Alberta, Virginia.
Typical home $145,770 (+6.7% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — $7 (-1%) since Jan 2024.
- 1 year
- Up $9,182 +7%
- $136,588$145,770 since Sep 2025
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.
- Alberta$765
- Virginia$2,164
- United States$1,922
Typical home values in Alberta, VA rose 6.7% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Alberta, Brunswick County, Virginia
Alberta is a town of 302 people in Brunswick County. Unemployment in Brunswick County was 4.1% in August 2026, and the county had 3.2% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Brunswick County work in schools and health care, then shops.
Written by AI Claude Sonnet 5.5 wrote this on 23 October 2026 from the figures here, a list of nearby places and what it knows. It can be wrong or out of date.
What it’s like
The place. Alberta is a very small town in Brunswick County, Virginia, where people mostly know one another and life moves at an unhurried pace. Homes here cost less than in much of the country, and household incomes across the county run below the typical American level. Winters are cool and summers are hot, with January the coldest month and July the warmest.
Work. Residents work mainly in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, in manufacturing and in government. Fewer adults hold a four-year degree than across the country, and few work from home. Across Brunswick County, the largest workplaces include Southside Virginia Community College, Brunswick County Public Schools and The Scotts Company in Lawrenceville. The county has added jobs over the past year, and unemployment there is lower than it was a year earlier.
Things to do. Fort Christanna, an archaeological site, is a short drive away and is the nearest of the local places to explore. A longer drive brings you to Cumberland State Forest, a protected area for time outdoors, and to Lake Gaston, a large reservoir. Several rivers and creeks run through the surrounding countryside, each a longer drive away.
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- 18%of adults have a degree
- 6%work from home
What people in Brunswick County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Brunswick County had 3,414 jobs in 2025, 3.2% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 50° and lows near 27°; warmest in July, with highs near 90° and lows near 67°.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Lawrenceville East weather station, 8 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Brunswick County
- Southside Virginia Community CollegeTwo-year college312
- Brunswick County Public SchoolsSchool district204FTE
- The Scotts Company - LawrencevilleGrowing media manufacturing & packaging98
- Food LionGrocery stores63
- Lawrenceville Health & RehabilitationNursing homes56
- RemacRepair, highway, road, street, bridge or airport runway55
- Dominion EnergyFossil fuel electric power generation47
- Glen-GeryBricks, clay refractory, manufacturing40
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 7 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 397 people in all across the county; Alberta has one of its own. Colleges come from IPEDS (NCES, 2023–24) and school districts from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24); FTE marks full-time equivalent staff. Not listed: many offices and banks, which need not report to OSHA; military bases, whose staff OPM withholds; and, in about half the states, city and county governments.
Natural hazards
- DroughtRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- HurricanesRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively moderate
- HailRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Alberta’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively moderate. It is meant for planning, not a substitute for a local risk assessment or a flood map: FEMA’s index.
From the U.S. Census Bureau’s 2020 census and its American Community Survey (2020–2024 five-year estimates), and the Bureau of Labor Statistics. A survey, so each figure has a margin of error, and figures it is not sure of are left out. More on Brunswick County.
Alberta home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Alberta$145,770
- Virginia$412,252
- United States$366,157
When this market ran hot
Each cell is that month's year-on-year home-value growth. Read left to right, top row is the latest year — the 2021–22 band is the boom.
Zip codes with a Alberta address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Alberta — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.