Courts by County & City

Virginia has no court called a "traffic court." Under Va. Code § 16.1-123.1, the General District Court of the city or county where the offense arose has exclusive original jurisdiction over the misdemeanors and traffic infractions arising there — so searching for a city or county's "traffic court" almost always means that locality's General District Court. Two exceptions matter: a driver under 18 is dealt with in the juvenile and domestic relations district court (§ 16.1-241), and an appeal from a non-felony conviction goes to the circuit court for a completely new trial (§§ 16.1-132, 16.1-136), not a review of the first one.

The pages below cover counties and cities across Central, Southside and Western Virginia — from Mecklenburg to Tazewell to the Wythe County Circuit Court that sits at Wytheville — with what each court handles and a link to its own page on Virginia's Judicial System site. Where a court's street address, clerk's office hours and phone number could be confirmed on its county's own website, the page gives them with the date they were checked; they change, so confirm them on the court's own page before you go.