South · Virginia · pop 230K
Richmond, VA
Good match
at the reference profile: one person earning $6,700/mo gross, default weights.
Personalize this score →After estimated taxes in VA, your $6,700/mo income nets about $5,091 — covering estimated essentials here (about $1,224 rent plus everyday costs incl. local sales tax) with roughly $1,368 left over.
Expect summer highs near 90°F, winter lows around 30°F, and about 210 sunny days a year.
The job market looks healthy: 3.1% unemployment and 1.4% job growth over the past year.
Tradeoff: home prices run high relative to local incomes, so buying may take longer than elsewhere.
The Richmond fit print
Est. monthly cost
$3,723/mo
Typical rent
$1,440/mo
Home value ÷ income
5.5×
Score breakdown
The data behind the score
Money (Census ACS · HUD)
- Median gross rent
- $1,330/mo
- HUD fair market rent (2BR)
- $1,440/mo
- Median home value
- $340,000
- Median household income
- $62,000
- Population
- 230,000
Work (BLS)
- Unemployment rate
- 3.1%
- Job growth (1yr)
- 1.4%
Safety (FBI CDE, per 100k)
- Violent crime rate
- 550
- Property crime rate
- 3,600
Climate (NOAA normals)
- Avg. summer high
- 90°F
- Avg. winter low
- 30°F
- Sunny days / year
- 210
- Days ≥100°F by 2050 (air temp)
- ≈11/yr
- Dangerous humid days by 2050 (feels-like)
- ≈66/yr
- Unhealthy air days
- ≈6/yr
- Annual rain
- 44"
- Annual snow
- 10"
Community & access (approx.)
- 2024 county margin
- D+65
- Int'l airport
- ≈8 mi
- Walkability
- 51/100
- Disaster risk
- 44/100
Data vintage: sample-approx-2024. Sources & methodology — this deployment is running the bundled sample dataset; figures are approximate.
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