Basye, Virginia.
Typical home $332,282 (+2.1% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,087 (+166%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $6,844 +2%
- $325,438$332,282 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $96,640 +41%
- $235,642$332,282 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.
- Basye$1,744
- Virginia$2,164
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 10 years.
Typical home values in Basye, VA rose 2.1% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Basye, Shenandoah County, Virginia
Basye, in Shenandoah County, had 1,374 people in the 2020 census. Unemployment in Shenandoah County was 3.6% in August 2026, and the county had 3.1% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Shenandoah County work in schools and health care, then manufacturing.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Basye is a small community in Shenandoah County, in the Virginia mountains, and it is home to a ski area. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month and temperatures that often stay below freezing at night, while July brings warm days. Incomes in the county are on the modest side, and homes here are priced well above what those incomes would suggest.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, retail and the building trades also common. Across Shenandoah County, some of the largest workplaces are Shentel, Shenandoah County Public Schools and Shenandoah Memorial Hospital. Unemployment across the county has held steady compared with a year ago, though the county has fewer jobs than it did the year before, and most people travel to work rather than working from home.
Things to do. The Bryce resort, a ski area, is in or beside town. A short drive away are Shenandoah Caverns, a cave attraction, and Lost River State Park, a protected area for hiking and time outdoors. Farther afield, Shenandoah National Park and Skyline Drive offer mountain scenery a longer drive away.
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- 613households
- 9%below the poverty line
- 24 mintypical commute
- 6%work from home
What people in Shenandoah County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Shenandoah County had 13,072 jobs in 2025, 3.1% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 41° and lows near 19°; warmest in July, with highs near 84° and lows near 58°.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Lost River weather station, 10 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Shenandoah County
- ShentelTelecommunications carriers, wired1,247
- Georges Chicken1,039
- Shenandoah County Public SchoolsSchool district992FTE
- Bowman Andros ProductsPastes, fruit and vegetable, canning310
- Shenandoah Memorial HospitalCritical access hospital290FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters256
- Mercury Paper - StrasburgToilet paper made from purchased paper233
- Cabinetworks Group Mt. JacksonWood kitchen cabinet and countertop mfg194
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 32 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 5,482 people in all across the county; Basye has none of its own. 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
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- LandslidesRelatively moderate
- HurricanesRelatively moderate
- HailRelatively 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 Basye’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 Shenandoah County.
Basye home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Basye$332,282
- Virginia$412,252
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 4 Basye listings — 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.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Basye21
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Basye6
Zip codes with a Basye address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Basye — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.