Blood, Trauma, and Biohazard Cleanup in Blue Ridge, VA

Blue Ridge is an unincorporated census-designated place in southern Botetourt County, Virginia, located along U.S. Route 460 and counted as part of the Roanoke metropolitan area — it is a suburban community, not the mountain range of the same name.

Blue Ridge had a population of 3,185 at the 2020 census, a remarkably stable figure that sits almost exactly where the community stood two decades earlier, at 3,188 people in 2000.

The 2020 census counted 1,232 households in Blue Ridge among 1,318 total housing units.

Blue Ridge covers about 6.09 square miles at an elevation of roughly 1,263 feet, and its ZIP Code, 24064, extends beyond the CDP into parts of neighboring Bedford County.

Blue Ridge functions largely as a bedroom community for Roanoke and Salem, though it has its own industrial employers, including the Boxley Materials Company quarry near the Bedford County line, an Adams Construction asphalt plant and a General Shale brickyard.

Boxley Fields Park, a Botetourt County park inside the CDP named for the Boxley Materials Company, offers baseball fields, a soccer field, a walking trail and an outdoor classroom, while the county's Blue Ridge Park sits just outside the CDP boundary.

Blue Ridge students attend Botetourt County Public Schools, zoned to Colonial Elementary School, Read Mountain Middle School and Lord Botetourt High School.

U.S. Routes 221 and 460 run through Blue Ridge together as Blue Ridge Boulevard, and the Blue Ridge Parkway — the scenic federal parkway the community shares its name with — passes through the area.

Census Bureau survey estimates for 2020 put Blue Ridge's median household income at $78,536, with only about 3.1% of residents living below the poverty line.