Some parts of Virginia are seeing a housing boom while other areas are seeing a decline.
New Kent County in Tidewater Virginia is experiencing a housing boom. Census numbers posted to the Virginia Public Access Project show that since 2020, housing in New Kent County has grown by more than 20%. Mel Jones is associate director of the Virginia Center for Housing Research at Virginia Tech, and she says it’s important to consider scale.
“If you only have, you know, 500 homes in a community, and then you add 100, right? That’s a huge percentage growth, that’s 20%,” Jones says. “And so, sometimes you’ll see these great fluctuations in rural places because only a few homes make a big percentage change. So, it’s important to look at both the numbers and the percentage.”…