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Mount Hermon, Virginia.

A community in Pittsylvania County, with no city government of its own. Zillow publishes no home prices for it: see Pittsylvania County’s.

Living in Mount Hermon, Pittsylvania County, Virginia

Mount Hermon, in Pittsylvania County, had 4,057 people in the 2020 census. 84% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 16% are rented. Unemployment in Pittsylvania County was 3.9% in August 2026, and the county had 1.1% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in schools and health care, then shops.

People 4,057 in the 2020 census; median age 52.1
Household income Too few homes in Mount Hermon for the Census survey to measure.
Unemployment 3.9% Pittsylvania County, August 2026; 4.2% a year before
Homes 84% lived in by their owners; 16% rented
  • 1,769households
  • 32%of adults have a degree
  • 7%below the poverty line
  • 22 mintypical commute

What residents work in

  • Schools, hospitals and social care39%
  • Shops (retail)16%
  • Manufacturing12%
  • Banks, insurance and property6%
  • Professional and business services5%
  • Transport, warehouses and utilities5%

Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Pittsylvania County had 13,000 jobs in 2025, 1.1% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).

Weather through the year

Average daily high and low for each month: coldest in January, 50° and 26°; warmest in July, 91° and 68° 20° 40° 60° 80° 100° J 50° 26° F M A M J J 91° 68° A S O N D
Average daily high and low for each month: coldest in January, 50° and 26°; warmest in July, 91° and 68° 20° 40° 60° 80° 100° J 50° 26° F M A M J J 91° 68° A S O N D

Coldest in January, with highs near 50° and lows near 26°; warmest in July, with highs near 91° and lows near 68°. About 5 inches of snow and 47 inches of rain and melted snow a year.

Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Danville Southeast weather station, 8 miles away (NOAA).

Largest workplaces in Pittsylvania County

  1. Pittsylvania County Public SchoolsSchool district1,425FTE
  2. Caesars VirginiaHotels, resort, with casinos1,293
  3. Tyson FarmsPoultry processing629
  4. Unique Industries - BlairsIndustrial supplies, disposable plastics, paper, merchant wholesalers541
  5. Intertape Polymer Group325
  6. Virginia Dept. Of CorrectionsCorrectional institutions296
  7. JTI Leaf Services (US)Tobacco leaf processing and aging278
  8. Universal Health ServicesRes mental health substance abuse facilit193

Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 43 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 5,934 people in all across the county; Mount Hermon has one of its own. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24); FTE marks full-time equivalent staff. Not listed: many offices and banks, which need not report to OSHA; military bases, whose staff OPM withholds; and, in about half the states, city and county governments.

Natural hazards

  1. Winter weatherRelatively moderate
  2. LightningRelatively moderate
  3. Inland floodingRelatively moderate
  4. Strong windRelatively moderate

FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Mount Hermon’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively low. It is meant for planning, not a substitute for a local risk assessment or a flood map: FEMA’s index.

From the U.S. Census Bureau’s 2020 census and its American Community Survey (2020–2024 five-year estimates), and the Bureau of Labor Statistics. A survey, so each figure has a margin of error, and figures it is not sure of are left out. More on Pittsylvania County.