Dendron, Virginia.
Typical home $226,258 (-0.1% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$381 (+47%) since Feb 2022.
- 1 year
- Down $319 -0%
- $226,577$226,258 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.
- Dendron$1,188
- Virginia$2,164
- United States$1,922
Typical home values in Dendron, VA fell 0.1% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Dendron, Surry County, Virginia
Dendron is a town of 251 people in Surry County. Half its households earn more than $58,214 a year and half less, against $78,041 across Surry County; 6% of its people live below the poverty line. 86% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 14% are rented. 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Dendron is a very small town in Surry County, Virginia, with far fewer residents than most towns in the state. Nearly everyone owns the home they live in, and the typical home value is well below what many Virginia homeowners would expect to pay. Household incomes run below the county's, and winters are cold but not severe, with the warmest weather in July and the coldest in January. Rain and melted snow fall steadily across the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with others in restaurants and hotels, manufacturing and the building trades. Across Surry County, some of the largest workplaces are Dominion Energy, which runs a nuclear power station, Surry County Public Schools and WindsorOne, a maker of wood moldings. The typical commute is a long one.
Things to do. The closest outing is Dendron Swamp Natural Area Preserve, a protected area a short drive away. Farther afield, a longer drive brings you to Colonial Williamsburg, a museum of the colonial era, and to Busch Gardens Williamsburg, a zoo and amusement park. The James River, one of the best known rivers in Virginia, is also a longer drive from town.
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- 6%below the poverty line
- 39 mintypical commute
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 50° and lows near 30°; warmest in July, with highs near 90° and lows near 69°. About 50 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Norfolk Rich weather station, 6 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; Dendron 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
- DroughtRelatively high
- HurricanesRelatively moderate
- HailRelatively moderate
- Winter weatherRelatively moderate
- Ice stormsRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Dendron’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively moderate. 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.
Dendron home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Dendron$226,258
- 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 Dendron address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Dendron — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.