Blacksburg, Virginia, United States

🇺🇸 Blacksburg is an incorporated town in Montgomery County, Virginia, United States. Blacksburg, as well as the surrounding county, is dominated economically and demographically by the presence of Virginia Tech (Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University).

Blacksburg, Christiansburg, and the city of Radford are the three principal jurisdictions of the Blacksburg-Christiansburg Metropolitan Statistical Area, which encompasses those jurisdictions and all of Montgomery, Pulaski, and Giles counties for statistical purposes. The MSA is currently one of the faster-growing MSAs in Virginia. BusinessWeek named Blacksburg as the "Best Place in the U.S. to Raise Kids". Readers of Southern Living named Blacksburg the "Best College Town in the South". Its public transportation system, Blacksburg Transit, which also connects to the neighbouring town of Christiansburg, has repeatedly been recognised for the quality of its service.

Blacksburg High School is often ranked among the top schools of the nation for its academics. Its soccer, track, and cross-country teams are also among the top in the state.

Economy The Virginia Tech Corporate Research Center is home to several companies of varying sizes including Honeywell, and the National Weather Service which maintains its Southwestern Virginia headquarters there. The town is also home to MOOG, a major supplier for the defense department and the health care industry and Rackspace, who acquired locally based Mailtrust/Webmail.us in 2007. The town and county continue to recruit major industry to the area. Due to its close proximity to Virginia Tech and Radford University, Blacksburg is an ideal location for developing high tech industry.

Top employers According to Blacksburg's 2021 Comprehensive Annual Financial Report, the top employers in the town are: 1 Virginia Tech; 2 Moog; 3 HCA Montgomery Regional Hospital; 4 NRV Community Services; 5 Town of Blacksburg; 6 Eaglepicher Wolverine LLC; 7 Spectrum (Tetra); 8 Federal-Mogul Corporation; 9 Virginia Tech Services, Inc.; 10 Luna Innovations .