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Richmond city · Virginia

ZIP code 23298

Population, income, housing costs and the sales tax rate charged on purchases inside ZIP 23298 — Census 2019-2023 ACS 5-year, no modelled estimates.
Population
170

ZCTA residents

Median income
—

Household, past 12 months

Median home
—

Owner-occupied value

Sales tax
4.3%

Virginia state rate

Quick answer

ZIP 23298 sits in Richmond city, Virginia and is home to 170 people. Median household income is —, the median home is worth — and median gross rent is —. — of households own their home, and purchases are taxed at 4.3% (Virginia state rate).

County
Richmond city

FIPS 51760

State
Virginia (VA)

903 ZIPs covered

Area codes
Not published

No NANPA match for this ZIP

Metro area
Outside covered metros

Rate jurisdiction used for tax

The numbers for 23298

American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates for this ZCTA.

Population
170ZIP 23298 residents
Median household income
—Past 12 months, inflation adjusted
Median home value
—Owner-occupied units
Median gross rent
—Rent plus utilities, monthly
Median age
20.2 yrsAll residents
Homeownership rate
—Owner-occupied households

ZIP 23298 in context

How this area compares with national benchmarks.

ZIP 23298 is a very small community in Richmond city, Virginia, with 170 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #840 of 903 ranked by population — larger than 6% of them. The median age here is 20.2 years against 39.1 nationally, a distinctly younger profile, typical of places with students, military posts or a fast-growing family population. At this population the ACS sample is small, so the margin of error around every dollar figure below is wide — treat the numbers as a band, not a point, and expect them to move between annual releases without the place itself changing.

Households in ZIP 23298 earn a median of not published a year. Household income here is measured before tax and pooled across everyone at the address, which is why it reads higher than typical individual earnings in the same area. Poverty reaches an unpublished share of residents here.

The typical owner-occupied home in ZIP 23298 is valued at not published, while median gross rent runs not published a month. The homeownership rate is not published. 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 20.2 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. With 170 residents, a handful of survey responses moves every median on this page. Compare ZIP 23298 against its county rather than against national figures.

The Census withheld household income, home value, gross rent, poverty rate for ZIP 23298 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.

Reading ZIP 23298 in context

How 23298 sits inside Richmond city and Virginia.

ZIP 23298 is tabulated inside Richmond city, Virginia, one of 9 ZIP areas the Census publishes for that county and 903 across Virginia. This is one of the smallest tabulated ZIP areas in the state, the kind of rural route where a single subdivision or farm cluster accounts for most addresses. 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 23298 can be handled by a post office in a neighbouring county even though the tabulation area is filed here.

Against its own county, 23298 reports a median household income of not published. Owner-occupied homes are valued at a median of not published. Rent is reported gross — the contract amount plus tenant-paid utilities — at not published 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 23298 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 23298 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.

Sales tax in 23298

What a purchase inside this ZIP costs at checkout.

Rate applied
4.3%State base rate only
Tax on $100
$4Rounded to the dollar
Tax on $1,000
$43Before any exemptions

Virginia levies 4.3% statewide, and counties, cities and special districts inside this ZIP can add their own local rate on top. Check the county page for the local component before you quote a price.

Affordability in this ZIP

Derived from the Census medians above — indicative, not an offer.

Rent burden
—Median rent ÷ median income
Price-to-income
—Home value ÷ household income
Est. mortgage
—20% down, 30-yr at 6.75%
Poverty rate
—Residents below poverty line

A rent burden above 30% is the federal threshold for cost-burdened households, and a price-to-income multiple above 4× is generally considered a stretched housing market. The mortgage figure is principal and interest only — taxes, insurance and HOA dues are extra.

How 23298 compares

ZIP 23298 against the median ZIP in Richmond city and across Virginia.

MeasureZIP 23298County medianState medianvs state
Median household income—$61,699$72,517—
Median home value—$380,850$255,900—
Median gross rent—$1,439$1,108—
Population17014,1802,686-94%

Medians are computed across the 9 ZIP areas in Richmond city and the 903 ZIP areas in Virginia.

Statewide rank

Where this ZIP places among all 903 Virginia ZIP areas.

Income

Not published

—
Home value

Not published

—
Population

larger than 7% of 903 state ZIPs

#840

Nearby ZIP codes

Other ZIP codes filed under Richmond city.

Adjacent ZIP Codes

Other ZIP codes in Richmond city, Virginia.

ZIP 23298 questions

Common questions about this ZIP code.

Where is ZIP code 23298?
ZIP 23298 lies mostly in Richmond city, Virginia. County assignment follows the largest share of land area, so a ZIP straddling a county line is filed under its dominant county.
What sales tax do I pay in 23298?
Virginia charges 4.3% statewide, plus any county, city or district rate that applies locally.
Is 23298 expensive to live in?
Median rent runs — a month, and the median home is worth — — — against the typical Virginia ZIP.
Is a ZCTA the same as a postal ZIP code?
Not exactly. The Census builds ZIP Code Tabulation Areas from the ZIP codes of addresses inside each census block, so a ZCTA can differ slightly from the USPS delivery route of the same number, and PO-box-only ZIPs have no ZCTA at all.

Related pages for this area.

Sources & transparency

Every figure on this page is a published estimate for ZIP Code Tabulation Area 23298, except the affordability ratios and mortgage estimate, which we derive from those medians and label as estimates.

Last reviewed December 2024. Figures are published for reference and can change; verify with the source agency before filing or contracting. How we build and check this data.