Chesterfield County, Virginia

County ranked by announced AI data-center load

120 MW Announced AI load

Campuses

Lead operator

CoreWeave

Resi rate Δ (Dominion Energy Virginia)

+7.2%

Home price Δ (3y)

+6.9%

Property tax Δ (3y)

+11.5%

Population (2024 ACS)

378K

Median HH income (2024 ACS)

$101,931

Key takeaways

Chesterfield County has 371,610 residents and a median household income of $98,910, the third-highest of the six Virginia counties in this batch. The 120 MW CoreWeave / Chirisa campus in Chester sits roughly 15 miles south of downtown Richmond on the Meadowville Technology Park corridor.Source: Census ACS 2023 B01003, B19013 (FIPS 51041) + app/county/va-chesterfield.html
Dominion Energy Virginia residential rates rose 7.2% from 2021 to 2023, the same rate-delta hitting every other Dominion-served county in this batch. The cost is allocated state-wide regardless of which county hosts the data-center load.Source: data/cache/utility_rate_yoy.csv (Virginia Electric & Power Co, VA)
Chesterfield property tax assessments rose 11.5% over three years on a $2,773 median bill, the second-steepest tax move of any Virginia county in this batch. Home prices rose 6.9% over the same window against a $336,700 median home value.Source: data/cache/property_tax_yoy.csv (FIPS 51041) + data/cache/realestate_yoy.csv + Census ACS 2023 B25077
42.7% of Chesterfield residents over 25 hold a bachelor's degree, well above the national 35% but below Loudoun's 64% and Henrico's 45.7%. The county is the suburban-family bedroom for Richmond, not the data-center magnet that Northern Virginia is.Source: Census ACS 2023 B15003 (Chesterfield County, VA)

Chesterfield is 23.5% Black, 11.4% Hispanic, and 3.5% Asian against a 59.5% white share. The Black population share is the second-highest in this batch behind Henrico, and well above neighboring Loudoun's 7.7%.Source: Census ACS 2023 B02001, B03003 (FIPS 51041)
Median gross rent in Chesterfield County is $1,542 per month, less than two-thirds of Loudoun's $2,317 despite the same Dominion rate-of-load shock. 77.3% of occupied homes are owner-occupied, the highest in Virginia data-center counties tied with Loudoun.Source: Census ACS 2023 B25064, B25003 (FIPS 51041)
Only 6.8% of Chesterfield residents live below the poverty line, the lowest poverty rate of any Virginia data-center county in this batch outside Loudoun and Stafford. 9.0% of adults are veterans, comparable to Henrico but well below Stafford's 17.5%.Source: Census ACS 2023 B17001, B21001 (FIPS 51041)
88.0% of Chesterfield residents lived in the same house one year earlier. The county is the suburban anchor that retains families, not the transient corridor that Loudoun has become for federal contractors.Source: Census ACS 2023 B07001 (FIPS 51041)