Seaford, Virginia.
Typical home $497,371 (+2.0% in a year). Virginia Beach-Norfolk-Newport News, VA-NC metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,347 (+107%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $9,908 +2%
- $487,462$497,371 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $101,645 +26%
- $395,726$497,371 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.
- Seaford$2,611
- Virginia$2,164
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 15 years.
Typical home values in Seaford, VA rose 2.0% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Seaford, York County, Virginia
The Census does not count Seaford on its own, so the figures here are York County's. Half the county's households earn more than $109,956 a year and half less; 6% of the county's people live below the poverty line. 72% of the county's homes are lived in by their owners and 28% are rented. Unemployment in York County was 3.3% in August 2026, and the county had 1.8% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in York 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Seaford is a community in York County on the Virginia Peninsula. Across the county, most homes are lived in by their owners, household incomes are generally comfortable, and few residents live in poverty. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month, while July is warm to hot, and the area is wet through much of the year with plenty of rain and melted snow.
Work. Unemployment across York County is low and was no higher recently than a year earlier, and the number of jobs grew slightly in the latest year. Residents most often work in schools, hospitals and social care, professional and business services, government, and manufacturing. Many adults hold a college degree, and most people commute to work, though a minority work from home.
Things to do. The Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Museum is in or beside town, making it an easy visit. Colonial National Historical Park, a protected area, is a short drive away. The James River, a river, is a longer drive off.
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- 26,968households
- 39.9median age
- 50%of adults have a degree
- 6%below the poverty line
- 23 mintypical commute
- 14%work from home
What people in York County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. York County had 22,567 jobs in 2025, 1.8% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 49° and lows near 31°; warmest in July, with highs near 88° and lows near 70°. About 45 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Newport News International Airport weather station, 6 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in York County
- York County Public SchoolsSchool district3,407FTE
- York CountyFire departments)639
- Anheuser-Busch Brewing PropertiesBreweries513
- Great Wolf Lodge WilliamsburgResort hotels without casinos446
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters420
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters377
- Coastal Virginia RehabSpecialty hospitals237
- Kroger Mid-Atlantic KMASupermarkets and other grocery except convenience stores165
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 53 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 5,341 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
- HurricanesRelatively moderate
- Ice stormsRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms across York County, 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 York County and the Virginia Beach-Norfolk-Newport News, VA-NC metro.
Seaford home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Seaford$497,371
- 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.
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 4 Seaford listings — the market is roughly in balance.
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
Share of listings with a price cut
The early-warning dial: sellers cut when buyers stop reaching. Rising cuts cool a market months before prices notice.
- Seaford26.87%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Seaford22
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Seaford5
Zip codes with a Seaford address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Seaford — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.