Chase City, Virginia.
Typical home $147,092 (+8.2% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$466 (+152%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $11,103 +8%
- $135,990$147,092 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $40,731 +38%
- $106,362$147,092 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.
- Chase City$772
- Virginia$2,164
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 11 years.
Typical home values in Chase City, VA rose 8.2% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Chase City, Mecklenburg County, Virginia
Chase City is a town of 2,053 people in Mecklenburg County. Half its households earn more than $45,843 a year and half less, against $57,045 across Mecklenburg County; 17% of its people live below the poverty line. 58% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 42% 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 residents work in schools and health care, then manufacturing.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Chase City is a small town in Mecklenburg County, Virginia, where most homes are lived in by their owners. Incomes in town run below the county's, and typical home values are modest. Few adults have a four-year degree, and winters are cold but short on snow, with summers that turn hot in July.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by manufacturing, restaurants and hotels, and shops. Across Mecklenburg County, the largest workplaces include Mecklenburg County Public Schools, Community Memorial Hospital and Walmart. The drive to work is a fairly long one, and very few people work from home.
Things to do. The South Meherrin River and the Middle Meherrin River are both a short drive away, for time along the water. A longer drive brings you to Kerr Lake, a large reservoir, and to Staunton River State Park, a protected area for walking and the outdoors. For something different, South Boston Speedway is a race track, also a longer drive away.
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- 1,103households
- 14%of adults have a degree
- 17%below the poverty line
- 26 mintypical commute
- 2%work from home
What residents 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 49° and lows near 29°; warmest in July, with highs near 89° and lows near 68°. About 5 inches of snow and 46 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Chase City weather station, 2 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; Chase City has one 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
- Winter weatherRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Chase City’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.
Chase City home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Chase City$147,092
- Virginia$412,252
- United States$366,157
Levy by levy, and a check of one home’s own bill, the site covers Ohio’s property tax.
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 4 Chase City listings — the market is roughly in balance.
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.
- Chase City24.48%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Chase City26
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Chase City6
Zip codes with a Chase City address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Chase City — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.