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Bath County, Virginia

A county in Virginia, ranked 131 of 133 by population.

CountyFIPS 51017

Within Virginia
Bath County, highlighted, with the areas around it. Boundaries generalised from the 2025 Census cartographic boundary file; neighbour fills carry no data. The dot marks Warm Springs, the county seat, located via the 2025 Census Gazetteer.

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Population
4,076
-109 (-2.6%) since 2020
Land area
529.2
square miles. A further 1.0% of the total area is water
Population density
7.7
people per square mile, computed rather than published
County seat
Warm Springs
Seat of county government.
Established
1790
235 years ago
Largest city
Not available
No incorporated place lies within this county.

Sources: US Census Bureau, Population Estimates Program, Vintage 2025 Population Estimates, released 26 March 2026; US Census Bureau, Gazetteer Files, 2025 Gazetteer Files, released 10 September 2025; Wikidata (CC0), Wikidata. Retrieved 30 August 2026.

Satellite view

Aerial imagery of Bath County with its boundary drawn on top. A map shows you the shape; this shows you what is inside it, and which side of the line a place falls on.

Aerial view of Bath County, Virginia from the USGS National Map, with its boundary outlined
Imagery: USGS National Map, USGS Imagery Only, public domain, requested from USGS by your browser when you reach this point on the page, at 800 by 703 pixels. The boundary is the 2025 Census cartographic boundary file, reprojected to Web Mercator to match the imagery. You can also open the USGS National Map viewer.

Where Bath County ranks

Position among the 133 counties and independent cities of Virginia, and among all 3,144 US counties and county-equivalents. Computed from the figures on this page.

MeasureValueIn VirginiaNationally
Population4,076131st of 1332,879th of 3,144
Land area529.2 sq mi17th of 1331,981st of 3,144
Population density7.7 per sq mi132nd of 1332,654th of 3,144
Median household income$56,184105th of 1332,399th of 3,143

Full data for Bath County

Every figure below is attributed to the Census Bureau product it came from, with the vintage of that product.
MeasureValueSource and vintage
Population4,076Vintage 2025 Population Estimates
Population in 20204,185Vintage 2025 Population Estimates
2020 estimates base?4,205Vintage 2025 Population Estimates
Land area529.2 sq mi2025 Gazetteer Files
Water area5.4 sq mi2025 Gazetteer Files
Total area534.6 sq mi2025 Gazetteer Files
Population density?7.7 per sq miComputed: Vintage 2025 estimates divided by 2025 Gazetteer land area
Median household income$56,184American Community Survey 2020-2024 5-Year Estimates
Median home value$206,700American Community Survey 2020-2024 5-Year Estimates
Median age50.9American Community Survey 2020-2024 5-Year Estimates
Households1,822American Community Survey 2020-2024 5-Year Estimates
Housing units3,228American Community Survey 2020-2024 5-Year Estimates

Sources: US Census Bureau, Population Estimates Program, Vintage 2025 Population Estimates, released 26 March 2026; US Census Bureau, Gazetteer Files, 2025 Gazetteer Files, released 10 September 2025; US Census Bureau, American Community Survey, American Community Survey 2020-2024 5-Year Estimates, released 29 January 2026. Population density is computed here, not published: it divides the Vintage 2025 population estimate by the 2025 Gazetteer land area, which are two different Census products. Retrieved 30 August 2026.

How the population changed

The Census Bureau publishes the components behind an estimate, not just the total. For the year to July 2025:

Births minus deaths
-37
44 births, 81 deaths
Net migration
+57
More people moved in than moved out.

Source: US Census Bureau, Population Estimates Program, Vintage 2025 Population Estimates, released 26 March 2026. Retrieved 30 August 2026.

The 6 areas bordering Bath County

Ordered by the length of the border actually shared, which the Census Bureau publishes in its county adjacency file and which no other county reference presents.

Bordering areaStateShared borderPopulation
Alleghany CountyVirginia28 mi14,546
Pocahontas CountyWest Virginia22 mi7,602
Rockbridge CountyVirginia19 mi22,663
Highland CountyVirginia17 mi2,318
Augusta CountyVirginia16 mi78,940
Greenbrier CountyWest Virginia11 mi31,578

Source: US Census Bureau, County Adjacency File, 2025 County Adjacency File, released 15 September 2025. Retrieved 30 August 2026.

All 133 counties and independent cities of Virginia

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Data on this page last rebuilt 30 August 2026. How these figures are produced.