Carson, Virginia.
Typical home $343,862 (+4.1% in a year). Richmond, VA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,030 (+133%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $13,600 +4%
- $330,262$343,862 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $86,261 +33%
- $257,601$343,862 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.
- Carson$1,805
- Virginia$2,164
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 12 years.
Typical home values in Carson, VA rose 4.1% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Carson, Dinwiddie County, Virginia
The Census does not count Carson on its own, so the figures here are Dinwiddie County's. Half the county's households earn more than $83,704 a year and half less; 12% of the county's people live below the poverty line. 80% of the county's homes are lived in by their owners and 20% are rented. Unemployment in Dinwiddie County was 3.7% in August 2026, and the county had 10.2% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Dinwiddie 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Carson is a rural community in Dinwiddie County, in south-central Virginia. Most homes across the county are lived in by their owners, and the people who live there tend to have lower incomes than the county's wider average would suggest. Winters are colder than in much of the country, with some snow most years, while summers are hot and rain falls often.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, in government offices, or in manufacturing. Across the county, fewer adults hold a four-year degree than in most of the country, and fewer people work from home. Jobs have become scarcer in the county recently, and unemployment is a little higher than it was a year earlier.
Things to do. Cactus Hill, an archaeological site, is a short drive away and is one of the best known places nearby. The Appomattox River is a longer drive away and offers a quiet riverside setting. Pamplin Historical Park, also a longer drive away, is a park with room to walk and spend an afternoon.
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- 10,661households
- 43.1median age
- 19%of adults have a degree
- 12%below the poverty line
- 31 mintypical commute
- 11%work from home
What people in Dinwiddie County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Dinwiddie County had 9,269 jobs in 2025, 10.2% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 49° and lows near 27°; warmest in July, with highs near 90° and lows near 68°. About 4 inches of snow and 48 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Stony Creek North weather station, 3 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Dinwiddie County
- WalmartGeneral warehousing and storage1,126
- AmazonGeneral warehousing and storage1,033
- Dinwiddie County Public SchoolsSchool district681FTE
- Tindall Corporation - Virginia DivisionConcrete products, precast, manufacturing450
- GerdauFlakes, iron or steel, made in iron and steel mills443
- PET - Aldi Virginia272
- Dominion EnergyElectric power distribution117
- Food LionGrocery stores96
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 18 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 3,989 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
- DroughtRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms across Dinwiddie 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 Dinwiddie County and the Richmond, VA metro.
Carson home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Carson$343,862
- 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 Carson address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Carson — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.