Census town of 3,342 people across 5.36 square miles of land, in Campbell County. Median household income is $51,349, 55.3 percent of occupied homes are owned, and the SBA record carries 4 7(a) approvals to borrowers here worth $7.2 m.
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Altavista
What Altavista is
- Census place typetown
- Land area5.36 sq mi
- Water area0.11 sq mi
- Population per square mile of land624
- County holding the largest share of its areaCampbell County, 100.0 percent
US Census Bureau, cartographic boundary file, places, 2024 vintage. US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Altavista
How many people live in Altavista
- Population3,342
- Median age39.0
- Population under 18746 plus or minus 177
- Share under 1822.3 percent plus or minus 5.3
- Population 65 and over656 plus or minus 163
- Share 65 and over19.6 percent plus or minus 4.9
- Households1,338
- Family households773
- Share of households that are families57.8 percent
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Altavista
Income and work in Altavista
- Median household income$51,349 plus or minus $14,922
- Per capita income$33,531 plus or minus $8,112
- Civilian labor force1,742
- Employed1,604
- Unemployed138 plus or minus 100
- Unemployment rate7.9 percent plus or minus 5.6
- Adults 25 and over2,330
- Adults 25 and over with a high school diploma or higher89.6 percent
- Adults 25 and over with a bachelor degree or higher27.7 percent plus or minus 8.0
- Adults 25 and over with a graduate degree3.6 percent plus or minus 2.2
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Altavista
Housing in Altavista
- Housing units1,600
- Occupied units1,338
- Vacant units262 plus or minus 114
- Vacancy rate16.4 percent plus or minus 7.0
- Owner occupied740
- Renter occupied598 plus or minus 152
- Ownership rate55.3 percent
- Median owner-occupied home value$142,900
- Median gross rent, monthly$910
- Annual rent as a share of median income21.3 percent plus or minus 6.3
- Single family units1,257
- Share single family78.6 percent
- Units in buildings of two or more217 plus or minus 128
- Share in buildings of two or more13.6 percent plus or minus 7.9
- Mobile homes126 plus or minus 97
- Median year structure built1958
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Altavista
How Altavista gets to work
- Workers 16 and over who commute1,456
- Commuting under 15 minutes683 plus or minus 272
- Share commuting under 15 minutes46.9 percent plus or minus 16.4
- Commuting 30 minutes or more591 plus or minus 181
- Share commuting 30 minutes or more40.6 percent plus or minus 9.7
- Drove alone83.0 percent plus or minus 20.5
- Carpooled8.7 percent plus or minus 8.0
- Public transport0.0 percent
- Walked0.0 percent
- Worked from home8.3 percent plus or minus 4.6
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Altavista
SBA 7(a) lending to Altavista borrowers
- Approvals4
- Gross approval$7,184,000
- Average approval$1,796,000
- Median approval$1,169,000
- Ninetieth percentile approval$5,000,000
- Largest approval$5,000,000
- Jobs supported84
- Jobs per approval21.0
- Loans with a final outcome0
- Paid in full0
- Charged off0
- Median term300 months
- Share on real estate terms of 20 years or more100.0 percent
- Share to franchises25.0 percent
- Distinct lenders3
- Distinct industries by NAICS4
A charge-off rate is not published here. only 0 resolved loans, too few to publish a rate, and a rate over that few outcomes would move several points on one loan.
US Small Business Administration, 7(a) FOIA release, FY2020 to FY2026 year to date, as of 2026-06-30.
Campbell County, not Altavista
Campbell County context, not Altavista figures
These are Campbell County figures. There is no place level equivalent published for any of them, so they are shown as the county backdrop and never as Altavista measurements.
- Establishments in Campbell County1,216
- Employment at those establishments, Campbell County17,025
- Covered employment, Campbell County18,480
- Average annual pay, Campbell County$57,594
- Average weekly wage, Campbell County$1,108
- Housing units permitted, Campbell County315
- Of those, single family, Campbell County258
- Average income of an arriving household, Campbell County$51,079
Every figure in this section is published for Campbell County as a whole and is not a measurement of Altavista. It is here because a county backdrop is what a credit committee reads a place against, and it is labelled so that it can never be quoted as the place's own.
US Census Bureau, County Business Patterns, 2023. US Bureau of Labor Statistics, Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages, 2024 annual averages. US Census Bureau, Building Permits Survey, 2024 annual. US Internal Revenue Service, Statistics of Income county migration flows, 2021 to 2022 filing years.
Coverage
What this page does not hold.
Every item below could be filled with a plausible figure. None of them is. On a page a lender may read, a number that cannot be traced is worse than an absence, so the absences are named.
- This place is not listed as a community in the FEMA Community Status Book, so no NFIP participation or CRS class is shown.
- Parcel level detail, zoning and flood zone at an address are resolved in the platform, not on this page.
SBA figures count approvals to borrowers whose address is in the place. They are not approvals for projects inside the place boundary: the tape records a borrower city and a project county, and those can differ.
Common questions
Altavista questions, answered from the record.
How many people live in Altavista, Virginia?
3,342, in 1,338 households. Altavista town covers 5.36 square miles of land, which is 624 people per square mile. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
What county is Altavista in?
Campbell County, which holds 100.0 percent of the place by area. Source: US Census Bureau, cartographic boundary file, places, 2024 vintage.
What is the median household income in Altavista?
$51,349. The median owner-occupied home is valued at $142,900. Median gross rent is $910 per month. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
How much SBA lending goes to Altavista businesses?
4 7(a) approvals totalling $7.2 m, across 3 lenders, median approval $1,169,000. These count approvals to borrowers whose address is in Altavista, not projects sited inside the place boundary, and they are approvals recorded in the release rather than loans disbursed.
Do SBA loans to Altavista borrowers get paid back?
No rate is published for Altavista. only 0 resolved loans, too few to publish a rate, and a percentage over that few outcomes would move several points on a single loan. The counts are shown instead.
Are the county figures on this page Altavista figures?
No, and they are labelled so. County Business Patterns, QCEW, the Building Permits Survey, BEA product and IRS migration are published for Campbell County as a whole and there is no place level equivalent. They appear in one clearly marked section as context and are never presented as measurements of Altavista.
Is zoning published for Altavista?
Not yet. The zoning layer is in build. Nothing on this page presents parcel level zoning.
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