Vernon Hill, Virginia.
Typical home $140,246 (+8.7% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$395 (+116%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $11,211 +9%
- $129,035$140,246 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $34,865 +33%
- $105,381$140,246 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.
- Vernon Hill$736
- Virginia$2,164
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 12 years.
Typical home values in Vernon Hill, VA rose 8.7% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Vernon Hill, Halifax County, Virginia
The Census does not count Vernon Hill on its own, so the figures here are Halifax County's. Half the county's households earn more than $52,013 a year and half less; 17% of the county's people live below the poverty line. 75% of the county's homes are lived in by their owners and 25% are rented. Unemployment in Halifax County was 4.8% in August 2026, and the county had 0.3% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Halifax County work in schools and health care, then manufacturing.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Vernon Hill is a small community in Halifax County, in south-central Virginia. Across Halifax County, most homes are lived in by their owners, and renting is less common than in many places. Winters are cool and snow is light, while summers are hot and rain falls often through the year.
Work. Across Halifax County, fewer people are out of work than a year ago, though the number of jobs has edged down slightly over the same period. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, in manufacturing, in shops, or in the building trades. Few people work from home, and most commutes are of moderate length.
Things to do. Virginia International Raceway, a race track, is a longer drive away and is one of the best known sites nearby. Bar Branch, a river, is a short drive away and suits a quiet outing by the water. Staunton River State Park, a protected area, is also a longer drive away and offers open land for walks and time outdoors.
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- 13,613households
- 46.5median age
- 20%of adults have a degree
- 17%below the poverty line
- 25 mintypical commute
- 7%work from home
What people in Halifax County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Halifax County had 11,810 jobs in 2025, 0.3% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 51° and lows near 26°; warmest in July, with highs near 90° and lows near 67°. About 6 inches of snow and 46 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the South Boston weather station, 14 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Halifax County
- Halifax County Public SchoolsSchool district938FTE
- Hitachi Energy USA, inc. South BostonPower transformers, electric, manufacturing699
- Halifax Regional HospitalGeneral hospital348FTE
- Reynolds Presto ProductsFood storage bags, plastics film, single wall or multiwall, manufacturing332
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters290
- Sunshine Mills HalifaxPet food, dog and cat, manufacturing212
- Hot Rock HaulersGeneral freight trucking, local168
- Huber Engineered Woods, LLC, Crystal HillOriented strandboard manufacturing160
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 28 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 3,817 people in all. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24) and hospitals from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023); 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
- LightningRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively moderate
- Winter weatherRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms across Halifax 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 Halifax County.
Vernon Hill home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Vernon Hill$140,246
- 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 Vernon Hill address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Vernon Hill — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.