Fort Lee, VA population, income and ZIP codes

Fort Lee CDP is a mid-size town in Virginia, with 8,318 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #149 of 688 ranked by population — larger than 78% of them. The median age here is 21 years against 39.1 nationally, a distinctly younger profile, typical of places with students, military posts or a fast-growing family population. Places under 65,000 residents only appear in the five-year release, never the one-year file, so these values pool sixty months of responses and lag the current year by design.

Households in Fort Lee CDP earn a median of $81,105 a year, 3.3% above the national figure of $78,538 and within a couple of points of the $82,986 median for the 383 Virginia cities we cover. This figure covers the household, not the worker: two people on ordinary wages at one address outrank a single professional in the same table. Poverty reaches 2% of residents here, less than half the 12.4% national rate.

The typical owner-occupied home in Fort Lee CDP is valued at not published, while median gross rent runs $1,813 a month, 28.9% above the national figure, or roughly $21,756 across a full year. A household on the local median income would put about 26.8% of gross pay toward that rent against the federal 30% cost-burden threshold, so renting here is within the standard affordability guideline. 2.3% of occupied homes are owner-occupied versus 65% nationally, a renter-majority market, so rent figures matter more here than the home-value line. Rent is reported gross — contract rent plus tenant-paid utilities — which is why it runs above the advertised price on a listing for the same unit.

A median age of 21 means a large student or early-career population; income medians in places like this understate household resources, since many residents are supported from outside the address.

The Census withheld home value for Fort Lee CDP because the sample was too thin to publish at this geography. Those values were suppressed at the source, not lost in our dataset, and we do not model a replacement. Everything else on this page comes straight from the ACS 2019-2023 ACS 5-year tables.