Skippers, Virginia.
Typical home $162,471 (+3.2% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$486 (+133%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $4,989 +3%
- $157,481$162,471 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $28,693 +21%
- $133,778$162,471 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.
- Skippers$853
- 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 Skippers, VA rose 3.2% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Skippers, Greensville County, Virginia
The Census does not count Skippers on its own, so the figures here are Greensville County's. Half the county's households earn more than $54,668 a year and half less; 14% of the county's people live below the poverty line. 66% of the county's homes are lived in by their owners and 34% are rented. Unemployment in Greensville County was 5.9% in August 2026, and the county had 11.8% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Greensville 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Skippers is in Greensville County in southern Virginia, where most homes are lived in by their owners. Winters are mild with little snow, summers are hot, and the area gets plenty of rain through the year.
Work. Across the county, many people work in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, in government, and in manufacturing. Unemployment is lower than a year earlier, though the number of jobs fell over the same year. Few residents work from home, so most people travel to a workplace each day.
Things to do. Lake Gaston, a reservoir, and Medoc Mountain State Park, a protected area, are both a longer drive away. Fort Christanna, an archaeological site, is also a longer drive away.
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- 3,199households
- 39.8median age
- 15%of adults have a degree
- 14%below the poverty line
- 29 mintypical commute
- 4%work from home
What people in Greensville County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Greensville County had 3,360 jobs in 2025, 11.8% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 51° and lows near 29°; warmest in July, with highs near 90° and lows near 69°. About 1 inches of snow and 46 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Emporia Wnw weather station, 8 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Greensville County
- Greensville Correctional CenterCorrectional institutions483
- Jackson-Feild Behavioral Health Services; Jarratt CampusMental health facilities, residential133
- Heyco Werk USAWindshields, plastics, manufacturing124
- Boar's Head Brand Provisions Company Inc./ JarrattMeats, cured or smoked, made from purchased carcasses117
- P&S Transportation EmporiaFlatbed trucking, long-distance105
- FedExCourier and express delivery services60
- Dominion EnergyFossil fuel electric power generation48
- First Response Rail ServiceIndustrial equipment and machinery repair and maintenance services32
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 9 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,130 people in all. 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
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms across Greensville 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 Greensville County.
Skippers home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Skippers$162,471
- 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 Skippers address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Skippers — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.