{"id":1049,"date":"2025-02-06T13:00:47","date_gmt":"2025-02-06T18:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/apps.vdh.virginia.gov\/omhhe\/hoi\/?page_id=1049"},"modified":"2025-02-13T08:41:23","modified_gmt":"2025-02-13T13:41:23","slug":"essex-county","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/apps.vdh.virginia.gov\/omhhe\/hoi\/essex-county","title":{"rendered":"Essex County"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Essex County, Virginia is located in the <strong><span class=\"color\">Three Rivers Health District<\/span><\/strong>. It has <strong><span class=\"color\">257.4<\/span><\/strong> square miles of land area and is the <strong><span class=\"color\">78th<\/span><\/strong> largest county in Virginia by total area. It is bordered by Richmond, Middlesex, Lancaster, King George, Westmoreland, Caroline, and King and Queen Counties. There are <strong><span class=\"color\">3<\/span><\/strong> census tracts in the county. The county FIPS number is <strong><span class=\"color\">51057<\/span><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><a class=\"button\" href=\"https:\/\/apps.vdh.virginia.gov\/omhhe\/hoi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Essex.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">View County Report<\/a> \u00a0<a class=\"button\" href=\"https:\/\/apps.vdh.virginia.gov\/omhhe\/hoi\/county-reports\">Return to All County Reports<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1466\" src=\"https:\/\/apps.vdh.virginia.gov\/omhhe\/hoi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Essex.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"960\" srcset=\"https:\/\/apps.vdh.virginia.gov\/omhhe\/hoi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Essex.jpg 720w, https:\/\/apps.vdh.virginia.gov\/omhhe\/hoi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Essex-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\" \/><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Essex County, Virginia is located in the Three Rivers Health District. It has 257.4 square miles of land area and is the 78th largest county in Virginia by total area. It is bordered by Richmond, Middlesex, Lancaster, King George, Westmoreland, Caroline, and King and Queen Counties. There are 3 census tracts in the county. The &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/apps.vdh.virginia.gov\/omhhe\/hoi\/essex-county\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Essex County<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-templates\/maisha-blocks.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1049","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/apps.vdh.virginia.gov\/omhhe\/hoi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1049","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/apps.vdh.virginia.gov\/omhhe\/hoi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/apps.vdh.virginia.gov\/omhhe\/hoi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apps.vdh.virginia.gov\/omhhe\/hoi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apps.vdh.virginia.gov\/omhhe\/hoi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1049"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/apps.vdh.virginia.gov\/omhhe\/hoi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1049\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1593,"href":"https:\/\/apps.vdh.virginia.gov\/omhhe\/hoi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1049\/revisions\/1593"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/apps.vdh.virginia.gov\/omhhe\/hoi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}