Hanover, Virginia.
Typical home $429,125 (+4.6% in a year). Richmond, VA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,181 (+110%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $19,048 +5%
- $410,076$429,125 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $86,575 +25%
- $342,549$429,125 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.
- Hanover$2,252
- Virginia$2,164
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 15 years.
Typical home values in Hanover, VA rose 4.6% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Hanover, Hanover County, Virginia
Hanover, in Hanover County, had 235 people in the 2020 census. Unemployment in Hanover County was 3.0% in August 2026, and the county had 3.3% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Hanover County work in schools and health care, then professional services.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Hanover is a very small community, with far fewer residents than most towns, in a county where household incomes are high and homes are valued well above what is typical for many parts of the country. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month and frosty nights, while summers turn hot by July. Rain and melted snow fall steadily across the year.
Work. Residents of the town tend to work in schools, hospitals and social care, in professional and business services, in shops, and in banks, insurance and property. Across Hanover County, the largest workplaces include Hanover County Public Schools, Memorial Regional Medical Center and Randolph-Macon College. Unemployment across the county is low and unchanged from a year earlier, though the county had somewhat fewer jobs last year than the year before.
Things to do. Kings Dominion, an amusement park, is a short drive away, and its roller coasters, such as Volcano, The Blast Coaster, are close by too. A longer drive leads to the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, a museum in the Richmond area. Richmond Raceway, a race track, is also a longer drive away.
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What people in Hanover County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Hanover County had 57,566 jobs in 2025, 3.3% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 47° and lows near 28°; warmest in July, with highs near 89° and lows near 68°. About 46 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Ashland Hanover County Municipal Airport weather station, 6 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Hanover County
- Hanover County Public SchoolsSchool district2,720FTE
- RMC EventsPromoters of conventions with or without facilities2,349
- Memorial Regional Medical CenterGeneral hospital1,199FTE
- AmazonCouriers and express delivery services1,081
- Wegmans Food MarketsGeneral warehouse and storage592
- Randolph-Macon CollegeUniversity or college506
- UnfiGeneral line grocery merchant wholesalers485
- Asplundh Tree ExpertTree trimming services479
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 152 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 19,115 people in all across the county; Hanover has none of its own. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24), hospitals from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023) and colleges from IPEDS (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
- LightningRelatively 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 Hanover’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 Hanover County and the Richmond, VA metro.
Hanover home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Hanover$429,125
- Virginia$412,252
- United States$366,157
Levy by levy, and a check of one home’s own bill, the site covers Ohio’s property tax.
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
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Hanover6
Zip codes with a Hanover address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Hanover — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.