Chamberlayne, Virginia.
Typical home $370,372 (+1.6% in a year). Richmond, VA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,040 (+115%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $5,810 +2%
- $364,562$370,372 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $68,453 +23%
- $301,919$370,372 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.
- Chamberlayne$1,944
- 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 Chamberlayne, VA rose 1.6% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Chamberlayne, Henrico County, Virginia
Chamberlayne, in Henrico County, had 5,581 people in the 2020 census. Half its households earn more than $97,544 a year and half less, against $88,783 across Henrico County; 7% of its people live below the poverty line. 95% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 5% are rented. Unemployment in Henrico County was 3.6% in August 2026, and the county had 3.0% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Chamberlayne is a community in Henrico County, Virginia, where residents tend to be older than in most places and nearly everyone owns the home they live in. Household incomes run higher than across the county, and a smaller share of people live below the poverty line than in many towns. A good many adults hold a four-year degree, and winters are cool and summers hot, with rain and some melted snow spread through the year.
Work. Across the town, people work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, in professional and business services, in shops, and in banks, insurance and property. Among the largest workplaces across Henrico County are Henrico County Public Schools, Amazon and Bon Secours St. Mary's Hospital. Commutes are fairly ordinary, and a good number of residents work from home.
Things to do. The Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden is a botanical garden in or beside town, and Richmond Raceway, a race track, is there too. A short drive away, the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts is an art museum, and the Edgar Allan Poe Museum is another museum within easy reach. For a longer outing, Kings Dominion is an amusement park a longer drive away.
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- 2,170households
- 50%of adults have a degree
- 7%below the poverty line
- 22 mintypical commute
- 24%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Henrico County had 193,232 jobs in 2025, 3.0% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 47° and lows near 28°; warmest in July, with highs near 89° and lows near 68°. About 46 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Ashland Hanover County Municipal Airport weather station, 6 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Henrico County
- Henrico County Public SchoolsSchool district7,583FTE
- AmazonGeneral warehousing and storage3,177
- 11DG100 Med-surg MED Surg Richmond HQMedical equipment3,032
- Altria Group Distribution CompanyTobacco products merchant wholesalers1,846
- BON Secours - St. Marys HospitalGeneral hospital1,756FTE
- Henrico Doctors HospitalGeneral hospital1,744FTE
- Virginia Department of Social Services (765)Social service agencies, family1,703
- Richmond VA RpdcMail and parcel delivery1,534
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 341 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 57,485 people in all across the county; Chamberlayne 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
- EarthquakesRelatively moderate
- Ice stormsRelatively moderate
- Winter weatherRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively moderate
- TornadoesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Chamberlayne’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 Henrico County and the Richmond, VA metro.
Chamberlayne home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Chamberlayne$370,372
- 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.
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a Chamberlayne address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Chamberlayne — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.
Zillow publishes no zip-level series with this city on the address.