Lanexa, Virginia.
Typical home $450,499 (+4.1% in a year). Richmond, VA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,293 (+121%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $17,947 +4%
- $432,553$450,499 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $102,528 +29%
- $347,971$450,499 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.
- Lanexa$2,365
- 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 Lanexa, VA rose 4.1% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Lanexa, New Kent County, Virginia
The Census does not count Lanexa on its own, so the figures here are New Kent County's. Half the county's households earn more than $123,314 a year and half less; 5% of the county's people live below the poverty line. 93% of the county's homes are lived in by their owners and 7% are rented. Unemployment in New Kent County was 2.9% in August 2026, and the county had 4.2% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in New Kent County work in schools and health care, then professional services.
Written by AI Claude Haiku 5.5 wrote this on 22 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Lanexa is a community in New Kent County, Virginia, and across the county most homes are lived in by their owners. Winters are cold and summers are warm, with only light snowfall and a good deal of rain through the year. Poverty is less common here than in many parts of the country.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, professional and business services, the building trades, or government. Unemployment has eased over the past year, and the county added jobs last year.
Things to do. The York River is a short drive away and the Pamunkey River is closer still, both good for time on the water. Colonial Williamsburg, a museum, is a longer drive away and is one of the best known sites in the area.
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- 9,263households
- 42.9median age
- 38%of adults have a degree
- 5%below the poverty line
- 33 mintypical commute
- 18%work from home
What people in New Kent County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. New Kent County had 6,309 jobs in 2025, 4.2% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 49° and lows near 28°; warmest in July, with highs near 90° and lows near 68°. About 10 inches of snow and 48 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the West Pt Northwest weather station, 9 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in New Kent County
- New Kent County Public SchoolsSchool district344FTE
- Colonial Downs Racetrack & Rosie's Gaming EmporiumThoroughbred racetracks258
- Cumberland HospitalPsychiatric and substance abuse hospitals195
- Food LionGrocery stores116
- Food LionGrocery store74
- Food LionGrocery stores68
- Food LionGrocery stores56
- LaRS GroupUtility line, construction49
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 10 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 887 people in all. 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 moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms across New Kent County, against the rest of the country; all of them together, very 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 New Kent County and the Richmond, VA metro.
Lanexa home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Lanexa$450,499
- Virginia$412,252
- United States$366,157
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.
- Lanexa17
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a Lanexa address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Lanexa — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.