McKenney, Virginia.
Typical home $271,176 (+6.0% in a year). Richmond, VA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$889 (+166%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $15,280 +6%
- $255,895$271,176 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $84,680 +45%
- $186,496$271,176 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.
- McKenney$1,423
- Virginia$2,164
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 9 years.
Typical home values in McKenney, VA rose 6.0% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in McKenney, Dinwiddie County, Virginia
McKenney is a town of 457 people in Dinwiddie County. Unemployment in Dinwiddie County was 3.7% in August 2026, and the county had 10.2% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Dinwiddie County work in schools and health care, then shops.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. McKenney is a very small town in Dinwiddie County, Virginia, with far fewer people than most American towns. Homes here are typically valued at somewhat less than in much of the country, and few adults hold a four-year degree. Winters are cold, with freezing nights common in January, but snow is light and the town sees little of it in a year. Summers are warm, and rain is steady through the year.
Work. Residents most often work in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by shops, government and manufacturing. Almost no one works from home. Across Dinwiddie County, some of the largest workplaces are Walmart, Amazon and Dinwiddie County Public Schools. The county has had fewer jobs than the year before, and its unemployment rate is a little higher than a year ago.
Things to do. Petersburg National Battlefield, a Civil War archaeological site, is a longer drive away. So is Pamplin Historical Park, a park with a history focus, and Pocahontas State Park, a protected area for walking and time outdoors. The Metro Richmond Zoo is also a longer drive away for a day with family.
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- 7%of adults have a degree
- 1%work from home
What people in Dinwiddie County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Dinwiddie County had 9,269 jobs in 2025, 10.2% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 48° and lows near 26°; warmest in July, with highs near 88° and lows near 68°. About 3 inches of snow and 47 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Fort Pickett weather station, 13 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Dinwiddie County
- WalmartGeneral warehousing and storage1,126
- AmazonGeneral warehousing and storage1,033
- Dinwiddie County Public SchoolsSchool district681FTE
- Tindall Corporation - Virginia DivisionConcrete products, precast, manufacturing450
- GerdauFlakes, iron or steel, made in iron and steel mills443
- PET - Aldi Virginia272
- Dominion EnergyElectric power distribution117
- Food LionGrocery stores96
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 18 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 3,989 people in all across the county; McKenney 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
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- HurricanesRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively moderate
- TornadoesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in McKenney’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 Dinwiddie County and the Richmond, VA metro.
McKenney home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- McKenney$271,176
- 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.
- McKenney9
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a McKenney address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls McKenney — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.