Alexandria, Virginia.
Typical home $662,843 (+1.0% in a year), asking rent $2,275 (-0.7%). Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,566 (+82%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $6,656 +1%
- $656,187$662,843 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $75,098 +13%
- $587,745$662,843 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.
- Alexandria$3,479
- Virginia$2,164
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 29 years.
Typical home values in Alexandria, VA rose 1.0% over the past year — in step with the nation.
Asking rents in Alexandria, VA fell 0.7% over the past year — slower than the nation's +2.7%.
Owning the typical home in Alexandria runs $2,469/mo more than renting one. The gap peaked at $2,505 in Jan 2025.
That is $4,744 a month against $2,275 rent: a $3,479 mortgage payment, plus $555 property tax and $710 insurance & upkeep.
Owning vs renting — Alexandria
The owning line is the typical home's monthly payment at that month's rate, plus property tax and insurance & upkeep; the renting line is the typical asking rent; the grey line is the mortgage payment on its own. Same homes, same months, both ways of paying for a roof.
- Owning all in$4,744
- Renting$2,275
- Mortgage only$3,479
Property tax · $555/mo 1.01% of value a year — the ACS 2020-2024 median bill over the median home value for Fairfax County, VA
Insurance & upkeep · $710/mo insurance, maintenance and repairs together, from the BLS Consumer Expenditure Survey — the national figure for mortgaged homeowners, scaled to this market's home value. BLS publishes the three bundled and they cannot be split.
Both are priced off the same month's home value, so they rise with the market. Neither is a quote — a specific home's bill depends on its assessment, its age and its insurer.
Living in Alexandria, Fairfax County, Virginia
Alexandria is a city of 159,467 people in Fairfax County. Half its households earn more than $119,681 a year and half less, against $153,637 across Fairfax County; 8% of its people live below the poverty line. 42% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 58% are rented. Unemployment in Alexandria was 3.0% in August 2026, and Fairfax County had 0.3% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in professional services, then schools and health care.
Written by AI Claude Sonnet 5.5 wrote this on 23 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. Alexandria is a city, and more of its households rent than own, a pattern that sets it apart from many American communities. Incomes here run below those across Fairfax County, though a large share of adults hold a four-year degree, and the typical home is a costly one. Winters are cold but not severe, with some snow, and summers turn hot, with rain and melted snow spread through the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in professional and business services, in schools, hospitals and social care, in government, and in restaurants, hotels and entertainment. Among the largest workplaces in Alexandria are Alexandria City Public Schools, Inova Alexandria Hospital and Kearney & Company. Unemployment has eased slightly over the past year, and a good number of people do their jobs from home, which shortens the commute for some.
Things to do. The National Mall, a park, is a short drive away, and along it stand the Washington Monument and the Lincoln Memorial, both protected areas also a short drive off. The Smithsonian Institution, a museum, is just as close, so a day of walking and gallery visits needs little planning.
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- 76,096households
- 66%of adults have a degree
- 8%below the poverty line
- 28 mintypical commute
- 29%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Fairfax County had 634,638 jobs in 2025, 0.3% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 45° and lows near 30°; warmest in July, with highs near 90° and lows near 72°. About 14 inches of snow and 42 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Washington Reagan Airport weather station, 3 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Alexandria
- Alexandria City Public SchoolsSchool district2,620FTE
- Inova Alexandria HospitalGeneral hospital1,330FTE
- Kearney & CompanyAccountants' private practices, certified public1,070
- Washington Metro Area Transit AuthorityCommuter rail systems942
- Washington Metropolitan Area Transit AuthorityCommuter transit systems, mixed mode709
- Goodwin House AlexandriaContinuing care retirement communities406
- Alexandria Police DepartmentPolice departments384
- Rand ConstructionAdministration building construction367
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 87 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 13,261 people in all. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24) and hospitals from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023); 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
- Strong windrelatively high in parts of AlexandriaRelatively moderate
- Winter weatherRelatively moderate
- Heat wavesRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Alexandria’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 Fairfax County and the Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV metro.
Alexandria home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Alexandria$662,843
- 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.
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 3 Alexandria listings, and the typical home goes pending in 16 days — the market is cooling.
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
Share of listings with a price cut
The early-warning dial: sellers cut when buyers stop reaching. Rising cuts cool a market months before prices notice.
- Alexandria30.97%
- United States26.90%
Days to pending
How long the typical listing takes to go under contract.
- Alexandria16
- United States27
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Alexandria800
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Alexandria290
Median sale price
What buyers actually paid — closed sales, not asking prices.
- Alexandria$662,854
- United States$371,407
Sale-to-list ratio
Above 100%, homes sell over asking; below, buyers negotiate wins.
- Alexandria99.90%
Zip codes with a Alexandria address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Alexandria — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.
Zip codes in Alexandria
| Zip activate to sort by Zip | Place activate to sort by Place | Population sorted descending, activate to sort ascending | Rent activate to sort by Rent | Home value activate to sort by Home value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 22304 | Alexandria | 48,613 | $1,980 | $440,940 |
| 22314 | Alexandria | 36,612 | $2,616 | $866,449 |
| 22306 | Alexandria | 30,602 | $1,951 | $629,238 |
| 22315 | Alexandria | 30,404 | $2,826 | $661,060 |
| 22310 | Alexandria | 28,136 | $2,791 | $657,282 |
| 22311 | Alexandria | 19,337 | $1,812 | $691,732 |
| 22302 | Alexandria | 18,026 | $2,276 | $422,471 |
| 22305 | Alexandria | 17,214 | $2,155 | $805,548 |
| 22301 | Alexandria | 13,665 | $2,811 | $1,062,804 |