Manquin, Virginia.
Typical home $350,083 (+4.1% in a year). Richmond, VA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,024 (+126%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $13,883 +4%
- $336,200$350,083 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $74,076 +27%
- $276,007$350,083 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.
- Manquin$1,838
- 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 Manquin, VA rose 4.1% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Manquin, King William County, Virginia
The Census does not count Manquin on its own, so the figures here are King William County's. Half the county's households earn more than $86,056 a year and half less; 6% of the county's people live below the poverty line. 89% of the county's homes are lived in by their owners and 11% are rented. Unemployment in King William County was 3.0% in August 2026, and the county had 2.7% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in King William County work in schools and health care, then construction.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Manquin is a small community in King William County, in the Virginia countryside east of Richmond. Across King William County, most homes are lived in by their owners, and renting is less common than across the country as a whole. Winters are cold, with snow that comes in only some years, and summers are hot and wet.
Work. Unemployment across King William County has stayed low, edging up only a little over the past year, and the number of jobs has grown slightly in the latest year on record. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, in the building trades, in manufacturing, or in shops. Most people drive to work, and the typical trip takes longer than the usual American commute.
Things to do. The Virginia Museum of Fine Arts is a museum a longer drive away. Kings Dominion is an amusement park a longer drive away, and the Pamunkey River is a river a longer drive away.
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- 7,352households
- 40.9median age
- 23%of adults have a degree
- 6%below the poverty line
- 36 mintypical commute
- 11%work from home
What people in King William County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. King William County had 4,314 jobs in 2025, 2.7% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 49° and lows near 29°; warmest in July, with highs near 88° and lows near 69°. About 8 inches of snow and 46 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Walkerton Northwest weather station, 9 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in King William County
- WestRock CPPaper mill550
- King William County Public SchoolsSchool district343FTE
- West Point Public SchoolsSchool district123FTE
- Builders FirstSourceEngineered wood member manufacturing98
- Food LionGrocery stores82
- Fifth Star Care ManagementSkilled nursing facilities70
- Food LionGrocery stores67
- WP VeneerManufactoring52
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 9 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,019 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 King William 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 King William County and the Richmond, VA metro.
Manquin home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Manquin$350,083
- 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.
Zip codes with a Manquin address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Manquin — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.