Prince George, Virginia.
Typical home $348,761 (+2.8% in a year), asking rent $2,395 . Richmond, VA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,029 (+129%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $9,412 +3%
- $339,349$348,761 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $81,045 +30%
- $267,716$348,761 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.
- Prince George$1,831
- 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 Prince George, VA rose 2.8% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Prince George, Prince George County, Virginia
Prince George, in Prince George County, had 2,315 people in the 2020 census. Half its households earn more than $61,571 a year and half less, against $84,897 across Prince George County. Unemployment in Prince George County was 3.2% in August 2026, and the county had 4.3% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Prince George County work in schools and health care, then government.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Prince George is a small community in Virginia, with household incomes below the county's, though the typical home here is valued at a good deal more than many would guess for a place this size. Winters are cool, with a little snow most years, and summers turn properly hot. Rain and melted snow fall steadily through the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with government, shops and manufacturing close behind. Across Prince George County, the largest workplaces include Prince George County Public Schools, Amazon and Perdue Foods. Jobs across the county grew over the past year, and the typical commute is a modest one, with few people working from home.
Things to do. For time outdoors, the James River National Wildlife Refuge is a protected area a short drive away, and the Appomattox River is close by as well. Petersburg National Battlefield, an archaeological site, is also a short drive away. The Virginia Museum of Fine Arts is a longer drive away, for a day out in a museum.
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- 24 mintypical commute
- 6%work from home
What people in Prince George County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Prince George County had 15,576 jobs in 2025, 4.3% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 50° and lows near 31°; warmest in July, with highs near 90° and lows near 71°. About 4 inches of snow and 50 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Hopewell weather station, 5 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Prince George County
- Prince George County Public SchoolsSchool district828FTE
- Quality Plus ServicesConstruction management, industrial building544
- AmazonGeneral warehousing and storage537
- ADUSA Dist DC 20 DisputantaGeneral warehousing and stora522
- Perdue FoodsRefrigerated warehousing and storage502
- Standard Motor ProductsGeneral warehousing and storage493
- SCM IndustriesBar, aluminum, made in integrated secondary smelting and extruding mills386
- Richard Bland CollegeTwo-year college253
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 30 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 4,929 people in all across the county; Prince George has two of its own. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24) 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 high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- HurricanesRelatively moderate
- Ice stormsRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Prince George’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 Prince George County and the Richmond, VA metro.
Prince George home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Prince George$348,761
- 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.
- Prince George18
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Prince George7
Zip codes with a Prince George address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Prince George — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.