Ashburn, Virginia.
Typical home $795,910 (+0.5% in a year), asking rent $2,934 (+0.3%). Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$2,115 (+103%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $4,223 +1%
- $791,687$795,910 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $123,858 +18%
- $672,051$795,910 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.
- Ashburn$4,178
- Virginia$2,164
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 20 years.
Typical home values in Ashburn, VA rose 0.5% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Asking rents in Ashburn, VA rose 0.3% over the past year — slower than the nation's +2.7%.
Owning the typical home in Ashburn runs $2,659/mo more than renting one. The gap peaked at $2,865 in Jan 2025.
That is $5,594 a month against $2,934 rent: a $4,178 mortgage payment, plus $564 property tax and $852 insurance & upkeep.
Owning vs renting — Ashburn
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$5,594
- Renting$2,934
- Mortgage only$4,178
Property tax · $564/mo 0.85% of value a year — the ACS 2020-2024 median bill over the median home value for Loudoun County, VA
Insurance & upkeep · $852/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 Ashburn, Loudoun County, Virginia
Ashburn, in Loudoun County, had 46,349 people in the 2020 census. Half its households earn more than $154,978 a year and half less, against $181,765 across Loudoun County; 4% of its people live below the poverty line. 68% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 32% are rented. Unemployment in Loudoun County was 3.3% in August 2026, and the county had 3.4% more 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. Ashburn is a large suburban community in Loudoun County, with a middle-aged population and a high level of education: most adults hold a four-year degree. Household incomes run well above the national picture, though a little below the county's own, and few residents live below the poverty line. Most homes are lived in by their owners, and typical home values and rents are high.
Work. Residents work mostly in professional and business services, in schools, hospitals and social care, in banks, insurance and property, and in shops. Among the town's largest workplaces are Verizon Communications, Erickson Living and Nightwing Intelligence Solutions. A good share of residents work from home, and those who commute face a drive of moderate length. Unemployment is low and has held steady over the past year, while the county has added jobs.
Things to do. The Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center, a museum, is a short drive away. The museums and monuments of Washington are a longer drive, among them the Smithsonian Institution, the National Mall, and the Lincoln Memorial. Winters are cold, with the chill deepest in January, and summers are warm, with July the hottest month. Rain and melted snow are fairly generous through the year.
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- 17,513households
- 66%of adults have a degree
- 4%below the poverty line
- 27 mintypical commute
- 30%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Loudoun County had 204,941 jobs in 2025, 3.4% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 42° and lows near 25°; warmest in July, with highs near 87° and lows near 67°. About 45 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Weather Office Sterling weather station, 4 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Ashburn
- Verizon CommunicationsWired telecommunications carriers1,557
- Erickson LivingCcrc961
- Nightwing Intelligence SolutionsEngineering services724
- DullesMail and parcel delivery673
- TelosComputer hardware consulting services or consultants575
- Wegmans Food MarketsRetail supermarkets422
- Loudoun WaterWater treatment and distribution374
- Prospect Waterproofing CompanyAsphalt roof shingle installation346
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 29 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 7,485 people in all. 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 high in parts of AshburnRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively moderate
- Heat wavesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Ashburn’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 Loudoun County and the Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV metro.
Ashburn home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Ashburn$795,910
- 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 Ashburn listings, and the typical home goes pending in 14 days — the market is roughly in balance.
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.
- Ashburn33.94%
- United States26.90%
Days to pending
How long the typical listing takes to go under contract.
- Ashburn14
- United States27
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Ashburn327
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Ashburn135
Median sale price
What buyers actually paid — closed sales, not asking prices.
- Ashburn$785,731
- United States$371,407
Sale-to-list ratio
Above 100%, homes sell over asking; below, buyers negotiate wins.
- Ashburn99.91%
Zip codes with a Ashburn address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Ashburn — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.
Zip codes in Ashburn
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 20147 | Ashburn | 67,692 | $2,775 | $746,114 |
| 20148 | Ashburn | 64,021 | $3,240 | $869,300 |