Waverly, Virginia.
Typical home $199,190 (+3.3% in a year). Richmond, VA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$553 (+112%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $6,379 +3%
- $192,812$199,190 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $47,757 +32%
- $151,433$199,190 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.
- Waverly$1,046
- Virginia$2,164
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 13 years.
Typical home values in Waverly, VA rose 3.3% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Waverly, Sussex County, Virginia
Waverly is a town of 1,955 people in Sussex County. Unemployment in Sussex County was 3.6% in August 2026, and the county had 1.6% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Waverly is a small town in Sussex County, Virginia, with a median age a little younger than many rural Virginia communities. Few adults here hold a four-year degree, and incomes across Sussex County are modest, with a small share of residents living below the poverty line. Homes are priced well within reach compared with much of the state. Winters are cool and short, with highs near freezing rarely a worry and only a little snow, while summers turn hot, and rain falls steadily through the year.
Work. Residents work mainly in schools, hospitals and social care, with others in professional and business services, shops, and transport, warehouses and utilities. Across Sussex County, the largest workplaces include Sussex County Public Schools, the Virginia Department of Corrections and Waverly Rehabilitation and Healthcare Center. Jobs across the county slipped slightly last year, though unemployment has held steady from a year earlier, and a fair number of residents work from home.
Things to do. For time outdoors, Big Woods State Forest and Dendron Swamp Natural Area Preserve are both protected areas a short drive away, good for walking and watching wildlife. Those who want a day trip can make a longer drive to Colonial Williamsburg, a museum of colonial-era life, or to Busch Gardens Williamsburg, a zoo and amusement park.
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- 877households
- 17%of adults have a degree
- 8%below the poverty line
- 13%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Sussex County had 3,162 jobs in 2025, 1.6% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 50° and lows near 28°; warmest in July, with highs near 90° and lows near 68°. About 6 inches of snow and 51 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Wakefield 1NW weather station, 6 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Sussex County
- Sussex County Public SchoolsSchool district261FTE
- Virginia Department of CorrectionsCorrectional institutions261
- Schultz LawnscapesLandscape care and maintenance services140
- Waverly Rehabilitation and Healthcare CenterSkilled nursing facilities92
- Prince George Electric CooperativeDistribution of electric power65
- Atlantic Waste Disposal47
- James River Equipment CompanyAgricultural machinery and equipment merchant wholesalers44
- Waverly Feed Delivery -EST33
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 10 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 755 people in all across the county; Waverly has two 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
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- DroughtRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively moderate
- HurricanesRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Waverly’s census tracts, 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 Sussex County and the Richmond, VA metro.
Waverly home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Waverly$199,190
- 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.
- Waverly5
Zip codes with a Waverly address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Waverly — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.