Bristow, Virginia.
Typical home $729,809 (+2.1% in a year), asking rent $3,058 . Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$2,099 (+121%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $15,143 +2%
- $714,666$729,809 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $148,395 +26%
- $581,414$729,809 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.
- Bristow$3,831
- 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 Bristow, VA rose 2.1% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Bristow, Prince William County, Virginia
The Census does not count Bristow on its own, so the figures here are Prince William County's. Half the county's households earn more than $131,402 a year and half less; 6% of the county's people live below the poverty line. 74% of the county's homes are lived in by their owners and 26% are rented. Unemployment in Prince William County was 3.4% in August 2026, and the county had 2.0% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Prince William County work in schools and health care, then professional services.
Written by AI Claude Haiku 5.5 wrote this on 22 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Bristow is a community in Prince William County, Virginia, in the Washington area. Across the county, most homes are lived in by their owners, and household incomes are higher than most of the country's. Winters are cold and summers are hot, and most people here are settled rather than just passing through.
Work. Across Prince William County, jobs have grown over the past year, and unemployment has held steady. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, professional and business services, government, or retail. Many adults hold a college degree, and the daily drive to work is longer than the national average, though a good share of people also work from home.
Things to do. Bull Run, a river a short drive away, offers a quiet place to walk and spend time outdoors. For a longer outing, the Lincoln Memorial, a protected area, and the Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center, an aviation museum, are both a longer drive away, and each is a good full day trip.
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- 156,798households
- 36.3median age
- 45%of adults have a degree
- 6%below the poverty line
- 36 mintypical commute
- 19%work from home
What people in Prince William County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Prince William County had 146,171 jobs in 2025, 2.0% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 42° and lows near 24°; warmest in July, with highs near 88° and lows near 69°.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Manassas weather station, 3 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Prince William County
- Prince William County Public SchoolsSchool district13,415FTE
- Prince William CountyPolice protection2,231
- Checks and BalancesTemporary staffing services1,341
- Lockheed Martin Corporation US VA Manassas Godwin Dr (1030)Aeronautical systems and instruments manufacturing1,121
- Sentara Northern Virginia MED CTRGeneral hospital963FTE
- Prince William CountyCorrectional institutions923
- B&S Site DevelopmentExcavation contractors835
- Prince William CountyNature parks and other similar institutions831
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 265 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 37,937 people in all. 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
- LightningRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- Heat wavesRelatively moderate
- Inland floodingRelatively moderate
- HurricanesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms across Prince William County, 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 Prince William County and the Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV metro.
Bristow home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Bristow$729,809
- 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 3 Bristow listings, and the typical home goes pending in 11 days — the market is cooling.
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.
- Bristow30.62%
- United States26.90%
Days to pending
How long the typical listing takes to go under contract.
- Bristow11
- United States27
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Bristow56
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Bristow28
Median sale price
What buyers actually paid — closed sales, not asking prices.
- Bristow$729,774
- United States$371,553
Sale-to-list ratio
Above 100%, homes sell over asking; below, buyers negotiate wins.
- Bristow100.73%
Zip codes with a Bristow address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Bristow — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.