Arlington, Virginia.
Typical home $801,809 (+1.3% in a year), asking rent $2,680 (+1.1%). Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,746 (+71%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $10,015 +1%
- $791,794$801,809 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $76,380 +11%
- $725,429$801,809 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.
- Arlington$4,208
- Virginia$2,164
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 35 years.
Typical home values in Arlington, VA rose 1.3% over the past year — in step with the nation.
Asking rents in Arlington, VA rose 1.1% over the past year — slower than the nation's +2.7%.
Owning the typical home in Arlington runs $2,996/mo more than renting one. The gap peaked at $3,083 in Jan 2025.
That is $5,676 a month against $2,680 rent: a $4,208 mortgage payment, plus $609 property tax and $858 insurance & upkeep.
Owning vs renting — Arlington
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$5,676
- Renting$2,680
- Mortgage only$4,208
Property tax · $609/mo 0.91% of value a year — the ACS 2020-2024 median bill over the median home value for Arlington County, VA
Insurance & upkeep · $858/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 Arlington, Arlington County, Virginia
Arlington, in Arlington County, had 238,643 people in the 2020 census. Half its households earn more than $142,114 a year and half less, against $142,114 across Arlington County; 7% of its people live below the poverty line. 41% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 59% are rented. Unemployment in Arlington County was 2.8% in August 2026, and the county had 0.8% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in professional services, then government.
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. Arlington sits just across the Potomac from Washington, D.C., and is a dense, mostly urban community with a large population. Most households rent rather than own, and the typical age skews young compared with many parts of the country. Incomes are high, adults here are far more likely than average to hold a four-year degree, and homes and rents cost well above what is typical nationally. Winters are cold but not severe, summers run hot, and there is a modest amount of snow and a fair amount of rain through the year.
Work. Many residents work in professional and business services, government, schools and hospitals, or banking, insurance and property. Among the largest workplaces in Arlington are Arlington County Public Schools, Accenture Federal Services and Virginia Hospital Center Arlington. A good share of people work from home at least some of the time, and those who commute have a fairly typical trip to work. Unemployment is low and has edged down over the past year, while the number of jobs has grown slightly.
Things to do. The National Mall is a park a short drive away, with the Washington Monument close by and the Lincoln Memorial in or beside town. For museums, the National Museum of Natural History and the National Air and Space Museum are both a short drive away. Together they make it easy to spend a day on foot among some of the country's best known monuments and collections.
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- 112,027households
- 77%of adults have a degree
- 7%below the poverty line
- 26 mintypical commute
- 35%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Arlington County had 180,735 jobs in 2025, 0.8% more 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, 4 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Arlington
- Arlington County Public SchoolsSchool district5,149FTE
- Accenture Federal ServicesBusiness management consulting services4,779
- Virginia Hospital Center ArlingtonGeneral hospital2,798FTE
- National Experienced Workforce SolutionsTemporary staffing services1,192
- Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security AgencyFederal government · Department of Homeland Security896
- Nestle USASales management consulting services888
- Fluence EnergyBattery energy storage858
- Marymount UniversityUniversity or college725
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 103 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 23,317 people in all. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24), hospitals from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023), federal offices from OPM's federal workforce data (2026) and colleges from IPEDS (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
- Winter weatherRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively 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 Arlington’s census tracts, 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 Arlington County and the Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV metro.
Arlington home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Arlington$801,809
- 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 4 Arlington listings, and the typical home goes pending in 18 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.
- Arlington26.63%
- United States26.90%
Days to pending
How long the typical listing takes to go under contract.
- Arlington18
- United States27
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Arlington643
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Arlington232
Median sale price
What buyers actually paid — closed sales, not asking prices.
- Arlington$792,738
- United States$371,407
Sale-to-list ratio
Above 100%, homes sell over asking; below, buyers negotiate wins.
- Arlington100.07%
Zip codes with a Arlington address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Arlington — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.
Zip codes in Arlington
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 22204 | Arlington | 51,921 | $2,195 | $594,333 |
| 22201 | Arlington | 37,473 | $2,792 | $699,223 |
| 22207 | Arlington | 35,479 | $3,301 | $1,365,085 |
| 22202 | Arlington | 27,715 | $2,677 | $733,336 |
| 22203 | Arlington | 26,594 | $2,979 | $642,144 |
| 22206 | Arlington | 20,703 | $2,442 | $545,500 |
| 22205 | Arlington | 17,738 | $3,742 | $1,186,654 |
| 22209 | Arlington | 14,154 | $2,791 | $726,542 |
| 22213 | Arlington | 4,021 | $3,326 | $1,095,941 |