Afton, Virginia.
Typical home $478,814 (+4.4% in a year). Charlottesville, VA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,431 (+132%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $20,168 +4%
- $458,646$478,814 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $111,165 +30%
- $367,649$478,814 since Sep 2021
Monthly payment to buy the typical home
Home value × that month's 30-year mortgage rate, 20% down, principal and interest. This is the line households feel: prices and rates compound each other.
- Afton$2,513
- Virginia$2,164
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 13 years.
Typical home values in Afton, VA rose 4.4% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Afton, Nelson County, Virginia
Afton, in Nelson County, had 313 people in the 2020 census. Unemployment in Nelson County was 3.2% in August 2026, and the county had 0.1% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Nelson County work in schools and health care, then professional services.
Written by AI Claude Sonnet 5.5 wrote this on 24 October 2026 from the figures here, a list of nearby places and what it knows. It can be wrong or out of date.
What it’s like
The place. Afton is a very small community in Nelson County, Virginia, where homes are valued well above what is typical for many parts of the country. Household incomes across Nelson County are a little below what people earn in many other places, and winters here are cold while summers run warm. Rain and melted snow add up to a fairly wet year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, in professional and business services, in restaurants, hotels and entertainment, and in shops. Across Nelson County, some of the biggest workplaces are Wintergreen Resort, Nelson County Public Schools and Food Lion. Joblessness in the county is the same as it was a year earlier, and the number of jobs has slipped only slightly.
Things to do. Wintergreen Resort, a ski area, is only a short drive away. A longer drive brings you to Crabtree Falls, a waterfall, and to the Fralin Museum of Art. The Tye River and the Doyles River are also within a longer drive for time near the water.
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What people in Nelson County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Nelson County had 3,980 jobs in 2025, 0.1% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 44° and lows near 23°; warmest in July, with highs near 86° and lows near 63°. About 45 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Waynesboro Wtp weather station, 5 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Nelson County
- Wintergreen ResortSki lodges and resorts with accommodations644
- Nelson County Public SchoolsSchool district301FTE
- Food LionGrocery stores67
- Three Notch'd 151 - Beer, Bourbon and FoodFull service restaurants59
- Silver Creek OrchardsApple orchards31
- Bold Rock - NellysfordCider, alcoholic, manufacturing23
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 5 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 824 people in all across the county; Afton has none of its own. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24); FTE marks full-time equivalent staff. Not listed: many offices and banks, which need not report to OSHA; military bases, whose staff OPM withholds; and, in about half the states, city and county governments.
Natural hazards
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- Strong windrelatively high in parts of AftonRelatively moderate
- Lightningrelatively high in parts of AftonRelatively moderate
- Winter weatherRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Afton’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively low. It is meant for planning, not a substitute for a local risk assessment or a flood map: FEMA’s index.
From the U.S. Census Bureau’s 2020 census and its American Community Survey (2020–2024 five-year estimates), and the Bureau of Labor Statistics. A survey, so each figure has a margin of error, and figures it is not sure of are left out. More on Nelson County and the Charlottesville, VA metro.
Afton home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Afton$478,814
- Virginia$412,252
- United States$366,157
Levy by levy, and a check of one home’s own bill, the site covers Ohio’s property tax.
When this market ran hot
Each cell is that month's year-on-year home-value growth. Read left to right, top row is the latest year — the 2021–22 band is the boom.
Market heat, inside the city limits
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Afton17
Zip codes with a Afton address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Afton — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.