See JD Vance's homes, from his humble childhood house in Ohio to the vice president's palatial residence

• Before he entered politics, JD Vance was best known as the author of the memoir "Hillbilly Elegy."

• The former Ohio senator grew up in the Rust Belt and still has a house in Cincinnati.

• Take a look at all the homes linked to the Yale graduate, former Marine, and current vice president.

Inauguration Day is also moving day.

Donald Trump returned to the White House, and JD Vance headed to the vice president's residence.

Before politics, the 40-year-old Republican was best known as the author of "Hillbilly Elegy," a memoir of his childhood in the Rust Belt. Vance made thousands in royalties after it became a New York Times bestseller in 2016. It was adapted into a 2020 film of the same name starring Amy Adams and Glenn Close.

Vance attended Yale Law School after a four-year stint in the Marines and getting his bachelor's degree at Ohio State.

His rise to fame also cast a spotlight on his wife, Usha Vance, whom he met at Yale and married in 2014. Since tying the knot, the couple has welcomed three children and relocated several times.

When Vance worked at a venture capital firm connected to former PayPal CEO Peter Thiel, they lived in San Francisco. In 2022, Vance was elected to the Senate in 2022 as the representative of Ohio. Trump tapped him as his running mate in 2024.

From the house that inspired "Hillbilly Elegy" to his new home in the vice president's official residence, here's a closer look at Vance's real-estate journey. Representatives for Vance did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

Vance's childhood home is a two-story detached property with a porch in Middletown, Ohio.

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 a 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

In 2014, the Vances purchased a townhouse in Washington DC's Capitol Hill neighborhood, which they now rent to a tenant — who said they were good landlords.

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. Around that time, Usha was a clerk for Brett Kavanaugh, then on the DC Circuit Court of Appeals.

The house is located on a quiet, tree-lined street. Before the 2024 election, when a BI reporter paid a visit, many of the homes' small yards were adorned with red, white, and blue for the Olympics as well as tiny rainbow Pride flags — including one in Vance's yard.

The couple currently does not occupy the home and rented it out as recently as 2024. 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 of 2024 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.

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. During the 2020 election, Biden captured 81% of the vote in Alexandria.

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."

The Vances moved out of their Alexandria home in January, to move into the Vice President's mansion. The home is not yet on the market.

Now that the Trump-Vance ticket is in office, the Vances are occupying the Vice President's official residence.

In January, Vance moved his family into the Vice President's residence in Washington DC.

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, at 1 Observatory Circle, was originally built in 1893 and has been through several renovations since — the most recent renovations took place in 2021. Former Vice President Kamala Harris waited over two months before moving in as interior designer Sheila Bridges outfitted the first-floor public spaces with furniture, fixtures, and art made by American craftsmen. (After each administration, the furniture is boxed up and the art is returned to the people or museums that loaned it out, according to the Washington Post.)

The 9,000-square-foot house, with 33 rooms, sits on a 72-acre plot of land and is not open to the public.

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