Falls Mills vs Pounding Mill

A side-by-side comparison of Falls Mills and Pounding Mill: population, income, housing, and more.

Falls Mills and Pounding Mill are places in Virginia. This page compares them across population, income, housing, education, commuting, and how each has changed since 2019.

Pounding Mill has the higher population (235 vs 97 in Falls Mills). Pounding Mill has the higher median home value ($96,400 vs $67,100 in Falls Mills). Since 2019, Falls Mills's population has grown faster (-21.8% vs -41.1%).

Population, income & housing

	Falls Mills	Pounding Mill
Population	97	235
Median age	45.2 yrs	65.0 yrs
Median home value	$67,100	$96,400
Housing units	58	146
Homeownership rate	100.0%	100.0%
Bachelor's degree or higher	0.0%	6.2%
Unemployment rate	0.0%	15.6%

Trends (ACS 5-year, 2019–2023)

	Falls Mills	Pounding Mill
Population	124 → 97 (-21.8%)	399 → 235 (-41.1%)
Median household income	—	$60,417 → $31,471 (-47.9%)
Median home value	$90,500 → $67,100 (-25.9%)	$105,800 → $96,400 (-8.9%)

Falls Mills

Population

12497

Median home value

$90,500$67,100

Pounding Mill

Population

399235

Median household income

$60,417$31,471

Median home value

$105,800$96,400

Age & race/ethnicity

Age distribution (share)

	Falls Mills	Pounding Mill
Under 5	0.0%	0.0%
5 to 17	11.3%	10.6%
18 to 24	0.0%	0.0%
25 to 34	35.1%	8.1%
35 to 44	0.0%	0.0%
45 to 54	19.6%	6.0%
55 to 64	14.4%	25.1%
65 to 74	19.6%	20.9%
75 and over	0.0%	29.4%

Race & ethnicity (share)

	Falls Mills	Pounding Mill
White (non-Hispanic)	100.0%	91.9%
Black or African American	0.0%	0.0%
American Indian & Alaska Native	0.0%	0.0%
Asian	0.0%	0.0%
Native Hawaiian & Pacific Islander	0.0%	0.0%
Some other race	0.0%	0.0%
Two or more races	0.0%	0.0%
Hispanic or Latino	0.0%	8.1%

Educational attainment (age 25+)

Share of adults 25+

	Falls Mills	Pounding Mill
No high school diploma	38.4%	19.5%
High school graduate	38.4%	17.6%
Some college or associate's	23.3%	56.7%
Bachelor's degree	0.0%	6.2%
Graduate or professional degree	0.0%	0.0%

Commute to work

How workers get to work (share)

	Falls Mills	Pounding Mill
Drove alone	73.5%	86.4%
Carpooled	0.0%	13.6%
Public transit	0.0%	0.0%
Walked	0.0%	0.0%
Bicycle	0.0%	0.0%
Worked from home	26.5%	0.0%
Other means	0.0%	0.0%

Housing

Units in structure (share)

	Falls Mills	Pounding Mill
1-unit, detached	75.9%	84.9%
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	24.1%	15.1%

Poverty & households

	Falls Mills	Pounding Mill
Poverty rate	19.6%	12.3%
Average household size	1.67	1.91
Mean commute (minutes)	—	49
Median year structure built	1952	1975