Bealeton, Virginia.
Typical home $511,713 (+2.4% in a year). Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,438 (+115%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $11,758 +2%
- $499,955$511,713 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $103,439 +25%
- $408,274$511,713 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.
- Bealeton$2,686
- Virginia$2,164
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 15 years.
Typical home values in Bealeton, VA rose 2.4% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Bealeton, Fauquier County, Virginia
Bealeton, in Fauquier County, had 5,882 people in the 2020 census. 79% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 21% are rented. Unemployment in Fauquier County was 2.8% in August 2026, and the county had 0.5% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in schools and health care, then construction.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Bealeton is a community in Fauquier County, Virginia, where most homes are lived in by their owners and the share of people below the poverty line is small. Home values run high, and household incomes across the county are well above what many parts of the country see. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month, and summers are warm, with July the warmest.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, in the building trades, or in professional and business services. Across Fauquier County, some of the largest workplaces are Fauquier County Public Schools, Fauquier County Government and Fauquier Hospital. The typical commute is a long one, and a good number of people work from home.
Things to do. For time outdoors, the Hazel River and Whitney State Forest, a protected area, are both a short drive away. Weston, a museum, is also close by. A longer drive reaches the Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center, a museum, for those who want a day out.
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- 1,619households
- 25%of adults have a degree
- 2%below the poverty line
- 37 mintypical commute
- 11%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Fauquier County had 23,920 jobs in 2025, 0.5% 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 85° and lows near 66°.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Warrenton Southeast weather station, 7 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Fauquier County
- Fauquier County Public SchoolsSchool district1,826FTE
- Fauquier County GovernmentCounty supervisors' and executives' offices979
- Fauquier HospitalGeneral hospital488FTE
- Federal Aviation AdministrationFederal government · Department of Transportation388
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters312
- Greentree HealthcareSkilled nursing facilities215
- Smith-Midland Corporation (Virginia)Concrete products, precast, manufacturing150
- Federal Aviation AdministrationFederal government · Department of Transportation144
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 43 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 6,747 people in all across the county; Bealeton has one of its own. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24), hospitals from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023) and federal offices from OPM's federal workforce data (2026); 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
- LightningRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- Strong windrelatively high in parts of BealetonRelatively moderate
- Heat wavesRelatively 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 Bealeton’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively 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 Fauquier County and the Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV metro.
Bealeton home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Bealeton$511,713
- 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 Bealeton 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.
- Bealeton23.06%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Bealeton34
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Bealeton14
Zip codes with a Bealeton address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Bealeton — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.