Castleton, Virginia.
Typical home $600,396 (+3.9% in a year). Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,680 (+114%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $22,690 +4%
- $577,706$600,396 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $112,964 +23%
- $487,432$600,396 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.
- Castleton$3,151
- Virginia$2,164
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 17 years.
Typical home values in Castleton, VA rose 3.9% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Castleton, Rappahannock County, Virginia
The Census does not count Castleton on its own, so the figures here are Rappahannock County's. Half the county's households earn more than $83,380 a year and half less; 10% of the county's people live below the poverty line. 73% of the county's homes are lived in by their owners and 27% are rented. Unemployment in Rappahannock County was 2.9% in August 2026, and the county had 2.7% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Rappahannock 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Castleton is in Rappahannock County, Virginia, where winters are cool and summers are warm. Across the county, most homes are lived in by their owners, and the population is older than in most of the country. Home values are well above the typical American home.
Work. Across Rappahannock County, jobs grew over the past year and unemployment has held steady at a low level. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, professional and business services, building trades, or local shops. Some people work from home, and a good share of adults hold a four-year degree.
Things to do. Rush River and Covington River run in or beside town, and Thornton River is a short drive away. Shenandoah National Park, a national park a longer drive away, is among the best known places nearby. Luray Caverns, a tourist attraction also a longer drive away, is another option for a day out.
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- 2,985households
- 50.6median age
- 33%of adults have a degree
- 10%below the poverty line
- 36 mintypical commute
- 17%work from home
What people in Rappahannock County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Rappahannock County had 1,570 jobs in 2025, 2.7% 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, 6 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Rappahannock County
- Rappahannock County Public SchoolsSchool district158FTE
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
FEMA rates every natural hazard here relatively low or very low.
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms across Rappahannock County, against the rest of the country; all of them together, very 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 Rappahannock County and the Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV metro.
Castleton home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Castleton$600,396
- 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.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a Castleton address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Castleton — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.