Geographic-scope notice: Portsmouth Heights is not a separately-incorporated place in the U.S. Census Bureau's Place geography – it is either a neighborhood within a larger municipality (in Portsmouth city) or a town-class subdivision in a state where the Census reports demographics at the town rather than place level. To avoid presenting county-level aggregates as city-level data, this page does not show synthetic Census or health figures for Portsmouth Heights. For the surrounding county aggregates, see the Virginia state directory.
Area profile (no Census Place)
Portsmouth HeightsVA
Portsmouth Heights, VA (in Portsmouth city) is not a Census Place. Areazine keeps this area page for alerts and navigation, without a place-level population or demographic snapshot.
Portsmouth city, Virginia. Portsmouth Heights has no Census Place boundary in the ACS geography Areazine uses, so this page does not invent a population or income figure for the named area. Use the state directory for surrounding county aggregates and the alerts below when the area appears in a federal feed.
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The quick read
Reading Portsmouth Heights, VA beyond the headline numbers
Portsmouth Heights sits inside Portsmouth city, Virginia, at roughly 36.82°N, -76.37°W. The Census Bureau does not publish a Place-level population for Portsmouth Heights, so Areazine does not invent one; county aggregates live on the Virginia state directory.
5 hospitals in/around Portsmouth Heights (nearest 2.1 mi away), 3.5/5 avg rating, 5 with an ER. Climate: 60.1°F annual average, 53.6" precipitation.
Sources: U.S. Census ACS, CDC PLACES, CMS Hospital Compare, plus live alerts for Portsmouth Heights from FEMA, NOAA, FDA, and CPSC. Economic comparison bars use the unweighted average across tracked Census places with a reported value, not a household-weighted national median.
Nearby Hospital Options 5 within 25 mi
CMS Overall Hospital Quality Star Rating (1-5): a composite score across dozens of reported measures, not a single outcome guarantee for any patient. It isn't adjusted for patient case mix and isn't directly comparable across hospital types, a critical-access facility and a large teaching hospital aren't rated on the same measure set.
Climate
NOAA 1991-2020 NormalsCost of Living
BEA 20242.1% below national average
Metro area: Virginia Beach-Norfolk-Newport News, VA-NC (MSA)
Source: BEA Regional Price Parities via FRED. RPP of 100 = national average.
Flood Insurance Claims History
FEMA NFIP, county-level299 flood insurance claims have been filed in Portsmouth city since 2016, with $5.6M paid out by the NFIP.
Hurricane Matthew alone generated 187 of those claims, the county's largest named flood event in this record.
Source: FEMA National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) claims, via OpenFEMA. County-level data: individual claims are not attributed to a specific city or address by FEMA.
What alerts and safety updates affect Portsmouth Heights?
No area-tagged alerts are on record for Portsmouth Heights right now. New federal and counterpart-agency notices still land in the site feed as agencies publish them.
City alert dispatch desk
Sheet VA-PORTSMOUTH-HEIGHTS · Portsmouth Heights
Portsmouth Heights: no area-tagged alerts on record. State hubs carry the live CAP stream.
- FEED-QUIET No tagged alerts
- LEAD-NONE Feed idle
- DESK-IDLE Awaiting feed
Counts reflect published articles tagged to Portsmouth Heights; untagged NOAA county warnings may still appear in the site feed. Browse Virginia state hubs · Methodology
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What to do with Portsmouth Heights's numbers
Use this page for area alerts and navigation, not as a Census Place demographic report for Portsmouth Heights.
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Portsmouth Heights falls outside ACS Census Place geography, so no place-level population or income figure is shown here. See the state and cities directories for county aggregates and nearby Places instead.
Data Sources
All data on this page comes from official U.S. government sources. Population and economic data from the Census Bureau American Community Survey (2024 5-year estimates, place geography). Health data from the CDC PLACES program (2023). Hospital ratings from CMS Hospital Compare (2024). Climate data from NOAA. Education data from NCES. Cost of living from Bureau of Economic Analysis. Crime statistics, where referenced on Areazine, originate from the FBI Crime Data Explorer. Housing market figures referenced on Areazine come from HUD Fair Market Rents. Census economics and population are at place geography; some health and hospital indicators are reported at the county level (Portsmouth city) where that is the smallest published unit.
Every figure on Areazine is published directly from official U.S. government sources, no number is typed in by an editor. Portsmouth Heights is not a Census Place; this page does not invent place-level population or demographics. County aggregates and peer Places are linked from the state and cities directories. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of 2026-09-16.