Main Navigation

Main Content

All About Blacksburg

Welcome to Blacksburg!

Overview

Nestled on a plateau between the Blue Ridge and Allegheny mountains, the Town of Blacksburg is part of Montgomery County in the heart of Southwest Virginia’s New River Valley.

Because of the town’s award-winning services, reasonable cost of living, safety, moderate climate, and abundant leisure activities, Blacksburg is consistently ranked among the country’s best places to live and has a nationwide reputation as a well-managed, stable, and forward-looking community.

Learn all about Blacksburg:

10 Interesting Facts about the New River Valley
Blacksburg nightlife
Blacksburg history
The surrounding area
Why Blacksburg? | Hear first-hand from students, faculty, and staff

Quick Facts

The Town of Blacksburg and the Virginia Tech campus experience very little crime. In a recent National Citizens Survey, 91 percent of Blacksburg’s residents reported that they feel safe in their neighborhoods.
The nationally accredited Virginia Tech Police Department operates 24-hours a day and provides full police service to the university community.
In the National Citizens Survey, Blacksburg residents gave the highest ratings to their town’s appearance, openness, and acceptance, as well as its many cultural opportunities, safety, and low crime rate.
Outside Magazine ranked Blacksburg a top ten “dream town” for outdoors enthusiasts because of its proximity to the Appalachian Trail and the Washington-Jefferson National Forest.
Virginia’s largest town, Blacksburg has been ranked among the nation’s best places to live by Blue Ridge Country Magazine, Men’s Journal, 50 Best Small Southern Towns, The Sporting News, and Retirement Places Rated.
In 2005, Blacksburg was named by Expansion Management magazine’s “Knowledge Worker Quotient” as a Top Metro for Ph.D.s per Capita (following only Ithaca, N.Y.); Best Educated Technical Work Force; and Five-Star Knowledge Worker Metro.
Blacksburg, along with Christiansburg and Radford and including Giles, Montgomery, and Pulaski counties, is considered a Metropolitan Statistical Area by the U.S. Census Bureau.
Downtown Blacksburg offers more than 160 businesses and restaurants, making it easy to meet both students and residents.
Virginia Tech’s Corporate Research Center (CRC) hosts more than 100 technology-based companies, as well as the Edward Via Virginia College of Osteopathic Medicine, contributing to Blacksburg’s high-tech, professional environment.
Blacksburg is one of the most “wired” communities on the planet, offering mobile connection to the Internet from anywhere in town.
Blacksburg is home to The Inn at Virginia Tech and Skelton Conference Center, a gorgeous complex spanning some 200,000 square feet at the town’s entrance on Prices Fork Road.
The award-winning Blacksburg Transit (BT), which provides town-wide public transportation at a reasonable cost, also furnishes a game day shuttle for football and basketball games.