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Virginia / Buchanan County

How's Buchanan County?

One question about Buchanan County, Virginia, each answered from public data, with the method and the raw numbers one click away. More topics for this place are on the way.

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Buchanan County year by year

Yearly figures for every US county, latest complete year 1991 to 2025:wages and jobs from the Bureau of Labor Statistics; air quality from the EPA, where a monitor reads it.

Jobs and pay

IndicatorLatest1 yr5 yr10 yrAmong countiesTrend
Average weekly wage2025 · jobs covered by unemployment insurance, before tax, not adjusted for inflation$1,208+0.7%+29.4%+40.5%Highest quartile603 of 3,221 counties in 2025 · 35 of 133 in Virginia
Jobs located here2025 · by where the job is, not where the worker lives5.7K jobs−5.9%+0.3%−17.1%3rd quartile1,924 of 3,221 counties in 2025 · 82 of 133 in Virginia

Air quality

IndicatorLatest1 yr5 yr10 yrAmong countiesTrend
Days with good air1991 · AQI 50 or below, counties with a monitor reading at least 180 days91.7% of days+4.9 pts––Highest quartile65 of 573 counties in 1991 · 2 of 24 in Virginia
Median daily AQI1991 · the middle day of the year; 0–50 is good, 51–100 moderate28 AQI−2.0 AQI––Lowest quartile508 of 573 counties in 1991 · 23 of 24 in Virginia

4 indicators. Change is a percent change for totals and levels, and a difference in points or units for rates and shares. "Among counties" ranks Buchanan County against every US county with a figure for the same year (1 is the highest value, which is not always the best). In the strip each tick is one of them, the dot is Buchanan County and the taller gray tick is the United States as a whole, where there is a national figure. A year is shown only once it is complete. Each indicator's page ranks every state.