Charlottesville and Albemarle Local Resources

You may also call the City Attorney's office at (434) 970-3131 to find out if any particular code section has been amended recently.

For more information or to verify amendments, please call the Office of the County Attorney at (434) 972-4067.

Enter a state, county, city, town, or zip code to find various demographic and housing information about that place. Brought to you by the US Census's American FactFinder. For in-depth demographic information, please contact the
Data Team at the library.

Sponsored by the Blue Ridge Apartment Council, this site provides you with all the information you need to find an apartment or house in Charlottesville.

Search for a residential or commercial properties, real estate services, or a real estate agent.

Search for residential property values, assessment history, and ownership for Charlottesville by address or name. View administrative, environmental, topographic layers and more in the Map view. From the City Assessor's Office.

Search for residential property values, assessment history, and ownership for Albemarle County by address or name. View administrative, environmental, topographic layers and more in the Map view.

Links to a wealth of information about the Albemarle/Charlottesville area. Employment, education, housing, local government and arts. Monticello Avenue is jointly supported by the City of Charlottesville, the County of Albemarle, and the Jefferson-Madison Regional Library.

Extensive guide to living in Charlottesville, including information on family time, finding a job, shopping, dining, housing, and much more. (And not just for law students!) Brought to you by the University of Virginia School of Law.

"The AreaVibes Livability Score was designed to help you find the best places to live. It is created using a unique algorithm that takes into account dozens of characteristics in 7 different categories including nearby amenities, cost of living, crime rates, education, employment, housing and weather. A total Livability Score is then calculated out of 100 for any area across America."

Charlottesville's daily newspaper. Top stories, weather forecasts, community events calendar, lottery results, and classified ads.

Weekly living magazine for Charlottesville and the surrounding area.

Student newspaper serving the University of Virginia in Charlottesville.

Aggregation of local television news for the Charlottesville area.

Founded in 1940, the Albemarle Charlottesville Historical Society seeks to study, preserve, and promote the history of Charlottesville and Albemarle County, Virginia. The Society strives to accomplish this mission through a variety of public programs, including exhibits, publications, lectures, walking tours, oral history interviews, and various educational programs.

A pdf version of the subject heading index (21 pages) of the Local History File, located in Shannon Library Reference: a collection of files containing mostly historical newspaper clippings. Primary dates of coverage are 1940 through 1990. Ask about it at the main desk in Shannon.

Marvelous searchable collection of nearly nine thousand historic photographs of Charlottesville and Albemarle County from the late 19th century through the 1920s. Searchable by keyword, name/place, and date. From the Special Collections Department at the University of Virginia Library.

The UVA Library holds a pair of original map books for the City of Charlottesville, for 1907 and 1920, that have been digitized and georeferenced, which are the source material for this digital collection.

The UVA Library holds a pair of original map books for the City of Charlottesville, for 1907 and 1920, that have been digitized and georeferenced, which are the source material for this digital collection.

In addition to the featured Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps of Charlottesville, the Scholar's Lab offers many other historical maps of the local area. Search for the place name you are looking for.

This collection contains numerous maps and aerial photographs of the University Grounds, Charlottesville, and Albemarle County. In addition, there are many general reference manuals such as Historic Preservation Resources, FP&C Design Guidelines, Facility Audits, and University Master Plans available for reference.

Currently, there are unreferenced images from 1937, 1957, 1966, 1974, 1980, and 1990. For 1996 and 2000, there are unreferenced images and more detailed georeferenced images for use with GIS. This website is only available on grounds. Please contact Chris Gist for assistance with accessing content.

Library catalogs, information on adult and children's programs, and other reference information for the libraries of Albemarle, Charlottesville, Greene, Louisa and Nelson counties.

UVA Library is an academic research library that serves UVA students, faculty, and staff, as well as community members.