Beaverdam, Virginia.
Typical home $434,097 (+4.5% in a year). Richmond, VA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,176 (+107%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $18,762 +5%
- $415,335$434,097 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $79,913 +23%
- $354,184$434,097 since Aug 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.
- Beaverdam$2,278
- Virginia$2,164
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 17 years.
Typical home values in Beaverdam, VA rose 4.5% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Beaverdam, Hanover County, Virginia
The Census does not count Beaverdam on its own, so the figures here are Hanover County's. Half the county's households earn more than $112,805 a year and half less; 6% of the county's people live below the poverty line. 82% of the county's homes are lived in by their owners and 18% are rented. Unemployment in Hanover County was 3.0% in August 2026, and the county had 3.3% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Hanover County work in schools and health care, then professional services.
Written by AI Claude Haiku 5.5 wrote this on 22 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Beaverdam is in Hanover County, Virginia, north of Richmond. Across the county, most homes are lived in by their owners, and few households live below the poverty line. Winters are cold, with snow in most years, and summers are warm, with rain falling through much of the year.
Work. Across Hanover County, unemployment has stayed steady over the past year, though the number of jobs fell slightly last year. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, in professional and business services, in shops, and in banking, insurance and property. Many adults in the county hold a college degree, and some residents work from home.
Things to do. Lake Anna, a reservoir, is a short drive away and is a good place for time on the water. Kings Dominion, an amusement park, and the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, a museum, are both a longer drive away.
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- 42,688households
- 42.7median age
- 43%of adults have a degree
- 6%below the poverty line
- 27 mintypical commute
- 19%work from home
What people in Hanover County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Hanover County had 57,566 jobs in 2025, 3.3% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 47° and lows near 27°; warmest in July, with highs near 87° and lows near 68°. About 15 inches of snow and 45 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Ashland weather station, 15 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Hanover County
- Hanover County Public SchoolsSchool district2,720FTE
- RMC EventsPromoters of conventions with or without facilities2,349
- Memorial Regional Medical CenterGeneral hospital1,199FTE
- AmazonCouriers and express delivery services1,081
- Wegmans Food MarketsGeneral warehouse and storage592
- Randolph-Macon CollegeUniversity or college506
- UnfiGeneral line grocery merchant wholesalers485
- Asplundh Tree ExpertTree trimming services479
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 152 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 19,115 people in all. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24), hospitals from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023) and colleges from IPEDS (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
- Ice stormsRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms across Hanover County, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively low. 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 Hanover County and the Richmond, VA metro.
Beaverdam home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Beaverdam$434,097
- Virginia$412,252
- United States$366,157
Levy by levy, and a check of one home’s own bill, the site covers Ohio’s property tax.
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.
Market heat, inside the city limits
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Beaverdam15
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Beaverdam7
Zip codes with a Beaverdam address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Beaverdam — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.