Exmore, Virginia.
Typical home $208,227 (+1.9% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$612 (+127%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $3,901 +2%
- $204,326$208,227 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $49,256 +31%
- $158,971$208,227 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.
- Exmore$1,093
- Virginia$2,164
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 13 years.
Typical home values in Exmore, VA rose 1.9% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Exmore, Northampton County, Virginia
Exmore is a town of 1,473 people in Northampton County. Unemployment in Northampton County was 4.0% in August 2026, and the county had 1.5% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Northampton County work in schools and health care, then shops.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Exmore is a small town on Virginia's Eastern Shore, in Northampton County, home to only a modest number of people. Household incomes in the county sit below the Virginia norm, and poverty is more common here than across most of the country. Typical home values are modest, and few adults hold a four-year degree. Winters are cool and summers are warm. Snow is light, a few inches in a typical year, and rain is steady through the seasons.
Work. Most residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, or in restaurants, hotels and entertainment, with some in wholesale. Across Northampton County, the largest workplaces include Northampton County Public Schools, Ballard Fish & Oyster Company and Food Lion. Unemployment in the county is close to where it stood a year ago, and the county has fewer jobs than it did the year before. Few people work from home.
Things to do. The Machipongo River runs in or beside town. A longer drive away are Kiptopeke State Park, a protected area, and Hog Island, a beach. The Eastern Shore Railway Museum is also a longer drive away, for those who like local history.
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- 688households
- 10%of adults have a degree
- 29%below the poverty line
- 6%work from home
What people in Northampton County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Northampton County had 4,492 jobs in 2025, 1.5% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 48° and lows near 30°; warmest in July, with highs near 88° and lows near 69°. About 7 inches of snow and 47 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Painter West weather station, 4 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Northampton County
- Northampton County Public SchoolsSchool district317FTE
- Ballard Fish & Oyster CompanyClam production, farm raising299
- David's NurseryField nurseries129
- New RavennaCut stone products manufacturing92
- Food LionGrocery stores81
- Sun Outdoors Cape CharlesHotels, seasonal, without casinos75
- Food LionGrocery stores68
- Weeks MarineDredging35
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 9 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 823 people in all across the county; Exmore has one 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
- Strong windVery high
- HurricanesVery high
- DroughtRelatively high
- Coastal floodingRelatively moderate
- HailRelatively moderate
- Cold wavesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Exmore’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively high. 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 Northampton County.
Exmore home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Exmore$208,227
- Virginia$412,252
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 8 Exmore 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.
- Exmore12.45%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Exmore23
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Exmore6
Zip codes with a Exmore address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Exmore — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.