Yorktown, Virginia.
Typical home $479,645 (+2.6% in a year), asking rent $2,049 (+3.6%). Virginia Beach-Norfolk-Newport News, VA-NC metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,280 (+103%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $11,929 +3%
- $467,716$479,645 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $101,556 +27%
- $378,089$479,645 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.
- Yorktown$2,518
- 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 Yorktown, VA rose 2.6% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Asking rents in Yorktown, VA rose 3.6% over the past year — faster than the nation's +2.7%.
Owning the typical home in Yorktown runs $1,240/mo more than renting one. The gap peaked at $1,346 in Apr 2024.
That is $3,289 a month against $2,049 rent: a $2,518 mortgage payment, plus $258 property tax and $513 insurance & upkeep.
Owning vs renting — Yorktown
The owning line is the typical home's monthly payment at that month's rate, plus property tax and insurance & upkeep; the renting line is the typical asking rent; the grey line is the mortgage payment on its own. Same homes, same months, both ways of paying for a roof.
- Owning all in$3,289
- Renting$2,049
- Mortgage only$2,518
Property tax · $258/mo 0.64% of value a year — the ACS 2020-2024 median bill over the median home value for York County, VA
Insurance & upkeep · $513/mo insurance, maintenance and repairs together, from the BLS Consumer Expenditure Survey — the national figure for mortgaged homeowners, scaled to this market's home value. BLS publishes the three bundled and they cannot be split.
Both are priced off the same month's home value, so they rise with the market. Neither is a quote — a specific home's bill depends on its assessment, its age and its insurer.
Living in Yorktown, York County, Virginia
Yorktown, in York County, had 221 people in the 2020 census. Unemployment in York County was 3.3% in August 2026, and the county had 1.8% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in York County 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Yorktown is a very small community on the York River, and its residents are older on the whole than people in most American towns. Homes here cost well above what is typical for the country, and renting is not cheap either. Household incomes across York County are comfortably high, and the county's unemployment rate has held steady over the past year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with professional and business services, government and manufacturing also employing many. Among the largest workplaces in Yorktown are the U.S. Coast Guard and the National Park Service, along with York County itself. Across the county, the number of jobs grew a little last year.
Things to do. Colonial National Historical Park lies in or beside town, and it is the natural place to start. A short drive away are Busch Gardens Williamsburg, a zoo and amusement park, and the Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Museum. Colonial Williamsburg, a museum of the colonial era, is a longer drive. Winters are cool and summers hot, with a fair amount of rain and melted snow through the year.
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What people in York County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. York County had 22,567 jobs in 2025, 1.8% 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 45 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Newport News International Airport weather station, 7 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Yorktown
- York CountyFire departments)639
- U.s. Coast GuardFederal government · Department of Homeland Security93
- National Park ServiceFederal government · Department of the Interior55
- YorktownMail and parcel delivery53
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 2 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 692 people in all. Federal offices come from OPM's federal workforce data (2026). 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 moderate
- LightningRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Yorktown’s census tracts, 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 York County and the Virginia Beach-Norfolk-Newport News, VA-NC metro.
Yorktown home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Yorktown$479,645
- Virginia$412,252
- United States$366,157
Levy by levy, and a check of one home’s own bill, the site covers Ohio’s property tax.
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 4 Yorktown listings, and the typical home goes pending in 28 days — the market is roughly in balance.
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
Share of listings with a price cut
The early-warning dial: sellers cut when buyers stop reaching. Rising cuts cool a market months before prices notice.
- Yorktown25.21%
- United States26.90%
Days to pending
How long the typical listing takes to go under contract.
- Yorktown28
- United States27
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Yorktown150
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Yorktown55
Median sale price
What buyers actually paid — closed sales, not asking prices.
- Yorktown$432,841
- United States$371,407
Sale-to-list ratio
Above 100%, homes sell over asking; below, buyers negotiate wins.
- Yorktown100.06%
Zip codes with a Yorktown address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Yorktown — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.
Zip codes in Yorktown
| Zip activate to sort by Zip | Place activate to sort by Place | Population sorted descending, activate to sort ascending | Rent activate to sort by Rent | Home value activate to sort by Home value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 23693 | Yorktown | 23,176 | $1,981 | $533,473 |
| 23692 | Yorktown | 19,301 | $2,135 | $455,027 |
| 23690 | Yorktown | 4,597 | $2,550 | $385,456 |