Surry, Virginia.
Typical home $307,562 (-1.3% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$773 (+92%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $3,903 -1%
- $311,465$307,562 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $29,747 +11%
- $277,815$307,562 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.
- Surry$1,614
- Virginia$2,164
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 34 years.
Typical home values in Surry, VA fell 1.3% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Surry, Surry County, Virginia
Surry is a town of 208 people in Surry County. Half its households earn more than $85,417 a year and half less, against $78,041 across Surry County; 2% of its people live below the poverty line. 99% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 1% are rented. Unemployment in Surry County was 3.7% in August 2026, and the county had 1.4% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Surry County work in schools and health care, then restaurants and hotels.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Surry is a very small town in Surry County, Virginia, where almost every home is lived in by its owners and very few households fall below the poverty line. Household incomes are higher than across the county as a whole. Winters are cold, with highs near freezing-to-cool levels in January and only a little snow, while July brings hot summer days and the year is fairly wet.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with others in restaurants, hotels and entertainment, in manufacturing, and in the building trades. Across Surry County, the largest workplaces include Dominion Energy, which generates nuclear electric power, Surry County Public Schools and WindsorOne, a maker of wood moldings. Unemployment across the county is about where it was a year ago, and the county has a few more jobs than it did the year before.
Things to do. A short drive away, Jamestown Settlement is a museum of early colonial life, and the Colonial Parkway is a protected scenic route. The Chickahominy River is also a short drive off, for time on the water. A longer drive takes you to Colonial Williamsburg, a museum of the colonial town.
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- 2%below the poverty line
What people in Surry County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Surry County had 2,203 jobs in 2025, 1.4% 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 4 inches of snow and 51 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Williamsburg North weather station, 13 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Surry County
- Dominion EnergyNuclear electric power generation863
- Surry County Public SchoolsSchool district191FTE
- WindsorOneWood moldings91
- Virginia Department of TransportationAdministration78
- Phillips Heavy, Inc DEP Spring Grove II SolarSolar farms74
- Phillips Heavy Inc. - Dom CTW SolarTransformer station and substation, electric power, construction27
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 5 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,133 people in all across the county; Surry has one 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
- Coastal floodingRelatively moderate
- HurricanesRelatively moderate
- HailRelatively moderate
- Winter weatherrelatively high in parts of SurryRelatively moderate
- Ice stormsRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Surry’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 Surry County.
Surry home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Surry$307,562
- 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.
- Surry11
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a Surry address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Surry — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.