Home prices in Chesapeake run 11% below the national median: $375,000 versus $420,000. Relative to the $80,000 median household income here, the price-to-income ratio comes out to 4.7x.
Property taxes in Chesapeake run 0.91% of assessed value, below the 1.1% national average. On the median home, that's $3,413 a year, or $284 added to the monthly payment.
Unlike the nine no-income-tax states, Virginia taxes wage income. Worth running your actual take-home pay against the $2,385/month payment here before locking in a target price.
Day-to-day expenses in Chesapeake track at 101 against the national 100 baseline, above average once you look past the mortgage payment itself.
Chesapeake's median home price runs 7% higher than nearby Richmond: $350,000 there versus $375,000 here.