Zip lookup · VA

23834
Colonial Heights, Virginia.

Colonial Heights, Chesterfield County, VA · Richmond, VA metro · population 26,628

What it costs per month · 23834 $1,549/mo

to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$869 (+128%) since Jan 2020.

What the home itself did
1 year
Up $3,490 +1%
$291,628$295,118 since Sep 2025
5 years
Up $70,209 +31%
$224,909$295,118 since Sep 2021

Monthly payment to buy the typical home

Home value × that month's 30-year mortgage rate, 20% down, principal and interest. This is the line households feel: prices and rates compound each other.

$500 $1,000 $1,500 $2,000 2002 2006 2010 2014 2018 2022 2026 23834 $1,549 United States $1,922
$500 $1,000 $1,500 $2,000 2002 2010 2018 2026
  • 23834$1,549
  • United States$1,922

At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 13 years.

Typical home values in zip 23834 rose 1.2% over the past year — in step with the nation.

Asking rents in zip 23834 rose 0.5% over the past year — slower than the nation's +2.7%.

Owning the typical home in zip 23834 runs $392/mo more than renting one. The gap peaked at $489 in Mar 2025.

That is $2,057 a month against $1,665 rent: a $1,549 mortgage payment, plus $193 property tax and $316 insurance & upkeep.

Owning vs renting — zip 23834

The owning line is the typical home's monthly payment at that month's rate, plus property tax and insurance & upkeep; the renting line is the typical asking rent; the grey line is the mortgage payment on its own. Same homes, same months, both ways of paying for a roof.

$1,400 $1,600 $1,800 $2,000 2025 2026 Owning all in $2,057 Renting $1,665 Mortgage only $1,549
$1,400 $1,600 $1,800 $2,000 2025 2026
  • Owning all in$2,057
  • Renting$1,665
  • Mortgage only$1,549

Property tax · $193/mo 0.78% of value a year — the ACS 2020-2024 median bill over the median home value for 2 counties

Insurance & upkeep · $316/mo insurance, maintenance and repairs together, from the BLS Consumer Expenditure Survey — the national figure for mortgaged homeowners, scaled to this market's home value. BLS publishes the three bundled and they cannot be split.

Both are priced off the same month's home value, so they rise with the market. Neither is a quote — a specific home's bill depends on its assessment, its age and its insurer.

This zip spans 2 counties: Chesterfield County, VA 69% · Colonial Heights City, VA 31%

Zillow also publishes an index for the city itself: Colonial Heights, VA — measured over the city limits, which is a different area from this zip.

Asking rent $1,665 as of Sep 2026
+0.5%year on year
Typical home value $295,118 as of Sep 2026
+1.2%year on year

Asking rent — 23834

Against the Richmond, VA metro and the national benchmark.

$1,500 $1,600 $1,700 $1,800 $1,900 2025 2026 23834 $1,665 Richmond $1,706 United States $1,932
$1,500 $1,600 $1,700 $1,800 $1,900 2025 2026
  • 23834$1,665
  • Richmond$1,706
  • United States$1,932

Typical home value — 23834

Mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.

$200,000 $300,000 $400,000 2018 2020 2022 2024 2026 23834 $295,118 Richmond $392,106 United States $366,157
$200,000 $300,000 $400,000 2018 2022 2026
  • 23834$295,118
  • Richmond$392,106
  • United States$366,157

Within 20 miles

10 mi 20 mi 50 mi
Miles Zip City Population Rent Home value
4.7 23831 Chester 39,529 $1,824 $381,109
5.7 23836 Chester 15,298 $1,803 $439,842
6.9 23803 Petersburg 42,012 $1,329 $238,838
8.3 23237 Richmond 27,126 $1,879 $325,915
8.8 23875 Prince George 13,029 $1,436 $347,525
9.8 23860 Hopewell 31,404 $1,200 $233,084
11.1 23805 Petersburg 21,408 $1,416 $264,796
11.5 23231 Henrico 38,544 $1,673 $333,364
11.9 23234 Richmond 47,465 $1,559 $309,463
12.1 23885 Sutherland 3,193 — $349,004
12.9 23832 Chesterfield 41,442 $1,890 $410,203
12.9 23838 Chesterfield 17,686 — $569,290
14.5 23842 Disputanta 6,924 — $376,946
14.9 23224 Richmond 40,575 $1,520 $243,565
15.7 23833 Church Road 2,212 — $337,046
16.4 23236 Richmond 27,903 $1,723 $391,368
17.0 23225 Richmond 42,771 $1,518 $367,296
17.1 23150 Sandston 12,544 $2,025 $320,286
17.5 23219 Richmond 4,062 $1,530 $360,326
17.7 23112 Midlothian 57,016 $2,054 $434,381
17.9 23235 Richmond 33,461 $1,845 $415,336
18.3 23220 Richmond 34,671 $1,763 $446,587
18.3 23841 Dinwiddie 3,021 — $312,209
18.5 23223 Richmond 54,659 $1,469 $295,779
18.5 23830 Carson 1,412 — $341,293
18.6 23075 Henrico 8,347 $1,683 $257,207
18.9 23221 Richmond 14,402 $1,895 $645,519
19.2 23030 Charles City 4,470 — $270,702
19.6 23114 Midlothian 21,631 $2,120 $468,325

Coordinates and population from SimpleMaps US Zips (Basic). Rent and home values from Zillow Research.