Brandy Station, Virginia.
Typical home $549,009 (+3.7% in a year). Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,641 (+132%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $19,363 +4%
- $529,646$549,009 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $135,169 +33%
- $413,840$549,009 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.
- Brandy Station$2,882
- Virginia$2,164
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 12 years.
Typical home values in Brandy Station, VA rose 3.7% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Brandy Station, Culpeper County, Virginia
Brandy Station, in Culpeper County, had 191 people in the 2020 census. Unemployment in Culpeper County was 3.2% in August 2026, and the county had 0.3% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Culpeper County work in schools and health care, then professional services.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Brandy Station is a very small community in Culpeper County, with far fewer people than most towns. Homes here are valued well above what is typical across much of the country, and household incomes in the county are comfortably high. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month, and summers turn properly warm by July.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, in professional and business services, in shops, and in the building trades. Among the largest workplaces across Culpeper County are Culpeper County Public Schools, Culpeper Memorial Hospital and Walmart. Unemployment in the county has held steady compared with a year earlier, and the number of jobs has edged up slightly.
Things to do. For time outdoors, the Hazel River and Mountain Run are both a short drive away, as is the Chester F. Phelps Wildlife Management Area, a protected area. Germanna, an archaeological site, is also a short drive. Shenandoah National Park is a longer drive, for a day trip into the mountains.
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What people in Culpeper County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Culpeper County had 16,412 jobs in 2025, 0.3% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 44° and lows near 23°; warmest in July, with highs near 86° and lows near 64°.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Boston Southeast weather station, 12 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Culpeper County
- Culpeper County Public SchoolsSchool district1,269FTE
- County of CulpeperHead start programs, separate from schools674
- Culpeper Memorial HospitalGeneral hospital589FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters404
- Builders FirstSourceOther building material dealers252
- Virginia IndustriesFoundries, iron211
- Cabinetworks GroupKitchen cabinets and counters, constructed on site189
- Virginia State PoliceLaw enforcement185
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 39 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 5,449 people in all across the county; Brandy Station 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
- DroughtRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- HurricanesRelatively moderate
- HailRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Brandy Station’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 Culpeper County and the Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV metro.
Brandy Station home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Brandy Station$549,009
- Virginia$412,252
- United States$366,157
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.
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Zip codes with a Brandy Station address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Brandy Station — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.