ZIP code 23511

ZIP 23511 is a mid-size town in Norfolk city, Virginia, with 10,024 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #250 of 903 ranked by population — larger than 72% of them. The median age here is 21.9 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 23511 earn a median of $70,139 a year, 10.7% below the national figure of $78,538. 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 5.7% of residents here, less than half the 12.4% national rate.

The typical owner-occupied home in ZIP 23511 is valued at not published, while median gross rent runs $2,081 a month, 48% above the national figure, or roughly $24,972 across a full year. A household on the local median income would put about 35.6% of gross pay toward that rent against the federal 30% cost-burden threshold, so renting here is a stretch on median earnings. 0% of occupied homes are owner-occupied versus 65% nationally, a renter-majority market, so rent figures matter more here than the home-value line. The rent line includes utilities paid by the tenant, a definition worth remembering when comparing it against a landlord's quoted rate.

A median age of 21.9 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.

The Census withheld home value for ZIP 23511 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.

ZIP 23511 is tabulated inside Norfolk city, Virginia, one of 14 ZIP areas the Census publishes for that county and 903 across Virginia. This is a mid-sized suburban ZIP inside a county that is split across many delivery areas. 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 23511 can be handled by a post office in a neighbouring county even though the tabulation area is filed here.

Against its own county, 23511 reports a median household income of $70,139, 5% above the $66,875 county median, and 3% below the $72,517 typical VA ZIP. Owner-occupied homes are valued at a median of not published. Rent is reported gross — the contract amount plus tenant-paid utilities — at $2,081 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 23511 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 23511 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.