Belle Haven, Virginia.
Typical home $311,754 (+9.8% in a year), asking rent $2,074 (-2.7%). Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$916 (+127%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $27,891 +10%
- $283,863$311,754 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $65,061 +26%
- $246,693$311,754 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.
- Belle Haven$1,636
- 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 Belle Haven, VA rose 9.8% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Asking rents in Belle Haven, VA fell 2.7% over the past year — slower than the nation's +2.7%.
Owning the typical home in Belle Haven runs $157/mo more than renting one. The gap peaked at $173 in Sep 2025.
That is $2,231 a month against $2,074 rent: a $1,636 mortgage payment, plus $261 property tax and $334 insurance & upkeep.
Owning vs renting — Belle Haven
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$2,231
- Renting$2,074
- Mortgage only$1,636
Property tax · $261/mo 1.01% of value a year — the ACS 2020-2024 median bill over the median home value for Fairfax County, VA
Insurance & upkeep · $334/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 Belle Haven, Fairfax County, Virginia
Belle Haven, in Fairfax County, had 6,851 people in the 2020 census. Half its households earn more than $140,574 a year and half less, against $153,637 across Fairfax County; 2% of its people live below the poverty line. 75% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 25% are rented. Unemployment in Fairfax County was 3.3% in August 2026, and the county had 0.3% fewer 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 26 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. Belle Haven is a community in Fairfax County, Virginia, where most homes are lived in by their owners and very few residents live below the poverty line. Household incomes run a little below the county's, and a large majority of adults hold a four-year degree. Winters are cold, with January days staying cool and nights below freezing, and summers are warm, with July the hottest month; rain and melted snow fall steadily through the year.
Work. Residents work mainly in professional and business services, government, schools, hospitals and social care. Walmart and Neighborhood Health - Richmond Highway are among the largest workplaces in Belle Haven itself. Commutes are on the long side, and a fair number of people work from home. Across Fairfax County, jobs slipped slightly last year and unemployment is low.
Things to do. Washington's best-known sights are a short drive away. The National Mall is a long park lined with monuments and museums, and the Smithsonian Institution's collections are close by, including the National Air and Space Museum. The Lincoln Memorial, one of the capital's most visited monuments, is also a short drive away.
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- 2,849households
- 71%of adults have a degree
- 2%below the poverty line
- 34 mintypical commute
- 26%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Fairfax County had 634,638 jobs in 2025, 0.3% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 44° and lows near 27°; warmest in July, with highs near 88° and lows near 69°. About 47 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Oxon Hill weather station, 4 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Belle Haven
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters326
- Neighborhood Health - Richmond HighwayPhysicians', mental health, offices120
- NAI Saturn EasternSupermarkets and other grocery stores101
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 3 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 547 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 moderate
- Inland floodingRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Belle Haven’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 Fairfax County and the Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV metro.
Belle Haven home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Belle Haven$311,754
- Virginia$412,252
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 4 Belle Haven listings — the market is heating up.
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.
- Belle Haven26.96%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Belle Haven7
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Belle Haven14
Zip codes with a Belle Haven address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Belle Haven — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.
Zip codes in Belle Haven
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 22307 | Alexandria | 10,343 | $2,087 | $735,408 |
| 23306 | Belle Haven | 1,729 | — | $310,690 |