Boyce, Virginia.
Typical home $563,570 (+3.5% in a year). Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,646 (+125%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $19,092 +4%
- $544,478$563,570 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $107,307 +24%
- $456,263$563,570 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.
- Boyce$2,958
- Virginia$2,164
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 16 years.
Typical home values in Boyce, VA rose 3.5% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Boyce, Clarke County, Virginia
Boyce is a town of 749 people in Clarke County. Half its households earn more than $88,616 a year and half less, against $117,111 across Clarke County; 3% of its people live below the poverty line. 83% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 17% are rented. Unemployment in Clarke County was 3.4% in August 2026, and the county had 6.6% 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Boyce is a very small town in Clarke County, Virginia, where nearly everyone owns the home they live in. Household incomes sit below the county's, and few residents live below the poverty line. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month and freezing nights, while July brings warm summer afternoons, and the year's rain and melted snow add up to a moderate amount.
Work. Residents work mainly in professional and business services, in schools, hospitals and social care, in the building trades and in shops. Across Clarke County, some of the largest workplaces are Clarke County Public Schools, Giant Food Stores and a book printing and binding company, Bpg-usa. Commutes are long, and a good number of residents work from home.
Things to do. The Orland E. White Research Arboretum, a botanical garden, is in or beside town. Sky Meadows State Park, a protected area, is a short drive away, and so is Fort Loudoun, an archaeological site. For a day out on the water, the Shenandoah River is a longer drive away.
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- 325households
- 23%of adults have a degree
- 3%below the poverty line
- 39 mintypical commute
- 22%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Clarke County had 4,140 jobs in 2025, 6.6% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 42° and lows near 21°; warmest in July, with highs near 87° and lows near 63°. About 40 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Winchester Southeast weather station, 7 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Clarke County
- Bpg-usaPrinting and binding books without publishing490
- Clarke County Public SchoolsSchool district291FTE
- Clarke CountyBoards of supervisors, county and local181
- Giant Food StoresGrocery stores85
- Viva Senior Living at BerryvilleAssisted-living facilities without on-site nursing care facilities68
- C2 ManagementMaterials recovery facilities60
- The Retreat at Berryville46
- AM Liner EastSewer construction40
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 8 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,007 people in all across the county; Boyce 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
- Strong windRelatively high
- DroughtRelatively moderate
- Heat wavesRelatively moderate
- HailRelatively moderate
- Inland floodingRelatively 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 Boyce’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 Clarke County and the Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV metro.
Boyce home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Boyce$563,570
- 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.
Market heat, inside the city limits
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Boyce18
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Boyce6
Zip codes with a Boyce address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Boyce — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.