Water View, Virginia.
Typical home $308,640 (-1.3% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$918 (+131%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $3,968 -1%
- $312,609$308,640 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $68,590 +29%
- $240,050$308,640 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.
- Water View$1,620
- Virginia$2,164
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 14 years.
Typical home values in Water View, VA fell 1.3% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Water View, Middlesex County, Virginia
The Census does not count Water View on its own, so the figures here are Middlesex County's. Half the county's households earn more than $75,060 a year and half less; 7% of the county's people live below the poverty line. 87% of the county's homes are lived in by their owners and 13% are rented. Unemployment in Middlesex County was 3.4% in August 2026, and the county had 4.5% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Middlesex 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Water View is a small town in Middlesex County, Virginia, where many people live near rivers and creeks. Across the county, most homes are lived in by their owners, and the population is older than in most of the country. Winters are cool with little snow, summers are hot, and the year is fairly wet.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, in professional and business services, in shops, or in the building trades. Jobs in the county fell over the past year, and unemployment is higher than it was a year earlier. A minority of adults hold a four-year degree, and some residents work from home.
Things to do. Lagrange Creek is in or beside town, so the water is close at hand. Belle Isle State Park, a protected area, is a short drive away. Colonial Williamsburg, one of the best known museums in the region, is a longer drive away.
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- 4,772households
- 55.5median age
- 34%of adults have a degree
- 7%below the poverty line
- 34 mintypical commute
- 23%work from home
What people in Middlesex County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Middlesex County had 3,238 jobs in 2025, 4.5% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 49° and lows near 28°; warmest in July, with highs near 90° and lows near 68°. About 10 inches of snow and 48 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the West Pt Northwest weather station, 14 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Middlesex County
- Bay AgingCompanion services for disabled persons, the elderly, and persons diagnosed with intellectual and developmental disabilities339
- Middle Peninsula Northern Neck Community Services BoardGroup homes, intellectual and developmental disability335
- Middlesex County Public SchoolsSchool district242FTE
- Food LionGrocery stores68
- Riverside Convalescent Center SaludaConvalescent homes or convalescent hospitals67
- MHC Property ManagementRv park33
- Virginia Department of TransportationHighway repair maintenance28
- Atlantic Metal ProductsStructural steel, fabricated, manufacturing24
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 8 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 918 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
- DroughtRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms across Middlesex 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 Middlesex County.
Water View home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Water View$308,640
- 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 Water View address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Water View — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.