Yale, Virginia.
Typical home $195,162 (+6.2% in a year). Richmond, VA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$571 (+126%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $11,332 +6%
- $183,830$195,162 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $41,070 +27%
- $154,092$195,162 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.
- Yale$1,024
- Virginia$2,164
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 15 years.
Typical home values in Yale, VA rose 6.2% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Yale, Sussex County, Virginia
The Census does not count Yale on its own, so the figures here are Sussex County's. Half the county's households earn more than $63,530 a year and half less; 12% of the county's people live below the poverty line. 70% of the county's homes are lived in by their owners and 30% are rented. 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 people in Sussex 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Yale is a small community in Sussex County, Virginia, where most homes across the county are lived in by their owners rather than rented. Many residents are middle-aged or older, and the county's incomes sit below what is common in much of the state. Winters are cold and summers are hot, with little snow and a good deal of rain over the year.
Work. Across Sussex County, most people work in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, in manufacturing, or in professional and business services. Unemployment has stayed about the same over the past year, but the county had fewer jobs in the most recent year than before. Most residents commute by car to their work, and only a small share work from home.
Things to do. Petersburg National Battlefield, an archaeological site, is a longer drive away and is one of the best known historic sites in the region. Three Creek, a river, is a short drive away. The Chub Sandhill Natural Area Preserve, a protected area, is also a short drive away.
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- 3,785households
- 40.8median age
- 16%of adults have a degree
- 12%below the poverty line
- 36 mintypical commute
- 8%work from home
What people in Sussex County 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 49° and lows near 27°; warmest in July, with highs near 90° and lows near 68°. About 4 inches of snow and 48 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Stony Creek North weather station, 12 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. 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 moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms across Sussex 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 Sussex County and the Richmond, VA metro.
Yale home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Yale$195,162
- 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 Yale address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Yale — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.