North, Virginia.
Typical home $298,852 (+2.6% in a year). Virginia Beach-Norfolk-Newport News, VA-NC metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$821 (+110%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $7,471 +3%
- $291,380$298,852 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $56,301 +23%
- $242,551$298,852 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.
- North$1,569
- Virginia$2,164
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 17 years.
Typical home values in North, VA rose 2.6% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in North, Gloucester County, Virginia
The Census does not count North on its own, so the figures here are Gloucester County's. Half the county's households earn more than $84,306 a year and half less; 5% of the county's people live below the poverty line. 80% of the county's homes are lived in by their owners and 20% are rented. Unemployment in Gloucester County was 2.9% in August 2026, and the county had 0.1% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Gloucester County work in schools and health care, then shops.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. North is in Gloucester County, Virginia, where winters are cold, with some snow, and summers are hot and wet. Across Gloucester County, most homes are lived in by their owners. Residents span many ages.
Work. Residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, shops, manufacturing and the building trades. Unemployment has held steady over the past year, and the number of jobs has barely changed. A minority of adults hold a four-year degree, and a small share of workers work from home.
Things to do. Colonial Williamsburg, a museum a longer drive away, is one of the best known places to visit nearby. Werowocomoco, an archaeological site also a longer drive away, is worth a trip for those interested in history. For something closer, North River, a river a short drive away, is nearby.
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- 15,274households
- 44.8median age
- 25%of adults have a degree
- 5%below the poverty line
- 35 mintypical commute
- 11%work from home
What people in Gloucester County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Gloucester County had 10,113 jobs in 2025, 0.1% 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, a mile away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Gloucester County
- Gloucester County Public SchoolsSchool district919FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters380
- Riverside Walter ReedGeneral hospital340FTE
- Gloucester CountyGeneral public administration334
- Rappahannock Community CollegeTwo-year college267
- Walter Reed OperatorSkilled nursing facilities141
- Lowe's Companies, INCHomecenter122
- Riverside Health SystemConvalescent homes or convalescent hospitals110
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 22 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 2,345 people in all. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24), hospitals from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023) and colleges from IPEDS (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
- Coastal floodingRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms across Gloucester 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 Gloucester County and the Virginia Beach-Norfolk-Newport News, VA-NC metro.
North home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- North$298,852
- 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 North address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls North — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.
Zillow publishes no zip-level series with this city on the address.