
Virginia · FIPS 51145
Powhatan ZIP codes — Powhatan County, Virginia
Quick answer
Powhatan County is home to 31,074 residents with a median household income of $110,667 and a median home value of $381,300. 93.1% of households own their home and 3.3% of residents live below the poverty line. Looking for a Powhatan ZIP code? 2 ZIP code areas fall inside Powhatan County, Virginia, listed in full below.
- Population
- 31,074Powhatan County residents
- Median household income
- $110,667Past 12 months, inflation adjusted
- Median home value
- $381,300Owner-occupied units
- Median gross rent
- $1,107Rent plus utilities, monthly
- Median age
- 45.3 yrsAll residents
- Homeownership rate
- 93.1%Owner-occupied households
Powhatan County, VA in context
How this area compares with national benchmarks.
Powhatan County is a small city in Virginia, with 31,074 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates. The median age here is 45.3 years against 39.1 nationally, a markedly older profile that usually tracks retirees staying put and younger households leaving for work. 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 Powhatan County earn a median of $110,667 a year, 40.9% above 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 3.3% of residents here, less than half the 12.4% national rate.
The typical owner-occupied home in Powhatan County is valued at $381,300, 25.7% above the national figure, while median gross rent runs $1,107 a month, 21.3% below the national figure, or roughly $13,284 across a full year. A household on the local median income would put about 12% 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 3.4×, against roughly 3.9× nationally, so buying is easier here than in the average US market. 93.1% of occupied homes are owner-occupied versus 65% nationally, an owner-dominated market where rental listings are scarce and rent medians rest on a thin sample. 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.
All values below were released by the Census for this exact geography, with no gap-filling on our side. 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.
ZIP codes in Powhatan County
ZIP code tabulation areas whose land area falls mostly in Powhatan County.
How to read this page
What these estimates cover.
Figures are five-year rolling averages from the American Community Survey, not single-year counts, so they describe conditions across 2019-2023 ACS 5-year rather than a single date. Median home value covers owner-occupied units as valued by their owners, and median gross rent includes utilities the renter pays. Small counties carry wide margins of error; treat single-dollar differences between neighbouring counties as noise.
Source: US Census Bureau, ACS 2019-2023 5-year estimates · rates as published for 2019-2023 ACS 5-year
Cities and towns in Virginia
Largest Census places in Virginia by population.
- Virginia Beach city 457,066
- Chesapeake city 251,153
- Arlington CDP 235,463
- Norfolk city 235,037
- Richmond city 227,595
- Newport News city 184,774
- Alexandria city 156,788
- Hampton city 137,334
- Roanoke city 98,677
- Portsmouth city 97,299
- Suffolk city 96,638
- Lynchburg city 79,255
Nearby counties
Other counties in Virginia.
Frequently asked questions
Common questions about this area.
- What is the population of Powhatan County?
- Powhatan County has 31,074 residents on Census ACS 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates.
- What is the median household income in Powhatan County?
- Median household income in Powhatan County is $110,667 a year, 40.9% above the national figure of $78,538.
- How much does it cost to rent or buy in Powhatan County?
- Median gross rent is $1,107 a month and the median home value is $381,300, so rent absorbs about 12% of median household income.
- Is Powhatan County affordable compared with the rest of the US?
- Homes cost about 3.4× the local median income here versus roughly 3.9× nationally, so Powhatan County is more affordable to buy in than the typical US market, and rent takes 12% of median income against the 30% cost-burden line.
- How current is this Powhatan County data?
- All figures come from the US Census Bureau American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year five-year estimates. 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.