Vance’s childhood home is a two-story detached property with a porch in Middletown, Ohio.
Vance’s childhood home in Middletown, Ohio, was a fixture of his 2016 novel “Hillbilly Elegy.” Scott Olson/Getty Images
The steelworks town of Middletown, Ohio, was thrust into the spotlight thanks to “Hillbilly Elegy.”
It’s a relatively small city, less than an hour’s drive from Cincinnati, with an estimated population of around 51,000. Vance was born and raised in Middletown but has roots in Kentucky, where his family still owns a small cemetery on the side of a mountain.
Vance lived at the light blue house on McKinley Street with his mom, whose struggle with addiction was documented in his memoir.
According to Realtor.com, the 2,000-square-foot house with three bedrooms and two bathrooms underwent an extensive renovation in 2017. The real-estate website also said that the property, which it estimates has a current value of $223,400, was considered “middle class” when Vance grew up there.
Zillow, however, reported that a house with the same square footage — that appears to match Vance’s childhood home based on recent photographs — has four bedrooms, not three, and is currently valued at $219,300.
Vance and his wife purchased a historic home in a fairly liberal neighborhood of Cincinnati in 2018.
Vance and his wife bought a property in a Cincinnati neighborhood where most people voted for President Joe Biden in the 2020 general election. Bilanol
In 2017, Vance sold his rights to his memoir to Imagine Entertainment, an entertainment production company.
The move laid the foundation for the Ron Howard-directed film adaptation. While it wasn’t considered a box-office hit, “Hillbilly Elegy” has seen a spike in interest following Vance’s VP nomination. In early July, it was one of the 10 most-watched films on Netflix, with over 4.8 million views.
Shortly after his deal with Imagine Entertainment, Vance and his wife bought a historic home on William Howard Taft Road in East Walnut Hills, Cincinnati.
In contrast to Vance’s political beliefs, the neighborhood is left-leaning. The New York Times reported that 85% of voters in the area voted for President Joe Biden during the 2020 election.
The five-bedroom property is described on the real-estate website Redfin as over 6,000 square feet set on 2.29 acres overlooking the Ohio River. Vance bought it in 2018 for just under $1.4 million.
Before the sale, a local historian told local TV station WCPO that the house was a “rustic” blend of “mid-century Gothic Revival” and “High Victorian Gothic” design.
In 2014, the Vances purchased a townhouse in Washington DC’s Capitol Hill neighborhood, which they now rent to a tenant — who gives them good reviews as landlords.
A group of rowhomes in DC’s Capitol Hill neighborhood. Jordan Pandy/Business Insider
As many senators and politicians do, Vance owns a home in Washington, DC’s Capitol Hill neighborhood — about a mile from the US Capitol.
Property records show that Vance and his wife purchased the white-brick rowhouse in 2014 for $590,000. The two were recently married. Usha was a clerk for Brett Kavanaugh, then on the DC Circuit Court of Appeals, around that time.
The house is located on a quiet, tree-lined street. On a recent Friday, when a BI reporter paid a visit, many of the homes’ small yards were decorated with red, white, and blue for the Olympics as well as tiny rainbow Pride flags — including one in Vance’s yard.
Currently, the couple does not occupy the home and instead rents it out. According to Redfin, the house was listed for rent in October 2023 for $3,700 a month.
The current tenant told the Washington Post in July that she plans to stay there for a while and that her landlords are nice and responsive.
“I love this house. I love this block. I want to be here for a long time,” she said. “So I want to be a good tenant. And I have great landlords — Usha’s great.”
After Vance became a senator, he bought a $1.64 million house in a DC suburb.
The Del Ray neighborhood in the Washington, DC suburb of Alexandria, Virginia. Jordan Pandy/Business Insider
According to Politico and local publication the Washingtonian, Vance purchased another DC-area home in February 2023.
The house in Alexandria, Virginia — a city across the Potomac River from DC — sold for $1.64 million to an LLC, property records show.
Del Ray, the Alexandria neighborhood where Vance reportedly bought a home, is a fairly left-leaning neighborhood with Pride flags and other rainbow decorations in many local businesses on the main road. Biden captured 81% of the vote in Alexandria during the 2020 election.
The more than 2,500-square-foot, five-bedroom house is near a small park.
Residents of the liberal neighborhood are mostly indifferent about the Vances’ presence, according to the Washingtonian, but a local artist did “yarn-bomb” an area outside the home, hanging crocheted Pride, bi flags, trans flags, and a pink sign that read “Respect our Rights.”
“I’m not the only person who was sort of baffled and, to be honest, a bit dismayed that someone who had so vocally expressed contempt for the kinds of people who live here and the kind of values that we hold had decided to be our neighbor,” the yarn artist told the Washingtonian. “Knowing that this person has been really publicly antagonistic to LGBTQ people, to immigrants, to women’s rights—it felt appropriate to publicly declare what we stand for in this community.”
If the Trump-Vance ticket wins in November, the Vances would move into the Vice President’s official residence.
Number One Observatory Circle is the official residence of the US Vice President. Pablo Martinez Monsivais, File/AP
The Vice President’s mansion is a property that Vance could add to his collection.
Located in Northwest Washington, DC, on the grounds of the US Naval Observatory, the Vice President’s residence has been occupied by the second in command since Walter Mondale lived there in 1977.
The home was originally built in 1893 and has been through several renovations since — the most recent renovations took place in 2021. Current vice president and presumptive Democratic nominee Kamala Harris waited over two months before moving in.
The 9,000-square-foot house sits on a 72-acre plot of land and is not open to the public.