Tag: Blacksburg
Blacksburg is an incorporated town located in Montgomery County, Virginia, United States, with a population of 42,620 at the 2010 census. Blacksburg, Christiansburg, and Radford are the three principal jurisdictions of the Blacksburg-Christiansburg-Radford Metropolitan Statistical Area which encompasses those jurisdictions and all of Montgomery, Pulaski, and Giles counties for statistical purposes. The MSA has an estimated population of 159,587 and is currently one of the faster growing MSAs in Virginia. Blacksburg is dominated economically and demographically by the presence of Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (better known as Virginia Tech), a Virginia land-grant university.
Blacksburg is the largest town in Virginia by population, and the 15th largest municipality overall. It is actually larger than several of the commonwealth’s independent cities. In 2011, Businessweek named Blacksburg the “Best Place in the U.S. to Raise Kids.”. Also in 2011, Southern Living…
