Gloucester Point, Virginia

Area Profile

11,109 residents. Public schools, jobs, income, housing cost, climate and natural-hazard risk for Gloucester Point, in Gloucester County.

67out of 100
Area Score
Top 24% of 4,196 profiles measured

How we calculate this

How this area ranks

Data updated · 13 sources
Opportunity2,243rd of 4,199 cities measured55
SchoolsTop 36% of 4,162 cities measured60
GrowthTop 30% of 4,224 cities measured59
Housing affordabilityTop 23% of 4,218 cities measured76
ClimateTop 21% of 4,225 cities measured78
Physical resilienceTop 33% of 4,226 cities measured72
AccessTop 42% of 4,226 cities measured95
Economic stability2,762nd of 4,226 cities measured49
The quick read

Unemployment is 3.1% and median household income $74,001, putting employment conditions in the middle range of cities measured. The unemployment rate is published for Gloucester County, VA, which contains Gloucester Point, rather than for Gloucester Point alone.

In the public schools here, 87% of students met the state standard in mathematics, with 13.7 students for every teacher.

Development activity is both elevated and accelerating — 165 housing units permitted over the past twelve months, up 57% on the prior year. The permit count and 1 other measure here are published for Gloucester County, VA, which contains Gloucester Point, rather than for Gloucester Point alone.

These sentences are written by fixed rules from the measurements below — a statement appears because a number crossed a stated threshold, and the values behind it are stored with it. No figure anywhere on this site is invented, estimated or inferred to fill a gap. How this works.

At a glance

Population
11,109
2024 ACS 5-Year
Median household income
$74,001
Top 40% nationally
Density
1,182/sq mi
9.4 sq mi of land
Median age
41.4
2024 ACS 5-Year
County
Virginia
Nearest major airport
PHF
10 mi · Newport News/Williamsburg Intl
Median home value
$320,700
2024 ACS 5-Year

Jobs & opportunity

Unemployment across Gloucester County, VA, which contains Gloucester Point, is 3.1%, lower than in 91% of the 4,226 measured US cities.

Employment across Gloucester County, VA, which contains Gloucester Point, fell 1.7% over the past year, to 19,672 employed residents.

MetricValueCompared nationallySource period
Income of new arrivalsGloucester County, VA’s figurefiling years 2022–2023$76,26756th percentileof 4,101filing years 2022–2023
Income of those who leftGloucester County, VA’s figurefiling years 2022–2023$64,91534th percentileof 4,101filing years 2022–2023
Median household income ±$13,2562024 ACS 5-Year$74,001Top 40%of 29,2232024 ACS 5-Year
Per capita income ±$3,2072024 ACS 5-Year$36,180Top 42%of 31,4202024 ACS 5-Year
Poverty rate ±3%2024 ACS 5-Year7.5%Top 36%of 31,7732024 ACS 5-Year
Average commute ±3.2 min2024 ACS 5-Year36.8 minBottom 12%of 31,5432024 ACS 5-Year
Bachelor's degree or higher ±5%2024 ACS 5-Year23.6%Top 42%of 31,9192024 ACS 5-Year
Drove alone to work ±6%2024 ACS 5-Year85.9%78th percentileof 31,4332024 ACS 5-Year
EmploymentGloucester County, VA’s figureJuly 202619,672Bottom 23%of 4,226July 2026
Employment change (3 years)Gloucester County, VA’s figureJuly 2026−4.7%Bottom 5%of 4,226July 2026
Employment change (year over year)Gloucester County, VA’s figureJuly 2026−1.7%Bottom 30%of 4,226July 2026
Labor forceGloucester County, VA’s figureJuly 202620,29522nd percentileof 4,226July 2026
Labor force participation ±6%2024 ACS 5-Year71.9%Bottom 31%of 31,5132024 ACS 5-Year
Mean annual wageVirginia Beach-Chesapeake-Norfolk, VA-NC Metro Area’s figure2025 OEWS$64,130Bottom 28%of 3,7292025 OEWS
Median annual wageVirginia Beach-Chesapeake-Norfolk, VA-NC Metro Area’s figure2025 OEWS$49,430Bottom 37%of 3,7292025 OEWS
Public transit to work ±0.4%2024 ACS 5-Year0.0%1st percentileof 31,4332024 ACS 5-Year
Unemployment change (year over year)Gloucester County, VA’s figureJuly 2026+0.3%Bottom 26%of 4,226July 2026
Unemployment rateGloucester County, VA’s figureJuly 20263.1%Top 9%of 4,226July 2026
Worked from home ±3%2024 ACS 5-Year10.1%61st percentileof 31,4332024 ACS 5-Year

Median household income, successive ACS releases

202120222023202474k70k
Each point is a separate five-year estimate, most recently $74,001 in the 2024 ACS 5-Year. Consecutive releases share four years of sample, so AreaProfile shows them as a record of successive estimates and does not compute a year-over-year change from them.

Largest occupations — Virginia Beach-Chesapeake-Norfolk, VA-NC

OccupationPeople employedMedian annual wage
Fast Food and Counter Workers22,520$28,780
Retail Salespersons20,890$30,820
General and Operations Managers17,400$100,340
Registered Nurses16,870$89,450
Cashiers16,840$29,320
Laborers and Freight, Stock, and Material Movers, Hand13,920$39,160

Searches the 40 largest occupations here that have a published wage.

Occupational employment and wages are published for metropolitan areas rather than for individual cities or ZIP areas, so these describe the wider labor market this location sits in. 2025 OEWS, U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.

The Bureau of Labor Statistics publishes city-level labor data only for places of 25,000 or more. This is the figure for Gloucester County, VA, which contains this city.

87% of students met the state standard in mathematics and 76% in reading, across the schools here that reported results.

There are 13.7 students for every full-time teacher across 2 public schools, fewer than in most measured places.

Public schools
2
2024-25 school year
Students per teacher
13.7
across all schools here
Math proficiency
87.5%
Top 26% in Virginia
Reading proficiency
76.3%
Bottom 35% in Virginia
All 2 public schools on record, largest first.
SchoolDistrictStudentsPer teacherMathReading
Abingdon ElementaryGloucester County Public Schools45513.487%74%
Achilles ElementaryGloucester County Public Schools39714.288%79%

66.0% of students here are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. That describes the circumstances families arrive with, not how the schools perform, so it is shown and not scored.

Public schools only, from the NCES Common Core of Data, placed by ZIP code — which schools are in this place, not which one a particular address is zoned for. A dash in a proficiency column is a gap in the federal file, not a bad result. Proficiency is measured against Virginia’s own standard, so it is ranked within state. How to read school figures.

Prices for everything a household buys run about 2% below the national average — the Bureau of Economic Analysis index reads 97.7, against 100 for the nation. Nationally, housing drives most of the spread between places in this index; other goods vary far less.

The Federal Housing Finance Agency’s house price index for the Virginia Beach-Chesapeake-Norfolk, VA-NC Metro Area is up 43% over five years, and up 3.6% over the last year. It follows repeat sales of the same homes, so it measures price change rather than which homes happened to sell.

Homeowners here who pay a tax bill pay a median of $1,880 a year in real estate taxes, about 0.59% of the median home value.

HUD’s Fair Market Rent for a two-bedroom, set near the 40th percentile of recent new leases, is $1,260, some 19% above the $1,062 tenants already here pay.

At HUD’s Fair Market Rent of $1,260 a month for a two-bedroom, keeping rent to 30% of income takes a household income of about $50,400 a year, about 68% of the median household income here of $74,001.

The typical renter household here spends 27% of its income on rent, below the 30% threshold at which a household is considered cost-burdened. Median gross rent runs $1,062 a month.

A median home at $320,700 costs 3.3 times the median income of its owner-occupied households, $97,184, above the historic benchmark of about 3 times income.

Cost of living
97.7

Prices here run about 2% below the national average. The spread between places is driven mostly by housing — goods vary far less — and this excludes taxes.

Published for the Virginia Beach-Chesapeake-Norfolk, VA-NC Metro Area as a whole. Prices are regional — people shop, commute and rent across a metropolitan area rather than within a city boundary — so this describes the cost of living around this place better than a figure drawn to its own limits would.

Rent as a share of income
27.2%
Below the 30% cost-burdened threshold
Home price to income
3.3×
median home value ÷ owner household income
Market rent, two bedroom
$1,260
what a new lease costs · FY2026
Median gross rent
$1,062
what tenants now pay · 2024 ACS 5-Year
Median home value
$320,700
2024 ACS 5-Year

The figures above are measured against Gloucester Point’s median household income of $74,001, which describes the place rather than you. Enter your own and the ratio is recomputed against it. It stays in this browser.

MetricValueCompared nationallySource period
Cost of living indexthe Virginia Beach-Chesapeake-Norfolk, VA-NC Metro Area’s figure202397.7Top 35%of 3,7002023
Home price change (1 year)the Virginia Beach-Chesapeake-Norfolk, VA-NC Metro Area’s figure2026 Q2+3.6%61st percentileof 4,1542026 Q2
Home price change (5 years)the Virginia Beach-Chesapeake-Norfolk, VA-NC Metro Area’s figure2026 Q2+43.4%52nd percentileof 4,1542026 Q2
Home price change (10 years)the Virginia Beach-Chesapeake-Norfolk, VA-NC Metro Area’s figure2026 Q2+78.2%25th percentileof 4,1542026 Q2
Home price to income ±0.32024 ACS 5-Year3.3Bottom 28%of 26,8152024 ACS 5-Year
Homeownership rate ±4%2024 ACS 5-Year67.0%32nd percentileof 31,7172024 ACS 5-Year
Housing units ±3862024 ACS 5-Year4,90388th percentileof 32,1772024 ACS 5-Year
Market rent, one bedroomFY2026$1,110Top 30%of 4,072FY2026
Market rent, three bedroomFY2026$1,750Top 32%of 4,072FY2026
Market rent, two bedroomFY2026$1,260Top 25%of 4,072FY2026
Median gross rent ±$882024 ACS 5-Year$1,062Bottom 42%of 23,1202024 ACS 5-Year
Median home value ±$25,4702024 ACS 5-Year$320,70074th percentileof 29,1112024 ACS 5-Year
Median property taxes ±$1752024 ACS 5-Year$1,88053rd percentileof 26,4402024 ACS 5-Year
Owner household income ±$5,3942024 ACS 5-Year$97,184Top 30%of 27,5482024 ACS 5-Year
Property tax rate ±0.07%2024 ACS 5-Year0.59%18th percentileof 20,5432024 ACS 5-Year
Rent as a share of income ±3%2024 ACS 5-Year27.2%Top 43%of 22,9502024 ACS 5-Year
Seasonal and second homes ±1752024 ACS 5-Year18793rd percentileof 32,3302024 ACS 5-Year
Second homes2024 ACS 5-Year3.8%77th percentileof 31,8952024 ACS 5-Year
Vacancy rate2024 ACS 5-Year6.9%49th percentileof 31,7692024 ACS 5-Year
Vacant housing units ±1972024 ACS 5-Year52490th percentileof 32,3302024 ACS 5-Year

These measures come from the same ACS release as the income they are compared with. They compare housing cost with local earnings only: transport, groceries, healthcare, insurance and taxes are not in them. How to read affordability, the two rent figures and the cost-of-living index.

Development Momentum

59/ 100
Top 30% of 4,224 published city profiles

An AreaProfile calculation combining permit volume per resident, its direction over one and three years, population change and employment growth. Permit volume alone is not the measure.

New construction is predominantly single-family: of 165 units permitted over the past twelve months, none were in buildings of five or more homes. The multifamily share is published for Gloucester County, VA, which contains Gloucester Point, rather than for Gloucester Point alone.

Federal tax returns show Gloucester County, which contains Gloucester Point, gained about 0.7% of its residents through moves within the US in the most recent year, counting those who arrived against those who left. Households that moved in reported an average income of $76,267, above the $64,915 of households that moved out.

At 4.2 permitted units per 1,000 residents, building activity is above the median for measured US cities. The permit rate is published for Gloucester County, VA, which contains Gloucester Point, rather than for Gloucester Point alone.

Units permitted
165
12 months ending July 2026
Per 1,000 residents
4.2
Top 34% nationally
Year over year
+57%
vs the prior twelve months
Multifamily share
0.0%
units in 5+ unit buildings

People moving in and out

Net migration
+0.7%
of residents, in a year
Arrivals from another state
35%
of people moving in
Income of arrivals
$76,267
average per tax return
Income of those who left
$64,915
average per tax return

Where newcomers came from

  1. Newport News city, VA 257 people · 12% of arrivals
  2. York County, VA 199 people · 9.2% of arrivals
  3. James City County, VA 141 people · 6.5% of arrivals
  4. Hampton city, VA 107 people · 4.9% of arrivals
  5. Middlesex County, VA 93 people · 4.3% of arrivals

Where people who left went

  1. Newport News city, VA 219 people · 11% of departures
  2. York County, VA 149 people · 7.7% of departures
  3. Mathews County, VA 106 people · 5.5% of departures
  4. Middlesex County, VA 88 people · 4.5% of departures
  5. James City County, VA 77 people · 4.0% of departures

Based on the address on federal tax returns, compared with the same filers a year earlier. It counts people who file, and sees a move only when the address on a return changes. Domestic moves only: people arriving from abroad are left out. This is the figure for Gloucester County, VA. IRS Statistics of Income, filing years 2022–2023.

The Census Bureau's Building Permits Survey lists only jurisdictions that issue their own permits, and Gloucester Point, VA is not one. This is the figure for Gloucester County, VA, which contains this city.

Weather & climate

7 of the twelve months have a normal average temperature between 55°F and 80°F. July averages a high of 88°F and January a low of 31°F.

Normal annual precipitation is 45.1 inches.

20°40°60°80°100°JFMAMJJASOND
Solid line: normal daily high. Dashed line: normal daily low. 1991-2020 normals from NOAA station NEWPORT NEWS INTL AP, 9.6 miles from this location.

Precipitation

JFMAMJJASOND5.4"
Normal monthly precipitation, in inches.
MetricValueSource period
Annual precipitation1991-2020 Normals45.1"1991-2020 Normals
Average January low1991-2020 Normals31°F1991-2020 Normals
Average July high1991-2020 Normals88°F1991-2020 Normals
Comfortable months1991-2020 Normals71991-2020 Normals
Seasonal temperature swing1991-2020 Normals39°F1991-2020 Normals

Climate figures are thirty-year normals, not current conditions. How to read climate and air quality.

Physical risk

72 / 100
Physical resilience

The hazards accounting for most of this area's expected annual loss are inland flooding, hurricane and coastal flooding, with inland flooding alone responsible for 38% of it. Inland flooding is independently rated low or minimal nationally, so this describes how the loss is composed, not how large that hazard is.

HurricaneElevated
DroughtHigh
Coastal floodingHigh
Ice stormModerate
LandslideModerate
LightningModerate

Low or minimal exposure: strong wind, heat wave, wildfire, earthquake, tornado, cold wave, inland flooding, hail, winter weather, volcanic activity, tsunami, avalanche.

Hazard ratings are AreaProfile calculations derived from the FEMA National Risk Index v1.20.0 (December 2025). FEMA publishes at county level. City values are the population-weighted mean of the counties the city overlaps, using AreaProfile place-to-county land-area weights. FEMA does not endorse this presentation. Higher physical resilience means lower exposure.

These are deaths, not offenses — they say nothing about burglary, theft or assault.

Gloucester County has a modeled homicide rate of about 4.9 per 100,000 residents a year, because the CDC suppresses counts this small, near the middle of counties measured. The CDC does not publish this below county level.

Firearm deaths of all intents run at 35.0 per 100,000 — more than the homicide rate, since the figure counts suicides and accidents as well as homicides.

Drug overdose deaths run at about 8.4 per 100,000 residents in Gloucester County.

Homicide
4.9
per 100,000 residents · modeled, not measured
Firearm deaths, all intents
35.0
per 100,000 residents
Drug overdose
8.4
per 100,000 residents · modeled, not measured
Suicide
35.0
per 100,000 residents

Firearm deaths count every intent together, and nationally the majority are suicides rather than homicides, so the firearm figure and the homicide figure above it count some of the same deaths twice over. They overlap and should not be added together.

Death rates are crude rates — deaths divided by population, not adjusted for age — except where a count was too small for the CDC to publish and it modeled the rate, which the card marks. They come from provisional death certificate records, published by the CDC by county and not below it. So they describe the county around Gloucester Point (Gloucester County) rather than Gloucester Point itself. They are shown and not scored. How to read death rates.

What this profile does not cover

Each of these is absent for a reason, not by oversight. The Area Score is calculated without them; the weighting is on the methodology page.

Reported crime
Offenses reported to police are published by department rather than by town, so AreaProfile shows a rate only on city profiles, and only where that city’s department submitted every month of a year. Either no municipal department reports for this place — many smaller communities are policed by the county — or its department did not report every month of the year. Either way there is no figure to show. A partial year is never scaled up to look complete, and arrest counts or news volume are never substituted for it.
Air quality
The EPA publishes an air-quality index only where a monitor sits. There is none in this county, and a modeled value would be a different kind of number from the measured ones everywhere else on this page.
Taxes
Income and sales taxes are not published: no source covers them nationally with a method open enough to check. Property taxes are shown in the housing section but are not part of the score. The cost-of-living index above is a price level for all consumption, not a household budget, and it excludes taxes. Nothing here is individualized tax advice.
Anything about a specific address
Every figure describes an area, not a street or a house.

Access

2 major airports lie within 100 miles, the nearest Newport News/Williamsburg Intl at 10 miles.

MetricValueCompared nationallySource period
Broadband access ±5%2024 ACS 5-Year87.9%Bottom 42%of 31,5882024 ACS 5-Year
Distance to major airportNASR current cycle10 miTop 25%of 4,226NASR current cycle
Major airports within 100 milesNASR current cycle2Bottom 8%of 4,226NASR current cycle
No internet access ±4%2024 ACS 5-Year9.8%Bottom 39%of 31,5882024 ACS 5-Year
AirportCodeDistanceLongest runway
Newport News/Williamsburg IntlPHF10 mi8,003 ft
Richmond IntlRIC48 mi9,003 ft
Washington Dulles IntlIAD127 mi11,500 ft

Airport identity, position and runway data come from the FAA. “Major airport” is an AreaProfile classification — a public-use civil airport with a paved runway of at least 8,000 feet — not an FAA hub designation. Distances are straight-line, not driving distance.

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Other cities in Virginia Beach-Chesapeake-Norfolk, VA-NC

Same metropolitan area, measured the same way
CityCountyPopulationArea ScoreCompare
Virginia BeachVirginia Beach city456,34969Virginia Beach vs Gloucester Point
ChesapeakeChesapeake city252,58368Chesapeake vs Gloucester Point
NorfolkNorfolk city233,59656Norfolk vs Gloucester Point
Newport NewsNewport News city184,21654
HamptonHampton city137,55758
SuffolkSuffolk city98,79663
PortsmouthPortsmouth city97,19053
WilliamsburgWilliamsburg city15,79859
PoquosonPoquoson city12,63967

Every city here is measured on the same scale from the same source releases, so the comparison is like for like. A higher Area Score reflects AreaProfile’s standardized weighting rather than a judgment about which is the better place to live.

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Data & methodology

Used forSourceSource period
AccessFederal Aviation Administration
Airports (NASR) — Aeronautical Data Delivery Service
NASR current cycle
Physical riskFederal Emergency Management Agency
National Risk Index
National Risk Index December 2025 (v1.20.0)
Demographics, IncomeInternal Revenue Service, Statistics of Income Division
U.S. Population Migration Data (county to county)
filing years 2022–2023
ClimateNOAA National Centers for Environmental Information
U.S. Climate Normals 1991–2020 (Monthly)
1991-2020 Normals
HousingU.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis
Regional price parities and county personal income
2023
JobsU.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics
2025 OEWS
JobsU.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
Local Area Unemployment Statistics
July 2026
Access, Demographics, Housing, Income, JobsU.S. Census Bureau
American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates (Table-Based Summary File)
2024 ACS 5-Year
DevelopmentU.S. Census Bureau
Building Permits Survey
12 months ending July 2026
SafetyU.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Health Statistics
Provisional county-level mortality by intent
March 2025 to February 2026; May 2025 to April 2026
SchoolsU.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics
Common Core of Data and EDFacts assessments
2018-19 school year; 2024-25 school year
HousingU.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, Office of Policy Development and Research
Fair Market Rents
FY2026
HousingU.S. Federal Housing Finance Agency
House Price Index (traditional, all-transactions)
2026 Q2
Current conditionsNOAA National Weather Service
National Weather Service current conditions
Live observation, read when the page opens

Profile recalculated October 8, 2026. Recalculation is not the same as new source data — each figure above shows the period its source actually covers. Read the full methodology, or every source with how often each updates.

ZIP codes in Gloucester Point

2 ZIP areas

Every ZIP area in Gloucester Point with census figures of its own, largest first. The ones linked below diverge enough from the city as a whole to carry a full profile; the rest track Gloucester Point closely, so their figures are here rather than on a page that would repeat this one. An Area Score is calculated for published profiles only, which is why it is blank on those rows.

ZIPPopulationMedian household incomeMedian home valueArea Score
2307213,328$74,559$311,500—
230621,745$58,750$318,50063