
Virginia · FIPS 51147
Prince Edward ZIP codes — Prince Edward County, Virginia
Quick answer
Prince Edward County is home to 21,932 residents with a median household income of $55,082 and a median home value of $203,700. 59.9% of households own their home and 21.6% of residents live below the poverty line. Looking for a Prince Edward ZIP code? 7 ZIP code areas fall inside Prince Edward County, Virginia, listed in full below.
- Population
- 21,932Prince Edward County residents
- Median household income
- $55,082Past 12 months, inflation adjusted
- Median home value
- $203,700Owner-occupied units
- Median gross rent
- $898Rent plus utilities, monthly
- Median age
- 32.4 yrsAll residents
- Homeownership rate
- 59.9%Owner-occupied households
Prince Edward County, VA in context
How this area compares with national benchmarks.
Prince Edward County is a mid-size town in Virginia, with 21,932 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates. The median age here is 32.4 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 Prince Edward County earn a median of $55,082 a year, 29.9% below the national figure of $78,538. The median is the midpoint household, not an average, so a handful of very high earners cannot drag it upward the way they distort a mean. Poverty reaches 21.6% of residents here, well above the 12.4% national rate, which is the single clearest signal in this dataset that median income here is carried by a narrow band of households.
The typical owner-occupied home in Prince Edward County is valued at $203,700, 32.9% below the national figure, while median gross rent runs $898 a month, 36.1% below the national figure, or roughly $10,776 across a full year. A household on the local median income would put about 19.6% 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 3.7×, against roughly 3.9× nationally, so buying is easier here than in the average US market. 59.9% of occupied homes are owner-occupied versus 65% nationally, so the market leans more heavily on renters. 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 Prince Edward County
ZIP code tabulation areas whose land area falls mostly in Prince Edward County.
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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 Prince Edward County?
- Prince Edward County has 21,932 residents on Census ACS 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates.
- What is the median household income in Prince Edward County?
- Median household income in Prince Edward County is $55,082 a year, 29.9% below the national figure of $78,538.
- How much does it cost to rent or buy in Prince Edward County?
- Median gross rent is $898 a month and the median home value is $203,700, so rent absorbs about 19.6% of median household income.
- Is Prince Edward County affordable compared with the rest of the US?
- Homes cost about 3.7× the local median income here versus roughly 3.9× nationally, so Prince Edward County is more affordable to buy in than the typical US market, and rent takes 19.6% of median income against the 30% cost-burden line.
- How current is this Prince Edward 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.