Mathews, Virginia.
Typical home $327,571 (+2.5% in a year). Virginia Beach-Norfolk-Newport News, VA-NC metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$815 (+90%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $7,870 +2%
- $319,702$327,571 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $44,861 +16%
- $282,710$327,571 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.
- Mathews$1,719
- Virginia$2,164
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 24 years.
Typical home values in Mathews, VA rose 2.5% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Mathews, Mathews County, Virginia
Mathews, in Mathews County, had 525 people in the 2020 census. Unemployment in Mathews County was 3.4% in August 2026, and the county had 0.8% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Mathews County work in schools and health care, then construction.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Mathews is a very small community on Virginia's Middle Peninsula, where nearly everyone lives close to the water. Home values here run a little above what the county's incomes might suggest, and the community is quiet in the way small places usually are. Winters are cold but short on snow, summers are hot, and the year brings a fair amount of rain.
Work. Most residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by the building trades, shops, and restaurants and hotels. Mathews County Public Schools, Food Lion and Riverside Convalescent Center-Mathews are among the largest workplaces in town. Very few people work from home, and unemployment across the county has eased slightly over the past year, with the number of jobs edging up.
Things to do. Bethel Beach Natural Area Preserve, a protected area, and Fort Cricket Hill, an old fort, are both a short drive away. A longer drive leads to Colonial Williamsburg, a museum of early American life, and to the Rappahannock River, one of the region's major rivers.
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What people in Mathews County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Mathews County had 1,589 jobs in 2025, 0.8% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 47° and lows near 29°; warmest in July, with highs near 85° and lows near 70°. About 8 inches of snow and 52 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the North weather station, 6 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Mathews
- Mathews County Public SchoolsSchool district207FTE
- Food LionGrocery stores66
- Riverside Convalescent Center-MathewsConvalescent homes or convalescent hospitals63
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 2 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 129 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
- Coastal floodingRelatively high
- DroughtRelatively moderate
- HurricanesRelatively 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 Mathews’ 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 Mathews County and the Virginia Beach-Norfolk-Newport News, VA-NC metro.
Mathews home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Mathews$327,571
- 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.
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Zip codes with a Mathews address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Mathews — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.