23062Gloucester Point, Virginia

Area Profile

Income, jobs, climate, physical risk and development data for ZIP code 23062.

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How this area ranks
Opportunity3746th of 6,210 published ZIP areas50
Housing affordability4378th of 6,685 published ZIP areas69
ClimateTop 21% of 6,789 published ZIP areas78
Physical resilienceTop 33% of 6,709 published ZIP areas72
AccessTop 43% of 6,791 published ZIP areas95
Economic stability6658th of 6,742 published ZIP areas15
The quick read

Unemployment is 3.4% and median household income $58,750, putting employment conditions in the middle range of published ZIP profiles.

Rent takes 21% of median household income here, below the 30% threshold conventionally called cost-burdened, and the median home is 5.4 times that income.

A major airport is 9 miles away, giving the area unusually direct access to the national air network.

At a glance

Population
1,745
2024 ACS 5-Year
Median household income
$58,750
Bottom 27% nationally
Density
1,129/sq mi
1.5 sq mi of land
Median age
52.3
2024 ACS 5-Year
City
Gloucester Point
Virginia
Metro area
Virginia Beach-Chesapeake-Norfolk, VA-NC
Nearest major airport
PHF
9 mi · Newport News/Williamsburg Intl
Median home value
$318,500
2024 ACS 5-Year

Jobs & opportunity

Unemployment of 3.4% is lower than 89% of the 6,544 measured US ZIP areas.

Employment fell 1.7% over the past year, to 19,732 employed residents.

36% of adults hold a four-year degree, higher than 74% of measured US ZIP areas.

MetricValueCompared with peersSource period
Median household income ±$13,639$58,750Bottom 27%2024 ACS 5-Year
Per capita income ±$6,983$33,091Bottom 37%2024 ACS 5-Year
Poverty rate20.9%Top 17%2024 ACS 5-Year
Average commute34.1 minTop 20%2024 ACS 5-Year
Bachelor's degree or higher35.7%Top 26%2024 ACS 5-Year
Employment19,732Bottom 19%June 2026
Employment change (3 years)-3.1%Bottom 10%June 2026
Employment change (year over year)-1.7%Bottom 25%June 2026
Labor force20,416Bottom 18%June 2026
Labor force participation44.7%Bottom 12%2024 ACS 5-Year
Mean annual wage$64,130Bottom 32%2025 OEWS
Median annual wage$49,430Bottom 42%2025 OEWS
Unemployment change (year over year)0.4%Top 36%June 2026
Unemployment rate3.4%Bottom 11%June 2026
Median household income, successive ACS releases
202120222023202459k50k
Each point is a separate five-year estimate, most recently $58,750 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

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 does not publish labor-force data for ZIP areas. This is the figure for Gloucester Point, VA, the city containing this ZIP code.

Housing & affordability

How it’s calculated →

Median rent of $1,004 takes 21% of median household income, below the 30% threshold at which a household is considered cost-burdened.

A median home costs 5.4 times median household income here, well above the historic benchmark, at a level conventionally described as seriously unaffordable.

Rent as a share of income
20.5%
Below the 30% cost-burdened threshold
Home price to income
5.4×
median home value ÷ median income
Median gross rent
$1,004
2024 ACS 5-Year
Median home value
$318,500
2024 ACS 5-Year
MetricValueCompared with peersSource period
Home price to income5.42Top 13%2024 ACS 5-Year
Homeownership rate50.1%Bottom 9%2024 ACS 5-Year
Housing units ±2331,096Bottom 47%2024 ACS 5-Year
Median gross rent ±$123$1,004Bottom 49%2024 ACS 5-Year
Median home value ±$89,776$318,500Top 30%2024 ACS 5-Year
Rent as a share of income20.5%Top 32%2024 ACS 5-Year
Vacancy rate26.9%Top 17%2024 ACS 5-Year

Both affordability measures come from the same ACS release as the income they are compared with, so the comparison is like for like. They describe housing cost against local earnings and are not a cost-of-living index — transport, groceries, healthcare, insurance and taxes are not included, and a place can look affordable here and still be expensive to live in for reasons this does not capture.

Growth & development

How it’s calculated →

No building-permit activity is published for this location by the Census Building Permits Survey.

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, 9.1 miles from this location.
Precipitation
JFMAMJJASOND5.4"
Normal monthly precipitation, in inches.
MetricValueSource period
Annual precipitation45.1"1991-2020 Normals
Average January low31°F1991-2020 Normals
Average July high88°F1991-2020 Normals
Comfortable months71991-2020 Normals
Seasonal temperature swing39°F1991-2020 Normals

Climate figures are thirty-year normals, not current conditions. They describe what a typical year looks like rather than what the weather is doing today.

Physical risk

72 / 100
Physical resilience

The hazards accounting for most of this area's expected annual loss are hurricane, coastal flooding and drought.

Overall hazard risk is lower than 91% of measured US ZIP areas.

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.

Hazard ratings are AreaProfile calculations derived from the FEMA National Risk Index v1.20.0 (December 2025). FEMA publishes at county level. ZIP values are the land-area-weighted mean of the counties the ZIP Code Tabulation Area intersects. Expected annual loss is not allocated below county level. FEMA does not endorse this presentation. Higher physical resilience means lower exposure.

These are deaths, not offences. AreaProfile does not publish reported crime, and this is not a substitute for it — it says nothing about burglary, theft or assault.

Gloucester County records 4.7 homicide deaths per 100,000 residents a year, near the middle of counties measured. The CDC does not publish this below county level.

Firearm deaths of all intents run at 32.5 per 100,000 — more than the homicide rate, because nationally most firearm deaths are suicides.

Drug overdose deaths run at 8.5 per 100,000 residents in Gloucester County.

Homicide
4.7
per 100,000 residents · under 10 deaths
Firearm deaths, all intents
32.5
per 100,000 residents · under 10 deaths
Drug overdose
8.5
per 100,000 residents · under 10 deaths
Suicide
32.5
per 100,000 residents · under 10 deaths

Firearm deaths count every intent together, and nationally the majority are suicides rather than homicides. The two columns overlap and should not be added.

Age-adjusted rates from provisional death certificate records, published by the CDC for Gloucester County as a whole — these rates are not published below county level. A county can hold both a dense city centre and a suburb whose experience of it is nothing alike, so this describes the county around 23062 rather than 23062 itself. That is why AreaProfile shows these figures and does not put them in the Area Score. Where fewer than ten deaths were recorded the count is suppressed at source, and a rate built on single figures moves sharply between releases. What this measure has that reported crime does not: a death certificate is filed whether or not the local police agency submitted a return that year, so the figures stay comparable between places and over time.

What this profile does not cover

Three things people look for are missing from every AreaProfile page, and each is missing for a reason rather than by oversight. The Area Score is calculated without them and the weighting is documented on the methodology page.

Reported crime
The FBI’s Crime Data Explorer is the only source for reported offences with national coverage and a published method, and it requires an API key AreaProfile does not hold. Arrest counts, news volume and commercial “safety scores” are not substituted in the meantime. What is published above under Safety is a different measurement — deaths rather than offences, from death certificates rather than police returns — and it covers no property crime at all.
Taxes
No tax dataset has met the source admission test for coverage, transparent methodology and update cadence. Nothing here is individualized tax advice.
Full cost of living
No public source publishes one with national coverage and a documented method. Housing affordability above is computed from published rent, price and income, and excludes transport, groceries, healthcare, insurance and taxes — commuting cost in particular tends to offset suburban housing savings.

Access

2 major airports lie within 100 miles, the nearest 9 miles away.

AirportCodeDistanceLongest runway
Newport News/Williamsburg IntlPHF9 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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Data & methodology

Used forSourceSource periodUpdated
AccessFederal Aviation Administration
Airports (NASR) — Aeronautical Data Delivery Service
NASR current cycle28-day NASR cycle
Physical riskFederal Emergency Management Agency
National Risk Index
National Risk Index December 2025 (v1.20.0)Periodic dataset versions (v1.20.0 current)
ClimateNOAA National Centers for Environmental Information
U.S. Climate Normals 1991–2020 (Monthly)
1991-2020 NormalsEvery ten years (next release follows the 2001–2030 period)
JobsU.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics
2025 OEWSAnnual (spring release)
JobsU.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
Local Area Unemployment Statistics
June 2026Monthly
Demographics, Housing, Income, JobsU.S. Census Bureau
American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates (Table-Based Summary File)
2024 ACS 5-YearAnnual (5-year estimates released each December)
safetyU.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Health Statistics
Provisional county-level mortality by intent
April, 2025 to March, 2026Quarterly, with a rolling twelve-month window alongside complete calendar years

Profile recalculated August 30, 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 browse every source.

23062 vs Gloucester Point

How this ZIP area compares with Gloucester Point as a whole. Both figures come from the same ACS release, so the comparison is like for like.

23062
Gloucester Point
Median household income
$58,750
vs
$74,001
Per capita income
$33,091
vs
$36,180
Population density
1,129/sq mi
vs
1,182/sq mi
Median home value
$318,500
vs
$320,700
Median gross rent
$1,004
vs
$1,062
Homeownership rate
50.1%
vs
67.0%
Bachelor's degree or higher
35.7%
vs
23.6%
Poverty rate
20.9%
vs
7.5%
Median age
52.3
vs
41.4

Some demographic statistics use Census ZIP Code Tabulation Areas, which approximate but do not exactly match USPS ZIP delivery geography. See the methodology for how AreaProfile maps between them.