Lakeside, Virginia.
Typical home $340,289 (+1.8% in a year), asking rent $2,333 . Richmond, VA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,001 (+127%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $6,057 +2%
- $334,232$340,289 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $79,641 +31%
- $260,648$340,289 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.
- Lakeside$1,786
- 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 Lakeside, VA rose 1.8% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Owning the typical home in Lakeside runs $20/mo more than renting one. The gap peaked at $86 in Feb 2026.
That is $2,353 a month against $2,333 rent: a $1,786 mortgage payment, plus $202 property tax and $364 insurance & upkeep.
Owning vs renting — Lakeside
The owning line is the typical home's monthly payment at that month's rate, plus property tax and insurance & upkeep; the renting line is the typical asking rent; the grey line is the mortgage payment on its own. Same homes, same months, both ways of paying for a roof.
- Owning all in$2,353
- Renting$2,333
- Mortgage only$1,786
Property tax · $202/mo 0.71% of value a year — the ACS 2020-2024 median bill over the median home value for Henrico County, VA
Insurance & upkeep · $364/mo insurance, maintenance and repairs together, from the BLS Consumer Expenditure Survey — the national figure for mortgaged homeowners, scaled to this market's home value. BLS publishes the three bundled and they cannot be split.
Both are priced off the same month's home value, so they rise with the market. Neither is a quote — a specific home's bill depends on its assessment, its age and its insurer.
Living in Lakeside, Henrico County, Virginia
Lakeside, in Henrico County, had 12,203 people in the 2020 census. Half its households earn more than $72,032 a year and half less, against $88,783 across Henrico County; 12% of its people live below the poverty line. 65% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 35% are rented. Unemployment in Henrico County was 3.6% in August 2026, and the county had 3.0% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents 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. Lakeside is a community in Henrico County, on the northern side of the Richmond area. Its residents are somewhat younger than in many American towns, and most households own the homes they live in. Incomes are lower than across the county as a whole, and a good share of adults have a four-year degree. Winters are cold but not severe, summers are hot, and rain and melted snow fall steadily through the year.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, with others in professional and business services, shops, and banks, insurance and property. Within Lakeside itself, Lakeside Health & Rehab, a nursing home, is among the largest workplaces, alongside Foodservice Virginia and the lawn care business G. Grattan. A typical commute is fairly short, and a good number of people work from home. Henrico County has been adding jobs, and unemployment there is about where it was a year ago.
Things to do. Lakeside Botanical Garden is not on the list, but Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden is in or beside town, and so is Bryan Park, a large garden and green space. A short drive away is the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, one of the best known art museums in the region. For a bigger day out, Kings Dominion, an amusement park, is a longer drive away.
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- 5,648households
- 40%of adults have a degree
- 12%below the poverty line
- 20 mintypical commute
- 24%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Henrico County had 193,232 jobs in 2025, 3.0% more 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, 7 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Lakeside
- Lakeside Health & RehabNursing homes186
- Foodservice Virginia140
- G. GrattanLawn care82
- ACE ElectricElectrical contractor80
- Acoustical SolutionsAcoustical ceiling tile and panel installation68
- ACES Controls, LLC (Richmond)Heating, ventilation and air-conditioning contractors62
- Johns ManvilleLaminating purchased foil sheets for nonpackaging applications55
- Royal XSiding contractors40
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 16 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 915 people in all. 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
- EarthquakesRelatively moderate
- Winter weatherRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively moderate
- Inland floodingRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Lakeside’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 Henrico County and the Richmond, VA metro.
Lakeside home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Lakeside$340,289
- Virginia$412,252
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 4 Lakeside listings — the market is heating up.
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.
- Lakeside24.65%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Lakeside31
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Lakeside15
Median sale price
What buyers actually paid — closed sales, not asking prices.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a Lakeside address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Lakeside — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.