Sedley, Virginia.
Typical home $281,840 (+1.7% in a year). Virginia Beach-Norfolk-Newport News, VA-NC metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$777 (+111%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $4,755 +2%
- $277,085$281,840 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $49,256 +21%
- $232,584$281,840 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.
- Sedley$1,479
- Virginia$2,164
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 18 years.
Typical home values in Sedley, VA rose 1.7% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Sedley, Southampton County, Virginia
Sedley, in Southampton County, had 517 people in the 2020 census. 96% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 4% are rented. Unemployment in Southampton County was 3.7% in August 2026, and the county had 2.8% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Southampton County work in schools and health care, then professional services.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Sedley is a very small community in Southampton County, Virginia, where nearly everyone owns the home they live in. Poverty is less common here than in many places, and homes are valued at a fairly modest level. Winters are cold but short on snow, with January highs near the freezing mark of the Fahrenheit scale's low end and summers that turn hot by July, and rain falls through the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, in professional and business services, in manufacturing and in government. Very few work from home, and across Southampton County the number of jobs slipped a little last year. Among the county's largest workplaces are Southampton County Public Schools, Hampton Farms and the Courtland Rehabilitation and Healthcare Center.
Things to do. For time outdoors, Antioch Pines Natural Area Preserve and Blackwater Ecological Preserve are both protected areas a short drive away, and Three Creek, a river, is close by too. A longer drive brings you to the Meherrin River or to Merchants Millpond State Park, a protected area for walking and watching wildlife.
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- 4%below the poverty line
- 3%work from home
What people in Southampton County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Southampton County had 3,487 jobs in 2025, 2.8% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 50° and lows near 29°; warmest in July, with highs near 89° and lows near 69°. About 4 inches of snow and 48 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Holland East weather station, 14 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Southampton County
- Southampton County Public SchoolsSchool district497FTE
- Virginia Department of CorrectionsPrisons434
- Hampton FarmsRoasted nuts and peanut butter manufacturing119
- Enviva SouthamptonManufacture of wood pellets100
- Courtland Rehabilitation and Healthcare CenterSkilled nursing facilities91
- Solenis Supply Chain Manufacturing - FranklinNatural nonfood coloring, manufacturing74
- Food LionGrocery stores72
- Cheroenhaka Nottoway EnterprisesCommercial building construction general contractors56
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 12 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,103 people in all across the county; Sedley 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
- HurricanesRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively moderate
- HailRelatively moderate
- Heat wavesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Sedley’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 Southampton County and the Virginia Beach-Norfolk-Newport News, VA-NC metro.
Sedley home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Sedley$281,840
- 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.
- Sedley5
Zip codes with a Sedley address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Sedley — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.