All 20 Virginia Beach ZIP codes
| ZIP | Type | Alias / name note | What it covers |
|---|---|---|---|
| 23450 | PO Box | – | Mail-only; residents receive street delivery through 23452 |
| 23451 | Standard | Oceanfront resort strip | Boardwalk and beachfront corridor |
| 23452 | Standard | – | Western Great Neck / Little Neck |
| 23453 | Standard | – | Rosemont / Bellamy Manor |
| 23454 | Standard | – | Great Neck / Loch Haven |
| 23455 | Standard | – | Bayside |
| 23456 | Standard | Princess Anne | South-central residential and commercial belt |
| 23457 | Standard | – | Rural south (Blackwater, Pungo, Creeds) |
| 23458 | PO Box | – | Mail-only |
| 23459 | Standard | Fort Story | Joint Expeditionary Base Little Creek–Fort Story |
| 23460 | Standard | – | Aragona / Kempsville-adjacent |
| 23461 | Standard | – | Small standard zone |
| 23462 | Standard | – | Newtown / Thoroughgood |
| 23463 | Unique | Christian Broadcasting Network | CBN headquarters mail |
| 23464 | Standard | Kempsville | Dense inland residential |
| 23465 | Unique | Christian Broadcasting Network (business reply) | CBN secondary mail code |
| 23466 | PO Box | – | Mail-only |
| 23467 | PO Box | – | Mail-only |
| 23471 | PO Box | – | Mail-only |
| 23479 | Unique | – | Single-entity code |
This full split comes from two independent USPS-sourced directories that agree on every code: ZIP-Codes.com’s Virginia Beach city page and HomeTownLocator’s county ZIP breakdown.
Why do 23453 and 23461 sometimes drop off shorter lists? Some directories only display ZIPs with published demographic tables and silently omit PO Box and Unique codes, which is why their totals read closer to 13 than 20.
Why some sites say 18, some say 20, and Zillow says 23
The 20-code, 12/3/5 split above is the one two independent USPS-sourced aggregators agree on without adding outside-city codes. Sites reporting 18 or 19 are typically dropping PO Box or Unique codes from their tables, the gap the question above addresses. Zillow’s own city-browse page is the outlier in the other direction: it lists 23 codes, and three of them (23518, 23521, 23468) don’t appear in any USPS-based Virginia Beach list gathered for this page. 23518 and 23521 correspond to Norfolk-area addresses; the browse tool appears to fold in ZIPs from a bordering jurisdiction rather than filtering strictly to Virginia Beach. A population figure of 457,900 for “all Virginia Beach ZIPs combined” circulates on at least one directory without a cited source, and it doesn’t match the Census-sourced citywide estimate closely enough to repeat here as fact.
| Source type | Codes reported | Basis |
|---|---|---|
| USPS-sourced ZIP directories | 20 | Full Standard + PO Box + Unique set |
| Map-first directories | 13 | Standard codes only; PO Box/Unique dropped |
| Zillow city-browse tool | 23 | Adds 3 codes from a neighboring jurisdiction |
The reconciliation settles on 20 as the count to use for anything address-critical, since it’s the figure two independent USPS-based sources confirm without importing codes from outside the city.
Is Zillow wrong to list 23 codes? Not exactly; it’s answering a browsing question, not a jurisdiction question, and that browse radius spills slightly past the city line.
What actually differs between these ZIPs for a real estate decision
| ZIP | Character | Median home value | Note |
|---|---|---|---|
| 23451 | Oceanfront resort strip | $591,300 | Highest values in the city; median household income $97,945 |
| 23456 | Inland suburban (Princess Anne) | $474,700 | Largest population base, over 59,000 residents |
| 23457 | Rural south (Blackwater/Pungo) | $556,900 | About 66 people per square mile; large-lot properties push the median up despite the rural setting |
| 23464 | Dense inland (Kempsville) | $355,800 | Largest inventory of moderately priced housing in the city |
| Citywide (all ZIPs blended) | – | $406,455 | Masks the $235,000 gap between 23464 and 23451 |
Source: UnitedStatesZipCodes.org, 23451; ZIP-Codes.com, 23464; UnitedStatesZipCodes.org, 23457; citywide figure from ZIP-Codes.com’s city page. A buyer using the citywide $406,455 figure as a benchmark would overshoot 23464 by roughly $50,000 and undershoot 23451 by nearly $185,000; the ZIP-level numbers are what a pre-approval or comp search should be built on, not the blended one.
Is 23451 the same as “the Oceanfront”? Locally, yes: 23451 is the ZIP most people mean when they say Oceanfront, covering the boardwalk corridor and the beachfront hotel strip.
Exceptions: military, broadcast, and mail-only codes that show up in searches
| ZIP | What it actually is | Residential population |
|---|---|---|
| 23459 | Fort Story, part of Joint Expeditionary Base Little Creek–Fort Story | 1,055 (mostly on-base personnel) |
| 23463 | Christian Broadcasting Network headquarters mail code | Not applicable; business-only |
| 23465 | CBN’s secondary business reply mail code | Not applicable; business-only |
Source: ZIP-Codes.com, 23459; ZIP-Codes.com, 23465. CBN, founded by Pat Robertson in 1960 and headquartered at 977 Centerville Turnpike since 1980, maintains both mail codes for its television and mail-order operations.
Which Virginia Beach ZIP codes are not really residential? 23463 and 23465 exist for one organization’s mail routing, and 23459 is a military installation; none of the three functions as a housing market the way the rest of the list does.
Beyond the ZIP code: flood zones and school assignment don’t follow it
A ZIP boundary is a mail-routing line, not a hazard or attendance boundary, and in a coastal city that distinction carries a dollar value. Properties inside an AE flood zone carry a 1% annual chance of flooding, which works out to roughly a 26% chance over a standard 30-year mortgage term, and that risk sits inside individual ZIPs unevenly, not along their edges, according to the Virginia Beach Planning Department.
School assignment works the same way. Virginia Beach City Public Schools approved a rezoning plan for the 2025 to 2026 school year that moved attendance for Arrowhead, Kempsville, Pembroke, and Point O’ View elementary schools along with Independence, Kempsville, and Larkspur middle schools, none of which required a ZIP code to change. A house and its next-door neighbor can share a ZIP and sit in different attendance zones entirely.
Does my ZIP code tell me my flood zone? No. Flood zone designation is parcel-specific and has to be confirmed through the city’s GIS viewer or FEMA’s Map Service Center, not inferred from the ZIP.
How to confirm the exact ZIP and school zone for an address
The USPS address lookup tool returns the correct ZIP+4 for any specific address, which resolves the boundary questions the list above can’t. For schools, the VBCPS School Locator linked above takes an address directly and returns the assigned elementary, middle, and high school, independent of ZIP.
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