Bumpass, Virginia.
Typical home $445,007 (+2.9% in a year). Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,298 (+125%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $12,443 +3%
- $432,563$445,007 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $96,262 +28%
- $348,745$445,007 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.
- Bumpass$2,336
- 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 Bumpass, VA rose 2.9% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Bumpass, Louisa County, Virginia
The Census does not count Bumpass on its own, so the figures here are Louisa County's. Half the county's households earn more than $86,689 a year and half less; 10% 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 Louisa County was 3.5% in August 2026, and the county had 1.2% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Louisa County work in schools and health care, then shops.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Bumpass is a small community in Louisa County, in central Virginia. Winters here are cold, with some snow most years, and summers are warm, with July the warmest month. Across the county, most homes are lived in by their owners, and many neighbors have lived here for years and know one another.
Work. Across Louisa County, many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, in professional and business services, and in the building trades. The county's unemployment rate is a little lower than it was a year earlier, and it has added jobs over the past year. Relatively few residents work from home, so most people travel out each day for their jobs.
Things to do. Kings Dominion, an amusement park, is a longer drive away and is one of the best known attractions nearby. Lake Anna, a reservoir, is a short drive away and is a pleasant place for an afternoon outdoors.
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- 15,561households
- 44.8median age
- 30%of adults have a degree
- 10%below the poverty line
- 36 mintypical commute
- 12%work from home
What people in Louisa County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Louisa County had 10,331 jobs in 2025, 1.2% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 45° and lows near 25°; warmest in July, with highs near 87° and lows near 65°. About 16 inches of snow and 44 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Louisa weather station, 15 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Louisa County
- WalmartRefrigerated warehousing and storage1,151
- Louisa County Public SchoolsSchool district930FTE
- Dominion EnergyNuclear electric power generation871
- Klockner Pentaplast of America, Inc. (Gordonsville)Film, plastics, manufacturing470
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters325
- MPSBooks merchant wholesalers273
- Mann+Hummel PVAFurnace filters manufacturing239
- N&S Construction LouisaCable laying, including underground220
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 22 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 4,425 people in all. 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
- LightningRelatively moderate
- DroughtRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms across Louisa County, against the rest of the country; all of them together, very 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 Louisa County and the Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV metro.
Bumpass home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Bumpass$445,007
- Virginia$412,252
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 3 Bumpass listings — the market is cooling.
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.
- Bumpass28.66%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Bumpass80
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Bumpass16
Zip codes with a Bumpass address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Bumpass — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.