Ararat, Virginia.
Typical home $193,548 (+2.5% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$466 (+85%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $4,783 +3%
- $188,765$193,548 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $7,384 +4%
- $186,164$193,548 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.
- Ararat$1,016
- Virginia$2,164
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 89 years.
Typical home values in Ararat, VA rose 2.5% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Ararat, Patrick County, Virginia
The Census does not count Ararat on its own, so the figures here are Patrick County's. Half the county's households earn more than $53,038 a year and half less; 12% of the county's people live below the poverty line. 77% of the county's homes are lived in by their owners and 23% are rented. Unemployment in Patrick County was 3.8% in August 2026, and the county had 1.6% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Patrick County work in schools and health care, then manufacturing.
Written by AI Claude Haiku 5.5 wrote this on 22 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Ararat is a small town in Patrick County, in southern Virginia. Across the county, most homes are lived in by their owners, and residents tend to be older on average than most of the country. Household incomes are lower than the typical American household's, and a larger share of residents live below the poverty line than is usual nationally.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, in manufacturing, in shops, or in professional and business services. Unemployment in the county was a little lower in August of this year than a year before, though the number of jobs fell slightly over the past year. Fewer adults hold a degree than in most of the country, and the typical commute is longer than the usual American one, while working from home is less common here than in many places.
Things to do. Birds Branch runs in or beside the town, and the Ararat River is a short drive away. For a longer outing, Tory's Falls is a waterfall a longer drive off, and Hanging Rock State Park is a protected area also a longer drive away. Winters here are cold, summers are warm, snow is light, and rain is plentiful through the year.
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- 7,781households
- 51.8median age
- 15%of adults have a degree
- 12%below the poverty line
- 31 mintypical commute
- 13%work from home
What people in Patrick County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Patrick County had 4,043 jobs in 2025, 1.6% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 46° and lows near 25°; warmest in July, with highs near 82° and lows near 62°. About 7 inches of snow and 59 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Meadows Of Dan Southwest weather station, 6 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Patrick County
- Patrick County Public SchoolsSchool district469FTE
- Ten OaksWood flooring manufacturing194
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters178
- Hill Valley HealthcareSkilled nursing facilities146
- Aerial Machine & Tool123
- Hill Valley HealthcareAssisted-living facilities with on-site nursing facilities41
- Panel Processing of VirginiaFixtures, store display, manufacturing20
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 6 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 702 people in all. 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
FEMA rates every natural hazard here relatively low or very low.
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms across Patrick County, against the rest of the country; all of them together, very 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 Patrick County.
Ararat home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Ararat$193,548
- Virginia$412,252
- United States$366,157
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.
- Ararat15
Zip codes with a Ararat address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Ararat — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.