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Chesterfield.

364,548 residents across 437 square miles, seated at Chesterfield Court House.

One of 12 areas our Richmond team works.

At a glanceChesterfield Court House

The publicrecord.

What the county and the census hold on Chesterfield — quoted, not estimated.

The largest place our Richmond team works, and suburban rather than urban: 364,548 people across 437 square miles between the James and the Appomattox, with no downtown of its own.

What it has instead is range — older neighborhoods along the Richmond line, planned communities around the reservoir, farmland still working at the western and southern edges.

It is not a bedroom county either. More than 10,300 businesses and a $20.2 billion economy of its own, with Maruchan, Sabra and the LEGO Group among recent arrivals.

Chesterfield, Virginia
Type
County
County seat
Chesterfield Court House
Population (2020)
364,548
Land area
437 sq mi
Communities we cover
10
Established
1749
Real estate tax rate (2026)
$0.89 per $100

Figures from Wikidata, population as of 2020. The tax rate is published by the county and set annually; check the current year before budgeting.

Where it is37.3800° N 77.5900° W

Where isChesterfield?

The nearest of our other Richmond areas is City of Colonial Heights, 13 miles off.

  • 14 mi

    Central Richmond

    south-west of center

  • 45 mi

    Williamsburg

    east

  • 68 mi

    Northern Neck

    north-east

  • 70 mi

    Charlottesville

    north-west

Distances are straight-line, not driving.

Getting around.

Four roads do most of the work here, and which one you live near matters more than the address.

  • Route 288

    The western belt route, running from I-95 at Chester up to I-64 west of Short Pump. It is what makes Midlothian, Woodlake and Moseley commutable.

  • I-95

    The eastern spine, through Chester and Bellwood. VDOT is adding lanes between Route 288 and Route 10.

  • Chippenham Parkway & Powhite Parkway

    The direct routes into Richmond from the closer-in suburbs, meeting US-360 and US-60.

  • Richmond International Airport

    Roughly 23 road miles from the middle of the county. Richmond Executive–Chesterfield County Airport handles general aviation inside the county.

Inside the county10 communities

Every communitywe cover.

10 of them have homes on the market today. Each figure is live, and opens that search.

2530 Whitecastle Dr, Midlothian, Virginia
On the market2530 Whitecastle DrMidlothian, VA 23113
  • 262MidlothianSee the homes

    America's first commercial coal mining ran here. The village core survives inside what is now the county's main retail and dining spine along Midlothian Turnpike.

  • 126ChesterSee the homes

    An old-fashioned main street at Chester Village Green, minutes from I-95 and Brightpoint Community College's Chester campus.

  • 3Bon AirSee the homes

    A Victorian resort village Richmond grew out to meet, eight miles from downtown. Its 1880s core has been a National Historic District since 1988.

  • 9EttrickSee the homes

    Home to Virginia State University, with a train station and a trailhead onto the Appomattox River Trail.

  • 2MatoacaSee the homes

    Its own main street, its own elementary, middle and high schools, and farmland — the county's rural southern edge.

  • 38BrandermillSee the homes

    A 1974 planned community on Swift Creek Reservoir named the best planned community in America in 1977; now about 13,000 residents across 80 neighborhoods, with golf and lake access.

  • 7North ChesterfieldSee the homes

    A postal name rather than a town — the closer-in, older suburbs immediately over the Richmond line.

  • 93MoseleySee the homes

    The county's western growth edge, and the address of Magnolia Green: a golf-centered community planned for around 3,000 homes.

  • 7WoodlakeSee the homes

    The western shore of Swift Creek Reservoir, planned from 1981 by the same developers as Brandermill.

  • 1BellwoodSee the home

    Built around the Defense Supply Center Richmond, hard by I-95 south of the city.

Living here6 reasons

The case forChesterfield.

The figures above read plainly, and what they look like day to day. Where something is a trade-off, it says so.

  • Space

    834 people to the square mile.

    Chesterfield is the 5th densest of the 12 Richmond areas we hold both figures for. Things are close together here, which is the trade: less land, less driving.

  • Scale

    364,548 people, as of 2020.

    The largest of the 12 Richmond areas we hold a count for, which is what gives it the choice and the turnover the smaller ones cannot offer.

  • The line that matters

    Chesterfield, seated at Chesterfield Court House.

    In Virginia the county sets the rate, runs the school division and maintains the roads — and the lines do not follow the place names, so two houses a mile apart can sit under different rates and different schools.

  • Everyday life

    Suburban, and honest about it.

    This is a county you drive in. Shopping and eating out concentrate along a few corridors rather than in a center — Chesterfield Towne Center is the region's largest enclosed mall, Westchester Commons the open-air alternative off Route 288 — and most errands are a short drive rather than a walk. The trade is space, and a lot of it.

  • How it changes

    Three counties in one, roughly.

    Near the Richmond line, Bon Air and North Chesterfield are older and established, and the housing stock shows it. The middle belt around Swift Creek Reservoir is planned-community territory. West and south — Moseley, Matoaca — is where the open land and the newest building are. Which third you buy in changes the commute, the schools and the price more than the county name does.

  • Weekends

    7,919 acres of state park, inside the county.

    Pocahontas State Park is Virginia's largest, and it is here rather than somewhere you drive to — roughly 90 miles of trail, most of it open to bikes, around the 225-acre Swift Creek Lake. Dutch Gap adds 800-plus acres on the James with a tidal water trail you can paddle.

Chesterfield on Wikipedia
SchoolsChesterfield County Public Schools

Schools andcolleges.

One division covers the whole county, which is unusual for somewhere this size — and it is large: 67 schools and about 64,194 students in 2024–25.

  • Chesterfield County Public Schools

    41 elementary, 13 middle and 10 high schools across the county. Attendance zones are set by the division and do change, so confirm the assignment for a specific address before you buy.

  • Virginia State University

    A public historically black land-grant university at Ettrick, in the south of the county.

  • Brightpoint Community College

    Campuses at Chester and Midlothian, with transfer, technical and workforce programs.

Outdoors4 of them

Where theweekends go.

The outdoor case for Chesterfield is unusually strong, and most of it is publicly owned.

  • Pocahontas State Park

    Virginia's largest state park at 7,919 acres, laid out by the Civilian Conservation Corps. Around 90 miles of trail, much of it built for mountain bikes, plus boating on the 225-acre Swift Creek Lake.

  • Dutch Gap Conservation Area

    More than 800 acres on the James, with a 4.5-mile gravel loop and a 2.5-mile tidal lagoon trail for kayaks. One of the better birding sites on the East Coast.

  • Henricus Historical Park

    The second successful English settlement in the New World, founded 1611, re-created as 14 colonial structures beside Dutch Gap.

  • Golf and the reservoir

    Brandermill and Woodlake sit on the 1,700-acre Swift Creek Reservoir; Magnolia Green's Nicklaus Design course anchors the western end of the county.

On the market885 in Chesterfield · live

Homes on themarket now.

On the market in Chesterfield right now.

13337 Beachcrest Dr, Chesterfield, VA

13337 Beachcrest Dr

Chesterfield, VA 23832

  • $687,000
  • 5 beds
  • 4 baths
  • 4,338 sqft
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Questions5 answered

What peopleask us.

Asked often enough by people moving to Chesterfield to be worth answering in writing.

Suburban and car-dependent, with a lot of green space. You get more land than you would inside Richmond, and you drive to most things. The county has no single center, so daily life tends to organize around whichever corridor you live near — Midlothian Turnpike, Route 360, or I-95 on the eastern side.

It is the reason many people move here: one county-wide school division, a large state park, and a lot of housing built for families rather than adapted for them. Confirm school assignment by address rather than by neighborhood name, since zones are set by the division and can change.

Mostly detached single-family, across a wide age range — Victorian-era stock in Bon Air, mid-century and later suburbs closer to the Richmond line, 1970s and 1980s planned communities around the reservoir, and new construction concentrated to the west and south. Townhomes cluster in the newer developments.

It depends on which third of the county you are in. Bon Air and North Chesterfield are close to downtown via Chippenham and Powhite; Midlothian and the reservoir communities rely on Route 288 and Midlothian Turnpike; Chester and Bellwood use I-95. Times vary with the peak, so treat any single number with suspicion and test the drive at the hour you would actually make it.

The county's real estate tax rate is $0.89 per $100 of assessed value for 2026, applied to both residential and commercial property. It has come down 6 cents since 2022. The rate is set annually by the Board of Supervisors, so check the current year before budgeting.

Sources · checked September 14, 2026

Tax rate · Economic development · Pocahontas State Park · Dutch Gap · Henricus · School division · Brightpoint · Transportation

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