Elberon, Virginia.
Typical home $265,018 (-0.1% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$674 (+94%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $304 -0%
- $265,321$265,018 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $31,636 +14%
- $233,382$265,018 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.
- Elberon$1,391
- Virginia$2,164
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 27 years.
Typical home values in Elberon, VA fell 0.1% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Elberon, Surry County, Virginia
The Census does not count Elberon on its own, so the figures here are Surry County's. Half the county's households earn more than $78,041 a year and half less; 10% 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 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 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Elberon is a small town in Surry County, Virginia, where most homes are lived in by their owners rather than rented out. The county's residents are older on average than the nation as a whole, and many people have lived in the area for years. Winters are cold, summers are warm, and the rain and melted snow over a year make for a wet climate.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, or in restaurants, hotels and entertainment. Manufacturing and the building trades also employ people here. Jobs grew slightly last year, unemployment is a little higher than it was a year ago, and few people work from home, so most commute to work, often for a long time.
Things to do. Chippokes Plantation State Park, a protected area, is a short drive away and offers open land and quiet walks. Further off, James River is a river that visitors reach by a longer drive. Colonial Williamsburg, a museum, is also a longer drive away.
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- 2,830households
- 50.4median age
- 27%of adults have a degree
- 10%below the poverty line
- 42 mintypical commute
- 7%work from home
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, 11 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. 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 moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms across Surry 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 Surry County.
Elberon home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Elberon$265,018
- 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 Elberon address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Elberon — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.