Broadway, Virginia.
Typical home $323,013 (+2.8% in a year). Harrisonburg, VA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$962 (+131%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $8,944 +3%
- $314,068$323,013 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $77,903 +32%
- $245,110$323,013 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.
- Broadway$1,695
- Virginia$2,164
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 13 years.
Typical home values in Broadway, VA rose 2.8% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Broadway, Rockingham County, Virginia
Broadway is a town of 4,170 people in Rockingham County. Half its households earn more than $64,669 a year and half less, against $80,693 across Rockingham County; 13% of its people live below the poverty line. 64% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 36% are rented. Unemployment in Rockingham County was 3.0% in August 2026, and the county had 0.5% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in schools and health care, then manufacturing.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Broadway is a small town in Rockingham County, in the Shenandoah Valley. Incomes here run below the county's, and more homes are lived in by their owners than rented, though a good number of households do rent. Winters are cold, with a fair amount of snow, and summers are warm.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, retail, and professional and business services also common. Across Rockingham County, the largest workplaces include Sentara RMH Medical Center, Merck and Co, and Cargill. The typical commute is moderate, and only a small share of people work from home.
Things to do. Endless Caverns, a cave attraction, is a short drive away, as is New Market Battlefield State Historical Park, a Civil War site. Smith Creek and the Shoemaker River are also close by for time near the water. For a longer outing, Shenandoah National Park is a longer drive away.
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- 1,833households
- 28%of adults have a degree
- 13%below the poverty line
- 24 mintypical commute
- 8%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Rockingham County had 34,938 jobs in 2025, 0.5% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 42° and lows near 23°; warmest in July, with highs near 86° and lows near 64°. About 19 inches of snow and 39 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Dale Enterprise weather station, 13 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Rockingham County
- Sentara RMH Medical CenterGeneral hospital1,755FTE
- Merck and CoPharmaceutical preparations manufacturing1,329
- CargillTurkeys, processing, fresh, frozen, canned, or cooked1,097
- Marshalls Bridgewater MerchantsGeneral warehousing and storage1,095
- WalmartGeneral warehousing and storage920
- Shenandoah Valley OrganicPoultry771
- Pilgrim's Pride Broadway Central ProcessingPoultry slaughtering, dressing, and packing697
- VpgcChickens, processing, fresh, frozen, canned, or cooked560
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 84 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 17,421 people in all across the county; Broadway has two of its own. Hospitals come 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
- Strong windRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively moderate
- Heat wavesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Broadway’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 Rockingham County and the Harrisonburg, VA metro.
Broadway home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Broadway$323,013
- 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 Broadway 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.
- Broadway24.60%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Broadway26
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Broadway9
Zip codes with a Broadway address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Broadway — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.