Boykins, Virginia.
Typical home $172,918 (-6.7% in a year). Virginia Beach-Norfolk-Newport News, VA-NC metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$448 (+98%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $12,477 -7%
- $185,395$172,918 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $17,584 +11%
- $155,334$172,918 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.
- Boykins$908
- Virginia$2,164
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 32 years.
Typical home values in Boykins, VA fell 6.7% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Boykins, Southampton County, Virginia
Boykins is a town of 516 people in Southampton County. Half its households earn more than $61,042 a year and half less, against $70,795 across Southampton County; 12% of its people live below the poverty line. Unemployment in Southampton County was 3.7% in August 2026, and the county had 2.8% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Southampton County work in schools and health care, then professional services.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Boykins is a very small town in Southampton County, Virginia, with a population well under what most people picture for a town. Household incomes here run below the county's, and homes are modestly priced. Few adults hold a four-year degree, and winters are cool and summers hot, with little snow and plenty of rain across the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with professional and business services, manufacturing and government also employing many. Across Southampton County, the largest workplaces include Southampton County Public Schools, the Virginia Department of Corrections and Hampton Farms, which makes roasted nuts and peanut butter. Commutes are long, and very few people work from home.
Things to do. The outdoors is the main draw nearby. Fountains Creek, a river, is a short drive away, while the Meherrin River and Big Woods State Forest, a protected area, are a longer drive. For a look at the past, Cactus Hill, an archaeological site, is also a longer drive away.
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- 16%of adults have a degree
- 12%below the poverty line
- 45 mintypical commute
- 3%work from home
What people in Southampton County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Southampton County had 3,487 jobs in 2025, 2.8% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 50° and lows near 29°; warmest in July, with highs near 88° and lows near 68°. About 3 inches of snow and 50 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Murfreesboro weather station, 11 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Southampton County
- Southampton County Public SchoolsSchool district497FTE
- Virginia Department of CorrectionsPrisons434
- Hampton FarmsRoasted nuts and peanut butter manufacturing119
- Enviva SouthamptonManufacture of wood pellets100
- Courtland Rehabilitation and Healthcare CenterSkilled nursing facilities91
- Solenis Supply Chain Manufacturing - FranklinNatural nonfood coloring, manufacturing74
- Food LionGrocery stores72
- Cheroenhaka Nottoway EnterprisesCommercial building construction general contractors56
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 12 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,103 people in all across the county; Boykins has none of its own. School districts come 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
- HurricanesRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- HailRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively moderate
- Inland floodingRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Boykins’ 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 Southampton County and the Virginia Beach-Norfolk-Newport News, VA-NC metro.
Boykins home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Boykins$172,918
- 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.
Market heat, inside the city limits
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a Boykins address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Boykins — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.