ZIP code 22134

ZIP 22134 is a mid-size town in Stafford County, Virginia, with 7,785 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #284 of 903 ranked by population — larger than 68% of them. The median age here is 23.2 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 ZIP 22134 earn a median of $67,965 a year, 13.5% below the national figure of $78,538. Median household income counts every pre-tax dollar arriving at an address — wages, self-employment, Social Security, pensions, interest and public assistance — for everyone living there, so multi-earner households pull the figure up even where individual pay is modest. Poverty reaches 8% of residents here, below the 12.4% national rate.

The typical owner-occupied home in ZIP 22134 is valued at $237,500, 21.7% below the national figure, while median gross rent runs $2,263 a month, 61% above the national figure, or roughly $27,156 across a full year. A household on the local median income would put about 40% of gross pay toward that rent against the federal 30% cost-burden threshold, so renting here is a stretch on median earnings. The home-price-to-income ratio works out to 3.5×, against roughly 3.9× nationally, so buying is easier here than in the average US market. 4.1% of occupied homes are owner-occupied versus 65% nationally, a renter-majority market, so rent figures matter more here than the home-value line. Gross rent folds in the utilities a tenant pays separately, so it is closer to the real monthly outlay than a headline rent figure.

ZIP 22134 is the unusual combination of expensive to rent and cheap to buy: rent takes 40% of median income while homes cost only 3.5× it. Where that pattern shows up, the gap is normally down to down-payment and credit barriers rather than price. A median age of 23.2 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.

No figure on this page is estimated by us; each one comes straight from the published ACS tables for this area. 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 22134 is tabulated inside Stafford County, Virginia, one of 5 ZIP areas the Census publishes for that county and 903 across Virginia. Population sits in the small-town band, typically one main street plus the addresses that feed into it. County assignment on this page follows the largest share of the ZIP's land area, which matters where a delivery route crosses a county line: mail addressed to 22134 can be handled by a post office in a neighbouring county even though the tabulation area is filed here.

Against its own county, 22134 reports a median household income of $67,965, 47% below the $127,713 county median, and 6% below the $72,517 typical VA ZIP. Owner-occupied homes are valued at a median of $237,500, 48% below the county figure and 7% below the statewide ZIP median. Rent is reported gross — the contract amount plus tenant-paid utilities — at $2,263 a month, which is why it reads higher than the advertised rent on a listing for the same unit.

Virginia charges 4.3% statewide, and local governments overlapping 22134 may add county, city or special-district levies on top. We publish the state floor for this ZIP rather than guessing a combined figure, because ZIP boundaries and taxing-district boundaries were drawn for different purposes and do not line up.

Everything above comes from the Census Bureau American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates for this ZIP Code Tabulation Area, with sales tax rates traced to the state revenue agency. Five-year estimates pool sixty months of responses, so they are stable enough to compare 22134 with its neighbours but always trail the current year, and any value the Census suppressed for sample size is shown as unpublished rather than filled in with a model.