Bracey, Virginia.
Typical home $186,511 (+2.2% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$574 (+142%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $3,969 +2%
- $182,542$186,511 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $40,468 +28%
- $146,042$186,511 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.
- Bracey$979
- Virginia$2,164
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 14 years.
Typical home values in Bracey, VA rose 2.2% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Bracey, Mecklenburg County, Virginia
Bracey, in Mecklenburg County, had 1,372 people in the 2020 census. 84% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 16% are rented. Unemployment in Mecklenburg County was 4.0% in August 2026, and the county had 1.6% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Mecklenburg 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Bracey is a small community in southern Virginia where nearly everyone owns the home they live in, and far fewer people live below the poverty line than you might expect. Typical home values are modest, and incomes across Mecklenburg County run on the lower side. Winters are cold but not severe, summers are hot, and rain and melted snow come steadily through the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with others in shops, professional and business services, and manufacturing. Across Mecklenburg County, the largest workplaces include Mecklenburg County Public Schools, Community Memorial Hospital and Walmart. The county has added a few more jobs over the past year, and unemployment is a little higher than it was a year ago. A typical commute is a moderate one, and a fair number of adults hold a four-year degree.
Things to do. Close by, the Dick Cross Wildlife Management Area is a protected area a short drive away, and the Elm Hill Archaeological Site is also a short drive off. For water, Kerr Lake is a reservoir a longer drive away, popular with anyone who likes to be near a lake. Medoc Mountain State Park is a protected area, also a longer drive away.
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- 680households
- 32%of adults have a degree
- 3%below the poverty line
- 23 mintypical commute
What people in Mecklenburg County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Mecklenburg County had 11,904 jobs in 2025, 1.6% more 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 92° and lows near 70°. About 44 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the John H Kerr Dam weather station, 10 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Mecklenburg County
- Mecklenburg County Public SchoolsSchool district755FTE
- Community Memorial HospitalGeneral hospital601FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters304
- The Shade StoreShade manufacturing168
- Clarksville Health & RehabSkilled nursing facilities138
- Food LionGrocery stores90
- Mecklenburg Electric Chase City DistrictDistribution of electric power71
- Food LionGrocery stores69
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 18 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,299 people in all across the county; Bracey has none of its own. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24) and hospitals from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023); 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 moderate
- HurricanesRelatively moderate
- Inland floodingRelatively moderate
- Winter weatherRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Bracey’s census tracts, 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 Mecklenburg County.
Bracey home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Bracey$186,511
- Virginia$412,252
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 5 Bracey listings — the market is heating up.
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
Share of listings with a price cut
The early-warning dial: sellers cut when buyers stop reaching. Rising cuts cool a market months before prices notice.
- Bracey20.46%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Bracey39
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Bracey9
Zip codes with a Bracey address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Bracey — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.