Colonial Heights city, Virginia population and income

Colonial Heights city is a mid-size town in Virginia, with 18,210 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates. The median age here is 38.5 years against 39.1 nationally, a slightly younger profile than the country as a whole. 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 Colonial Heights city earn a median of $76,250 a year, 2.9% below the national figure of $78,538. 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 9.6% of residents here, below the 12.4% national rate.

The typical owner-occupied home in Colonial Heights city is valued at $231,700, 23.6% below the national figure, while median gross rent runs $1,162 a month, 17.4% below the national figure, or roughly $13,944 across a full year. A household on the local median income would put about 18.3% of gross pay toward that rent against the federal 30% cost-burden threshold, so renting here is cheap relative to what people here earn. The home-price-to-income ratio works out to 3×, against roughly 3.9× nationally, so buying is easier here than in the average US market. 68.1% of occupied homes are owner-occupied versus 65% nationally, so the market leans toward owners. The rent line includes utilities paid by the tenant, a definition worth remembering when comparing it against a landlord's quoted rate.

Every value on this page is published directly by the Census for this area — nothing is modelled or interpolated. Small-area estimates still carry wider margins of error than state or national figures, so check the linked ACS tables before relying on them for lending, appraisal or legal work.