Catharpin, Virginia.
Typical home $1,083,189 (+4.5% in a year). Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$3,224 (+131%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $46,381 +4%
- $1,036,808$1,083,189 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $247,284 +30%
- $835,905$1,083,189 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.
- Catharpin$5,685
- 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 Catharpin, VA rose 4.5% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Catharpin, Prince William County, Virginia
The Census does not count Catharpin 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Catharpin is a community in Prince William County, Virginia, where most homes are lived in by their owners. Household incomes are high across the county, and only a small share of residents live below the poverty line. Winters are cold, with snow most years, and summers are hot.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, in professional and business services, in government, or in shops. Jobs across the county grew slightly over the past year, and unemployment has held steady. Most residents travel out to their jobs, and a small share work from home.
Things to do. The Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center, a museum, is a short drive away. For a longer outing, the National Mall is a park, and the Lincoln Memorial is a protected area, both a longer drive away.
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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 43° and lows near 25°; warmest in July, with highs near 88° and lows near 67°. About 21 inches of snow and 43 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Washington Dc Dulles Airport weather station, 8 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.
Catharpin home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Catharpin$1,083,189
- 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.
Zip codes with a Catharpin address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Catharpin — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.