Halifax, Virginia.
Typical home $173,622 (+9.7% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$541 (+146%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $15,323 +10%
- $158,299$173,622 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $58,638 +51%
- $114,984$173,622 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.
- Halifax$911
- Virginia$2,164
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 8 years.
Typical home values in Halifax, VA rose 9.7% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Halifax, Halifax County, Virginia
Halifax is a town of 1,118 people in Halifax County. Half its households earn more than $55,792 a year and half less, against $52,013 across Halifax County; 12% of its people live below the poverty line. 72% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 28% are rented. Unemployment in Halifax County was 4.8% in August 2026, and the county had 0.3% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Halifax County work in schools and health care, then manufacturing.
Written by AI Claude Sonnet 5.5 wrote this on 24 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Halifax is a small town in southern Virginia, and its residents are older than in most of the country. Most homes are lived in by their owners, and household incomes run above the county's. A good share of adults hold a four-year degree, and the typical trip to work is a short one.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, shops and the building trades close behind. Across Halifax County, some of the largest workplaces are Halifax County Public Schools, Halifax Regional Hospital and Hitachi Energy USA in South Boston. Jobs across the county have dipped slightly over the past year, and unemployment there is a little lower than it was a year ago.
Things to do. South Boston Speedway, a race track, is a short drive away, and so are the small waterways of Wolf Trap Creek and Bowle Spring Branch. Staunton River State Park is a protected area a longer drive off, and Virginia International Raceway is another race track at about the same distance. Winters are cool and bring a little snow, summers get hot, and rain falls fairly steadily through the year.
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- 619households
- 37%of adults have a degree
- 12%below the poverty line
- 18 mintypical commute
What people in Halifax County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Halifax County had 11,810 jobs in 2025, 0.3% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 51° and lows near 26°; warmest in July, with highs near 90° and lows near 67°. About 6 inches of snow and 46 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the South Boston weather station, 5 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Halifax County
- Halifax County Public SchoolsSchool district938FTE
- Hitachi Energy USA, inc. South BostonPower transformers, electric, manufacturing699
- Halifax Regional HospitalGeneral hospital348FTE
- Reynolds Presto ProductsFood storage bags, plastics film, single wall or multiwall, manufacturing332
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters290
- Sunshine Mills HalifaxPet food, dog and cat, manufacturing212
- Hot Rock HaulersGeneral freight trucking, local168
- Huber Engineered Woods, LLC, Crystal HillOriented strandboard manufacturing160
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 28 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 3,817 people in all across the county; Halifax has two 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
- LightningRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- 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 Halifax’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 Halifax County.
Halifax home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Halifax$173,622
- Virginia$412,252
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 4 Halifax 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.
- Halifax25.41%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Halifax25
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Halifax6
Zip codes with a Halifax address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Halifax — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.