Arrington, Virginia.
Typical home $241,125 (+3.5% in a year). Charlottesville, VA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$752 (+146%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $8,044 +3%
- $233,080$241,125 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $61,713 +34%
- $179,412$241,125 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.
- Arrington$1,266
- Virginia$2,164
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 12 years.
Typical home values in Arrington, VA rose 3.5% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Arrington, Nelson County, Virginia
Arrington, in Nelson County, had 718 people in the 2020 census. 92% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 8% are rented. 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Arrington is a small community in Nelson County, Virginia, where nearly everyone lives in a home they own. Homes here are valued below what is typical across much of the country. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month, and summers are warm, July being the warmest, with a good deal of rain and melted snow over the course of the year.
Work. Residents of Arrington work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by professional and business services, restaurants, hotels and entertainment, and shops. Across Nelson County, the largest workplaces include Wintergreen Resort, Nelson County Public Schools and Food Lion. Getting to work takes a fairly long commute for many people, and unemployment across the county is unchanged from a year earlier.
Things to do. The Tye River and the Piney River are both a short drive away, and James River State Park, a protected area, is close by as well. For a longer drive, Crabtree Falls is a waterfall that draws visitors from around the region.
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- 38 mintypical commute
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 48° and lows near 26°; warmest in July, with highs near 87° and lows near 66°. About 46 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Tye River Southeast weather station, 4 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; Arrington 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
- DroughtRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- LightningRelatively 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 Arrington’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively moderate. 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.
Arrington home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Arrington$241,125
- 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.
Zip codes with a Arrington address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Arrington — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.