Unattended Death and Biohazard Cleanup in Tuckahoe, VA

Tuckahoe is a census-designated place in Henrico County, Virginia — an unincorporated suburb directly west of Richmond, not a city or town with its own government.

Tuckahoe is the largest of Henrico County's 13 census-designated places, and the Census Bureau counted 48,051 residents there in 2020, up from 44,990 in 2010.

Census Bureau QuickFacts counts about 19,541 households in Tuckahoe in 2020-2024, with about 2.48 people per household and a median household income of $102,264.

The CDP covers about 21.8 square miles along the James River, of which about 6 percent is water.

Tuckahoe takes its name from Thomas Randolph's Tuckahoe Plantation, which still stands along the James River at the western edge of the community.

Tuckahoe Plantation's main house, built in stages around 1733-1740 by the Randolph family, forms a rare H-shaped frame mansion and is a National Historic Landmark recognized as one of the finest examples of early-to-mid-18th-century domestic architecture in America.

Tuckahoe was the boyhood home of Thomas Jefferson: after William Randolph died in 1745, Peter and Jane Jefferson moved in to raise the orphaned Randolph children, and two-year-old Thomas lived there for seven years, until 1752.

The tiny schoolhouse where young Thomas Jefferson attended classes with the Randolph children still stands on the plantation grounds, part of a rare surviving plantation 'street' of early outbuildings that includes a kitchen, smokehouse, storehouse, office and two slave quarters.

The plantation stayed in the Randolph family until 1830 and has been an agricultural complex in continuous operation since the early 18th century.

Tuckahoe's adults are highly educated — about 56.6 percent of residents age 25 and older hold a bachelor's degree or higher, according to Census Bureau QuickFacts.