Ivor, Virginia.
Typical home $301,777 (+4.4% in a year). Virginia Beach-Norfolk-Newport News, VA-NC metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$867 (+121%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $12,585 +4%
- $289,193$301,777 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $68,417 +29%
- $233,360$301,777 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.
- Ivor$1,584
- 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 Ivor, VA rose 4.4% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Ivor, Southampton County, Virginia
Ivor is a town of 312 people in Southampton County. Unemployment in Southampton County was 3.7% in August 2026, and the county had 2.8% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Southampton 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Ivor is a very small town in Southampton County, Virginia, where people are likely to know one another by sight. Household incomes across the county sit near the middle of what is typical, and a typical home in town costs less than in much of the country. Winters are cool and fairly mild, with January the coldest month and highs staying above freezing, while summers turn hot, especially in July. Rain and melted snow arrive in good measure through the year.
Work. Residents of Ivor work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with others in professional and business services, manufacturing and government. Across Southampton County, the largest workplaces include Southampton County Public Schools, the Virginia Department of Corrections and Hampton Farms, which makes roasted nuts and peanut butter. Few adults in town hold a four-year degree, and the typical commute is a long one, which is common where jobs are spread out and the nearest are in other towns. County jobs fell a little last year, and unemployment is little changed from a year ago.
Things to do. Blackwater Ecological Preserve and Antioch Pines Natural Area Preserve, both protected natural areas, are a short drive away and suit a walk among the pines and wetlands of the region. A longer drive brings you to Colonial Williamsburg, the museum of colonial life that is one of the best known in Virginia, and to Busch Gardens Williamsburg, a zoo and amusement park. The James River is also a longer drive away for those who like to be near water.
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- 13%of adults have a degree
- 9%below the poverty line
- 33 mintypical commute
- 11%work from home
What people in Southampton County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Southampton County had 3,487 jobs in 2025, 2.8% fewer 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, 8 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Southampton County
- Southampton County Public SchoolsSchool district497FTE
- Virginia Department of CorrectionsPrisons434
- Hampton FarmsRoasted nuts and peanut butter manufacturing119
- Enviva SouthamptonManufacture of wood pellets100
- Courtland Rehabilitation and Healthcare CenterSkilled nursing facilities91
- Solenis Supply Chain Manufacturing - FranklinNatural nonfood coloring, manufacturing74
- Food LionGrocery stores72
- Cheroenhaka Nottoway EnterprisesCommercial building construction general contractors56
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 12 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,103 people in all across the county; Ivor 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 high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively moderate
- HailRelatively moderate
- Heat wavesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Ivor’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 Southampton County and the Virginia Beach-Norfolk-Newport News, VA-NC metro.
Ivor home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Ivor$301,777
- 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.
- Ivor6
Zip codes with a Ivor address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Ivor — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.