VPAP published this visual, which describes absentee voting trends in VA-01 by age group for 2017 and 2018. The graphic shows that most absentee voters are in the age group 41-60 years old.
VPAP also published this visual, which shows the reasons given for voting absentee across the Commonwealth. The top reasons given were “work conflict” and “personal business/vacation.” In the 2018 election there were 338,680 absentee ballots cast.