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Websites & SEO for Highland Springs

An East Henrico community a few miles from downtown, the metro's affordable end — modest home values and a wage-and-salary workforce.

A Highland Springs site should answer to Highland Springs's own market, so we start from the numbers rather than a template. Here is the sourced read we work from.

Highland Springs by the numbers

Population
14,296
Median age
38.0
Median household income
$57,599
Median home value
$227,300
Owner-occupied
61.3%
Broadband access
88.0%
Self-employed
5.6%
Median year built
1976

Source: US Census ACS 2024 5-year, Highland Springs profile (Census Reporter).

What the data says about building here

Highland Springs is the affordable end of the metro. A $227,300 median home value and a $57,599 median household income make it the region's value market, and a 5.6 percent self-employment rate — the metro's lowest — marks it as a wage-and-salary community rather than a founder-heavy one.

That shapes who a site here should speak to: working households, price-aware, searching for straightforward service. Broadband reaches 88.0 percent of homes, a few points behind the affluent suburbs, so speed on a modest connection is not a detail to skip.

The Henrico County business base

Behind a Highland Springs storefront sits the economy of Henrico County: 9,754 employer establishments and $12.5B of annual payroll, counted in the 2023 County Business Patterns. 711 of them are construction firms, employing roughly 8,944 people, with 1,268 professional-services firms besides — the two trades a Highland Springs site most has to win.

Source: County Business Patterns 2023, Henrico County (U.S. Census Bureau).

What we do for Highland Springs businesses

Further reading

Opening or renovating a storefront anywhere in the metro? Our field guide walks the whole sequence — Certificates of Appropriateness, the 2026 business-license change, permits, and the river rules for low-lying blocks — with every number linked to its City of Richmond source.

Read the Richmond storefront field guide →

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