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Renting an Apartment in Roanoke
What You Should Know
Roanoke is an independent city located in the Commonwealth of Virginia. The city
of Roanoke is adjacent to the city of Salem and the town of Vinton and is
otherwise surrounded by, but politically separate from, Roanoke County. As of
the 2000 census, the city had a total population of 94,911. The city is bisected
by the Roanoke River. Roanoke is the commercial, cultural, and medical hub of
much of the surrounding area of Virginia and southern West Virginia.
The United States Census Bureau includes in Roanoke's metropolitan area the
counties of Botetourt, Franklin, Craig and Roanoke, and the cities of Salem and
Roanoke. The metropolitan area's population in the past three censuses has been
reported to be:
* 1980 --- 220,393
* 1990 --- 224,477
* 2000 --- 235,932
* 2005 (estimate) --- 292,983
Please note that the figures through 2000 do not include Franklin County (50,345
est. 2005 population) and Craig County (5,154 est. 2005 population) which were
recently added to the Roanoke MSA, which is the fourth largest in Virginia
(behind the Greater Richmond area, Northern Virginia and Hampton Roads) and the
largest outside of the eastern half of the state.