Claremont, Virginia.
Typical home $273,885 (+3.3% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$544 (+61%) since Feb 2022.
- 1 year
- Up $8,837 +3%
- $265,048$273,885 since Sep 2025
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.
- Claremont$1,438
- Virginia$2,164
- United States$1,922
Typical home values in Claremont, VA rose 3.3% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Claremont, Surry County, Virginia
Claremont is a town of 305 people in Surry County. Unemployment in Surry County was 3.7% in August 2026, and the county had 1.4% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Surry County work in schools and health care, then restaurants and hotels.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Claremont is a very small town on the south side of the James River in Surry County, Virginia, where most days are shaped by quiet roads, open land and neighbors who know one another. Winters are cold, with the coldest weather in January, and summers turn hot by July. Rain and melted snow add up to a good deal over the course of a year. Typical home values in town sit above what the county's incomes might suggest, and a share of residents live below the poverty line.
Work. Residents of Claremont work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, in restaurants, hotels and entertainment, in manufacturing and in the building trades. Across Surry County, the largest workplaces include Dominion Energy, which generates nuclear electric power, Surry County Public Schools and WindsorOne, a maker of wood moldings. Unemployment in the county is low and has barely changed from a year earlier, and the county has added a few more jobs than it had the year before.
Things to do. Dancing Point, an archaeological site, lies in or beside town, and the Chickahominy River is a short drive away for time near the water. Jamestown Settlement, a museum of early colonial life, is also a short drive away. Colonial Williamsburg, a larger museum of the colonial era, makes a longer outing for a full day.
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- 12%below the poverty line
What people in Surry County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Surry County had 2,203 jobs in 2025, 1.4% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 48° and lows near 27°; warmest in July, with highs near 89° and lows near 68°. About 50 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Disputanta weather station, 15 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Surry County
- Dominion EnergyNuclear electric power generation863
- Surry County Public SchoolsSchool district191FTE
- WindsorOneWood moldings91
- Virginia Department of TransportationAdministration78
- Phillips Heavy, Inc DEP Spring Grove II SolarSolar farms74
- Phillips Heavy Inc. - Dom CTW SolarTransformer station and substation, electric power, construction27
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 5 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,133 people in all across the county; Claremont has none of its own. 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
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- DroughtRelatively moderate
- Coastal floodingRelatively moderate
- HurricanesRelatively moderate
- HailRelatively moderate
- Ice stormsRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Claremont’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 Surry County.
Claremont home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Claremont$273,885
- 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.
Zip codes with a Claremont address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Claremont — 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.