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The median home value in South Boston, VA is $152,426, up 6.32% from a year earlier.
City housing-data period: September 2026. City source retrieval/check time (UTC) is recorded in the feed's updated field when available, not in the housing-data period.
Checked daily for new monthly Zillow releases, not new daily prices. Income and crime data are updated separately, not by the daily housing-data check. Unavailable means observation dates are missing or invalid.
Median Home Value
$152,426
Year-over-Year
+6.32%
Population
7,757
The typical home value decreased by 0.3%, from $152,904 in May 2026 to $152,426 in Sep 2026.
Monthly Zillow Home Value Index snapshots retained by HomePriceMap. A short history is shown now and grows automatically as each new monthly release arrives.
| Month | Typical home value | Year-over-year change |
|---|---|---|
| May 2026 | $152,904 | +9.0% |
| Jun 2026 | $155,860 | +8.4% |
| Jul 2026 | $154,271 | +7.4% |
| Aug 2026 | $152,829 | +7.0% |
| Sep 2026 | $152,426 | +6.3% |
South Boston ranks #58 of 61 Virginia cities tracked here by median home value, and sits 52.0% below the state's city median of $317,266. It sits in Halifax County, where the county-wide median is $151,216.
South Boston police recorded a violent crime rate of 464 per 100,000 residents in 2024 — higher than most cities that report to the FBI. Property crime runs at 2,514 per 100,000.
Reported by the city's own police department to the FBI's Uniform Crime Reporting Program (what this covers).
People often call this an average home price, but the figure shown here is Zillow's typical home value (ZHVI), not a simple arithmetic average. In South Boston, that value is $152,426. That's up 6.32% from a year earlier. It is about 52.0% below the typical Virginia city tracked here.
Homes in South Boston are more expensive than Halifax County as a whole, where the median is $151,216 — a difference of about 0.8%.
South Boston police reported 464 violent crimes per 100,000 residents, covering a population of about 7,757. Crime rates are one input among many — they vary block to block within a city, and this figure is a citywide average.
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