Modest Town vs Temperanceville

A side-by-side comparison of Modest Town and Temperanceville: population, income, housing, and more.

Modest Town and Temperanceville are places in Virginia. This page compares them across population, income, housing, education, commuting, and how each has changed since 2019.

Temperanceville has the higher population (265 vs 243 in Modest Town). Modest Town has the higher median household income ($101,875 vs $30,625 in Temperanceville). Since 2019, Modest Town's population has grown faster (+81.3% vs +2.7%).

Population, income & housing

	Modest Town	Temperanceville
Population	243	265
Median age	41.3 yrs	38.9 yrs
Median household income	$101,875	$30,625
Housing units	66	117
Homeownership rate	53.0%	76.0%
Bachelor's degree or higher	5.4%	37.3%
Unemployment rate	0.0%	0.0%

Trends (ACS 5-year, 2019–2023)

	Modest Town	Temperanceville
Population	134 → 243 (+81.3%)	258 → 265 (+2.7%)
Median household income	$121,953 → $101,875 (-16.5%)	$83,958 → $30,625 (-63.5%)
Median home value	—	$136,600 → $144,900 (+6.1%)

Modest Town

Population

134243

Median household income

$121,953$101,875

Temperanceville

Population

258265

Median household income

$83,958$30,625

Median home value

$136,600$144,900

Age & race/ethnicity

Age distribution (share)

	Modest Town	Temperanceville
Under 5	0.0%	0.0%
5 to 17	39.5%	39.2%
18 to 24	0.0%	0.0%
25 to 34	4.5%	4.9%
35 to 44	21.8%	6.8%
45 to 54	0.0%	5.7%
55 to 64	7.4%	17.7%
65 to 74	0.0%	19.6%
75 and over	26.7%	6.0%

Race & ethnicity (share)

	Modest Town	Temperanceville
White (non-Hispanic)	88.9%	41.1%
Black or African American	0.0%	18.9%
American Indian & Alaska Native	0.0%	0.0%
Asian	0.0%	4.2%
Native Hawaiian & Pacific Islander	0.0%	0.0%
Some other race	0.0%	0.0%
Two or more races	11.1%	4.2%
Hispanic or Latino	0.0%	31.7%

Educational attainment (age 25+)

Share of adults 25+

	Modest Town	Temperanceville
No high school diploma	57.8%	13.7%
High school graduate	22.4%	9.3%
Some college or associate's	14.3%	39.8%
Bachelor's degree	0.0%	29.8%
Graduate or professional degree	5.4%	7.5%

Commute to work

How workers get to work (share)

	Modest Town	Temperanceville
Drove alone	57.1%	98.4%
Carpooled	20.2%	1.6%
Public transit	0.0%	0.0%
Walked	22.6%	0.0%
Bicycle	0.0%	0.0%
Worked from home	0.0%	0.0%
Other means	0.0%	0.0%

Housing

Units in structure (share)

	Modest Town	Temperanceville
1-unit, detached	59.1%	78.6%
1-unit, attached	0.0%	0.0%
2 to 4 units	0.0%	0.0%
5 to 19 units	0.0%	0.0%
20 or more units	0.0%	0.0%
Mobile home & other	40.9%	21.4%

Poverty & households

	Modest Town	Temperanceville
Poverty rate	0.0%	60.0%
Average household size	3.68	2.65
Mean commute (minutes)	—	25
Median year structure built	1991	1974