Rocky Mount, VA Facts, Population, Income, Demographics, Economy

Population (total): Population in 2017: 4,764 (92% urban, 8% rural).

Population (male): 2,248

Population (female): 2,516

Poverty (overall): Percentage of residents living in poverty in 2017: 30.1%

Sex Offenders: According to our research of Virginia and other state lists, there were 61 registered sex offenders living in Rocky Mount, Virginia as of January 16, 2021. The ratio of all residents to sex offenders in Rocky Mount is 79 to 1.>

Ancestries: Ancestries: American (29.3%), English (6.2%), German (4.0%), Scotch-Irish (1.8%), Scottish (1.7%).

Elevation: 1200 feet

Land Area: 4.59 square miles.

Population Density:

Median Incomes:
      Estimated median household income in 2017: $41,267 (it was $26,927 in 2000)
      Estimated per capita income in 2017: $25,311 (it was $16,207 in 2000)
      Estimated median house or condo value in 2017: $184,338 (it was $80,100 in 2000) Rocky Mount:$184,338VA:$273,400

The area's major cash crop both before and after the Civil War was tobacco. In 1873, Rocky Mount incorporated as a town and absorbed the smaller village of Mount Pleasant, creating the its present boundaries. Former court clerk Robert Scott became the first mayor. Rocky Mount's population was about 400 people in 1870, 600 in 1897 and about 1100 in 1920. In 1880, the Franklin and Pittsylvania Railroad connected Rocky Mount to Danville and Lynchburg via Pittsylvania County, Virginia, but the more important railroad line would not arrive for another dozen years, until three years after most of Rocky Mount burned in 1889. Industrial and commercial development began as Rocky Mount became a stop on the twisty railroad line between Roanoke, Virginia and Winston-Salem, North Carolina (nicknamed the "Pumpkin Vine", which became the Norfolk and Western Railway after 1896). The Cannaday Mills (a gristmill and box factory) was built in 1898 . Schoolteacher turned merchant and entrepreneur Nathanial V. Angle built the Bald Knob furniture factory in 1903 (which became the Lane Furniture Company in 1957 and is currently the MW Manufacturing Company). By World War I, N.V. Angle owned a furniture and grocery stores, a lumberyard, tobacco house, agricultural implement store and the area's first Ford Dealership. Much of the historic architecture, both residential and commercial, dates from the first decades of the 20th century, although only one structure the Lodge Rooms (Colored) built in 1900, remains of what had been a thriving African American community on West Court Street. Workers needed housing, and more elaborate (including Victorian-style) dwellings were built for managers and professionals. Rocky Mount is roughly halfway between Roanoke and Martinsville, Virginia, which likewise developed furniture manufacturing and textile industries early in the 20th century. The present Franklin County courthouse was constructed in 1909 (two years after the Norfolk and Western freight and passenger station) and modeled on the Roanoke County courthouse in Salem, Virginia. Trinity Episcopal Church and its Rectory (both built in 1874, the church being moved back from Main Street in 1906) survived the 1889 fire, but the pre-1898 African Methodist Episcopal Church no longer exists. The Presbyterian Church (built by 1880) managed to reopen shortly after the fire; the Methodists rebuilt their church of brick, then replaced Scott Memorial Church again in 1925. The Baptist Church (colored) built in 1907 was later deconsecrated and became a business; the Bethel AME church built before World War I is still in active use. The town gained a Coca-Cola bottling plant circa 1920. The area's oldest car dealership (Chevrolet) dates from 1926 (although housed in a building from 1916); Ryland Goode also established a car dealership for Dodges and Hudsons that year. The current International Harvester dealership building dates from 1946; the John Deere dealership (built 1940) is now the county's Developmental Center. The Art-Deco style People's National Bank was built in 1928. The town also gained a Sealtest dairy bottling plant and Exchange Milling (an animal feed processing plant) around 1940.

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180 FLOYD AVE 0.1 miles

180 FLOYD AVE
ROCKY MOUNT, VA 24151
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19592 VIRGIL H GOODE HWY 2.8 miles

19592 VIRGIL H GOODE HWY
ROCKY MOUNT, VA 24151
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3235 ELECTRIC RD STE 1A BLD B 17.0 miles

3235 ELECTRIC RD STE 1A BLD B
ROANOKE, VA 24018
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3618 BRAMBLETON AVE STE C 17.6 miles

3618 BRAMBLETON AVE STE C
ROANOKE, VA 24018
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2728 COLONIAL AVE SW Ste 18 17.9 miles

2728 COLONIAL AVE SW Ste 18
ROANOKE, VA 24015
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602 BRANDON AVE SW STE 222 TOWERS SHOPPING CENTER 18.6 miles

602 BRANDON AVE SW STE 222 TOWERS SHOPPING CENTER
ROANOKE, VA 24015
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213 S JEFFERSON ST STE 720 19.1 miles

213 S JEFFERSON ST STE 720
ROANOKE, VA 24011
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213 S JEFFERSON ST STE 1202 19.1 miles

213 S JEFFERSON ST STE 1202
ROANOKE, VA 24011
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512B MCDOWELL AVE NE 19.7 miles

512B MCDOWELL AVE NE
ROANOKE, VA 24016
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2155 APPERSON DR 19.8 miles

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SALEM, VA 24153
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1930 Braeburn Dr Ste C, 19.8 miles

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Salem, VA 24153
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1368 AMERICAN WAY 19.9 miles

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BEDFORD, VA 24523
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320 HOSPITAL DR 21.0 miles

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MARTINSVILLE, VA 24112
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1044 E CHURCH ST 21.2 miles

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MARTINSVILLE, VA 24112
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755 E CHURCH ST 21.2 miles

755 E CHURCH ST
MARTINSVILLE, VA 24112
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1087 SPRUCE ST 22.1 miles

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MARTINSVILLE, VA 24112
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233 HERSHBERGER RD NW 22.6 miles

233 HERSHBERGER RD NW
ROANOKE, VA 24012
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1336 W MAIN ST 22.6 miles

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Salem, VA 24153
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1935 W MAIN ST 22.9 miles

1935 W MAIN ST
SALEM, VA 24153
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1955 W MAIN ST 22.9 miles

1955 W MAIN ST
SALEM, VA 24153
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5610 WILLIAMSON RD 23.0 miles

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ROANOKE, VA 24012
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2871 GREENSBORO RD 23.6 miles

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MARTINSVILLE, VA 24112
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5305 VALLEY PARK DR STE 7 23.7 miles

5305 VALLEY PARK DR STE 7
ROANOKE, VA 24019
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1627 E MAIN ST NEXT TO HARDEES-LAKESIDE 24.4 miles

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SALEM, VA 24153
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Local Area Info: Rocky Mount, Virginia

Rocky Mount is a town in and the county seat of Franklin County, Virginia, United States. The town is part of the Roanoke Metropolitan Statistical Area, and had a population of 4,799 as of the 2010 census. It is located in the Roanoke Region of Virginia.

Although Robert Hill built a block house (fortified residence and trading post) in the 1740s, the first English colonists arrived here in 1760, and they named Rocky Mount for a steep cliff near the town. The area originally consisted of two adjacent villages, Rocky Mount and Mount Pleasant. Washington Iron Furnace was built by James Callaway and Jeremiah Early on what is now Main Street slightly outside what is now the historic district, and operated by Calloway's heirs and Peter Saunders until damaged by a flood in 1850, with rebuilding stopped by the Civil War. The first court session was held at Rocky Mount in 1786 following the Revolutionary War, in Callaway's home until he deeded land to the town on which to build the (log) courthouse. Rocky Mount had a post office in 1795. The town was divided into lots in 1804. Jeremiah's son John Early represented the county (part-time) in the Virginia House of Delegates and served as sheriff as well as operated a plantation nearby. The courthouse was replaced in 1831. By 1836 the iron furnace employed 100 people and the town had about 275 residents, included 30 homes and several businesses including 3 grocery stores and a newspaper/printing office. The oldest dwelling is "Mount Pleasant", built overlooking the courthouse in 1829 for Caleb Tate (the court clerk from 1797-1835); the detached brick kitchen built circa 1820 is the oldest building in town. The Rocky Mount Turnpike Company incorporated in 1846 and a bank shortly afterward, but neither prospered.

During the Civil War, numerous planter families from the Tidewater region sought refuge in Rocky Mount, and many brought substantial numbers of slaves with them. Among these were the immediate past governor, Henry A. Wise, who settled his family here before he became a Confederate general. Jubal Anderson Early, who became a Confederate general during the war, was born on a farm nearby, and served as one term in the Virginia House of Delegates representing the county (succeeded by his mentor Norborne Taliaferro, who later became a judge) and more than a decade as Commonwealth's attorney (prosecutor) before the war, then resumed his legal practice here and in Lynchburg, Virginia after the war's end (although the building which served as his law office was razed in 1937). The only building constructed in that era and surviving today was constructed for Dr. Thomas Greer in 1861. Two other buildings constructed in 1850-1854 and used as law offices still survive. The town's clerk, Robert A. Scott, issued scrip to assist families of Confederate soldiers during the Civil War, and the Confederate government also requisitioned slaves from various county landowners to work on Richmond's defenses. The town experienced no battles, although Union Gen. George Stoneman and troops passed through the county in the war's final days. In 1867, the Freedman's Bureau under William F. DeKnight opened a Sunday school in Rocky Mount, about a third of whose residents at the time were African American, but efforts to establish a day school didn't succeed until much later, which is one of the reasons Booker Taliaferro Washington, born enslaved in Franklin County, moved with his mother to West Virginia for his education, and later studied at the Hampton Institute at the other side of the state.

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Population (total): Population in 2017: 4,764 (92% urban, 8% rural).

Population (male): 2,248

Population (female): 2,516

Poverty (overall): Percentage of residents living in poverty in 2017: 30.1%

Sex Offenders: According to our research of Virginia and other state lists, there were 61 registered sex offenders living in Rocky Mount, Virginia as of January 16, 2021. The ratio of all residents to sex offenders in Rocky Mount is 79 to 1.>

Ancestries: Ancestries: American (29.3%), English (6.2%), German (4.0%), Scotch-Irish (1.8%), Scottish (1.7%).

Elevation: 1200 feet

Land Area: 4.59 square miles.

Population Density:

Median Incomes:
      Estimated median household income in 2017: $41,267 (it was $26,927 in 2000)
      Estimated per capita income in 2017: $25,311 (it was $16,207 in 2000)
      Estimated median house or condo value in 2017: $184,338 (it was $80,100 in 2000) Rocky Mount:$184,338VA:$273,400

The area's major cash crop both before and after the Civil War was tobacco. In 1873, Rocky Mount incorporated as a town and absorbed the smaller village of Mount Pleasant, creating the its present boundaries. Former court clerk Robert Scott became the first mayor. Rocky Mount's population was about 400 people in 1870, 600 in 1897 and about 1100 in 1920. In 1880, the Franklin and Pittsylvania Railroad connected Rocky Mount to Danville and Lynchburg via Pittsylvania County, Virginia, but the more important railroad line would not arrive for another dozen years, until three years after most of Rocky Mount burned in 1889. Industrial and commercial development began as Rocky Mount became a stop on the twisty railroad line between Roanoke, Virginia and Winston-Salem, North Carolina (nicknamed the "Pumpkin Vine", which became the Norfolk and Western Railway after 1896). The Cannaday Mills (a gristmill and box factory) was built in 1898 . Schoolteacher turned merchant and entrepreneur Nathanial V. Angle built the Bald Knob furniture factory in 1903 (which became the Lane Furniture Company in 1957 and is currently the MW Manufacturing Company). By World War I, N.V. Angle owned a furniture and grocery stores, a lumberyard, tobacco house, agricultural implement store and the area's first Ford Dealership. Much of the historic architecture, both residential and commercial, dates from the first decades of the 20th century, although only one structure the Lodge Rooms (Colored) built in 1900, remains of what had been a thriving African American community on West Court Street. Workers needed housing, and more elaborate (including Victorian-style) dwellings were built for managers and professionals. Rocky Mount is roughly halfway between Roanoke and Martinsville, Virginia, which likewise developed furniture manufacturing and textile industries early in the 20th century. The present Franklin County courthouse was constructed in 1909 (two years after the Norfolk and Western freight and passenger station) and modeled on the Roanoke County courthouse in Salem, Virginia. Trinity Episcopal Church and its Rectory (both built in 1874, the church being moved back from Main Street in 1906) survived the 1889 fire, but the pre-1898 African Methodist Episcopal Church no longer exists. The Presbyterian Church (built by 1880) managed to reopen shortly after the fire; the Methodists rebuilt their church of brick, then replaced Scott Memorial Church again in 1925. The Baptist Church (colored) built in 1907 was later deconsecrated and became a business; the Bethel AME church built before World War I is still in active use. The town gained a Coca-Cola bottling plant circa 1920. The area's oldest car dealership (Chevrolet) dates from 1926 (although housed in a building from 1916); Ryland Goode also established a car dealership for Dodges and Hudsons that year. The current International Harvester dealership building dates from 1946; the John Deere dealership (built 1940) is now the county's Developmental Center. The Art-Deco style People's National Bank was built in 1928. The town also gained a Sealtest dairy bottling plant and Exchange Milling (an animal feed processing plant) around 1940.