Tazewell County, Virginia: commercial real estate data.

Tazewell County

How many people live in Tazewell County

• Population, American Community Survey 2020-202439,624
• Households16,290
• Average household size2.43
• Median household income$47,313
• Median age45.0
• Median gross rent$795 per month
• Median owner-occupied home value$118,300
• Home value to household income2.5 times
• Annual rent as a share of median income20.2 percent
• Adults 25 and over with a bachelor degree or higher16.6 percent
• Adults 25 and over with a graduate degree5.7 percent
• Adults 25 and over28,710
• Population under 187,915
• Share under 1820.0 percent
• Population 65 and over9,411
• Share 65 and over23.8 percent
• Working age population, 18 to 6422,298
• Civilian labor force14,634
• Unemployment rate3.8 percent
• Labor force participation, adults 18 and over46.2 percent
• Rank by population among Virginia counties46th of 133
• Rank by population among US county-equivalents, Puerto Rico included1214th of 3,222

Tazewell County is the 46th largest of 133 Virginia counties by population. A median home costs 2.5 times median household income, which is affordable by national standards. Residents 65 and over outnumber those under 18, at 23.8 percent against 20.0 percent, which points demand at health care, services and single story product rather than schools.

US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, 2020-2024 5-year.

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Where are people moving to Tazewell County from?

• Tax returns filed by households arriving711
• People arriving, from those returns1,364
• Tax returns filed by households leaving694
• Net household movement17
• Adjusted gross income arriving$33.0 m
• Net adjusted gross income movement$2.8 m
• Average income of an arriving household$46,421
• Average income of a leaving household$43,463
• Largest single originMercer County (128 households)
• Largest single destinationMercer County (134 households)

Households arriving report $2,958 more average income than households leaving, so the migration is raising local spending power rather than just moving it around. The largest single source of arrivals is Mercer County, which is the catchment a retail or multifamily study should look at first.

US Internal Revenue Service, Statistics of Income county migration flows, 2021 to 2022 filing years.

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Employment by industry in Tazewell County

• Covered employment, annual average13,713
• Establishments reporting1,000
• Average annual pay$44,784
• Average weekly wage$861
• Retail trade, employment2,644
• Retail trade, average annual pay$30,466
• Accommodation and food services, employment1,164
• Accommodation and food services, average annual pay$20,968
• Manufacturing, employment1,085
• Manufacturing, average annual pay$53,715
• Construction, employment498
• Construction, average annual pay$53,990
• Wholesale trade, employment465
• Other services, except public administration, employment430

Retail trade is the largest private sector at 2,644 jobs, 19.3 percent of covered employment.

US Bureau of Labor Statistics, Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages, 2024 annual averages.

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Building permits in Tazewell County

• Housing units authorized by permit, 20244
• Declared construction value permitted$1.0 m
• Single family units authorized4
• Multifamily units authorized0
• Multifamily share of units0.0 percent
• Average declared value per unit$258,750
• Units authorized per 1,000 households0.2

Single-family homes are 100.0 percent of units authorized, so the pipeline is predominantly single-family.

US Census Bureau, Building Permits Survey, 2024 annual.

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SBA loan default and charge-off rates in Tazewell County

Do SBA loans in Tazewell County get paid back?

• Loans with a final outcome recorded2
• Paid in full2
• Charged off0
• Status: Cancelled2
• Status: Paid in full2
• Status: Exempt from disclosure6

Only 2 loans have reached a final outcome, fewer than the 30 a charge-off rate needs, so no rate is published.

Compare against the national and state SBA charge-off rates, computed the same way over resolved loans only.

US Small Business Administration, 7(a) FOIA release, FY2020 to FY2026 year to date, as of 2026-06-30.

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How large is Tazewell County?

• Land area519 sq mi
• Rank by land area among Virginia counties19th of 133
• Width, east to west37.2 mi
• Height, north to south27.9 mi
• Geographies sharing a boundary6
• Residents per square mile of land76
• Establishments per square mile1.72

US Census Bureau county boundary geometry, TIGER, adjacency computed from shared boundary vertices, TIGER county boundaries. US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, 2020-2024 5-year. US Census Bureau, County Business Patterns, 2023.

Feasibility studies

When a Tazewell County site needs a document a lender will accept.

The same data layer behind this page is the one the studies are written from. A study for a Tazewell County site starts with the figures you are reading, carrying the same source and period into the credit file.

• Population, American Community Survey 2020-202439,624
• Households16,290
• Average household size2.43
• Median household income$47,313
• Median age45.0

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Cities and places in Tazewell.

16 Census places lie wholly or partly in Tazewell County. 15 carry enough published place level data for a page of their own and are linked. The rest are named here and not linked, because the American Community Survey and the SBA record between them do not carry enough about them to write an honest page. A place existing is itself worth knowing, so nothing in the county is left out.

A further 1 of the county's 10 SBA 7(a) approvals are to borrowers in cities that match no Census place in Tazewell County, the largest being North Tazewell (1). Those are postal cities, unincorporated areas and cities outside the county, so no place row claims them; they are counted in the county total above.