Sandy Hook, Virginia.
Typical home $537,762 (+4.3% in a year). Richmond, VA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,548 (+121%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $22,312 +4%
- $515,450$537,762 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $124,457 +30%
- $413,305$537,762 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.
- Sandy Hook$2,823
- 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 Sandy Hook, VA rose 4.3% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Sandy Hook, Goochland County, Virginia
The Census does not count Sandy Hook on its own, so the figures here are Goochland County's. Half the county's households earn more than $118,931 a year and half less; 5% of the county's people live below the poverty line. 85% of the county's homes are lived in by their owners and 15% are rented. Unemployment in Goochland County was 3.3% in August 2026, and the county had 1.4% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Goochland County work in schools and health care, then professional services.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Sandy Hook is a small community in Goochland County, Virginia, where most homes are lived in by their owners and a large share of the county's residents have settled in for the long run. Winters are cold, with snow that comes less often than in much of the country, and summers are warm. Rain falls more heavily here than in much of the country, so the seasons tend to be green and damp.
Work. Many people in Goochland County work in schools, hospitals and social care, or in professional and business services. Jobs have grown a little in recent years, and unemployment is low. Fewer residents live below the poverty line than across the country, and a larger share of adults hold a college degree than the national norm. Working from home is more common here than across the country.
Things to do. Powhatan State Park is a protected area a short drive away, a good place for walks and time outdoors. Kings Dominion, an amusement park, and Lake Anna, a reservoir, are both a longer drive away and make a good day trip.
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- 10,342households
- 50.5median age
- 46%of adults have a degree
- 5%below the poverty line
- 30 mintypical commute
- 19%work from home
What people in Goochland County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Goochland County had 18,926 jobs in 2025, 1.4% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 46° and lows near 26°; warmest in July, with highs near 87° and lows near 66°. About 10 inches of snow and 45 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Crozier weather station, 9 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Goochland County
- Pfg Westcreek (Corporate)551
- Sheltering Arms InstitutePhysical rehabilitation hospitals410
- Goochland County Public SchoolsSchool district350FTE
- Foodservice Corporate314
- Caldwell & GregoryVending machine merchandisers, sale of products155
- Young Men's Christian Association of Greater RichmondMembership associations, civic or social134
- Johnson ControlsPlumbing, heating and ac82
- Food LionGrocery stores78
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 28 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 2,678 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 Goochland 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 Goochland County and the Richmond, VA metro.
Sandy Hook home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Sandy Hook$537,762
- 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.
- Sandy Hook8
Zip codes with a Sandy Hook address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Sandy Hook — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.