Esmont, Virginia.
Typical home $278,085 (+2.3% in a year). Charlottesville, VA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$763 (+109%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $6,165 +2%
- $271,920$278,085 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $57,616 +26%
- $220,470$278,085 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.
- Esmont$1,460
- 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 Esmont, VA rose 2.3% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Esmont, Albemarle County, Virginia
Esmont, in Albemarle County, had 491 people in the 2020 census. Unemployment in Albemarle County was 3.3% in August 2026, and the county had 1.0% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Albemarle 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Esmont is a very small community in Albemarle County, Virginia, home to a small number of residents. Home values here run below what many Virginia buyers expect to pay, and a small share of residents live below the poverty line. Fewer adults hold a four-year degree here than is typical for the county, and winters are cold but not severe, with summers that turn properly warm in July and a steady year-round supply of rain and melted snow.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, in professional and business services, in shops, and in restaurants, hotels and entertainment. Across Albemarle County, some of the largest workplaces are Sentara Martha Jefferson Hospital, Albemarle County's own fire and rescue service, and Region Ten Community Services Board. The commute is fairly long, and only a small share of people work from home. Unemployment across the county sits where it did a year earlier, and the number of jobs has edged up.
Things to do. The closest outing is the Rockfish River, a short drive away and a quiet place to be near water. A longer drive brings you to Crabtree Falls, a waterfall, and to the Fralin Museum of Art, a museum. Those who like a night out can drive farther to The Jefferson Theater, one of the area's theatres.
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- 20%of adults have a degree
- 6%below the poverty line
- 26 mintypical commute
- 6%work from home
What people in Albemarle County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Albemarle County had 65,494 jobs in 2025, 1.0% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 44° and lows near 28°; warmest in July, with highs near 84° and lows near 68°. About 48 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Charlottesville Sse weather station, 14 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Albemarle County
- Sentara Martha Jefferson HospitalGeneral hospital1,130FTE
- Albemarle CountyFire and rescue service917
- Region Ten Community Services BoardSocial workers' , mental health, offices595
- Faulconer Construction CompanyUtility line, construction559
- Northrop Grumman SystemsSearch detection navigation guidance aeronautical and nautical system and instrument manufacturing450
- Piedmont Virginia Community CollegeTwo-year college443
- Wegmans Food MarketsRetail supermarkets423
- Albemarle High SchoolSchools, secondary344
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 114 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 15,300 people in all across the county; Esmont has none of its own. Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023) and colleges from IPEDS (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
- DroughtRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- HurricanesRelatively moderate
- Winter weatherRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Esmont’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 Albemarle County and the Charlottesville, VA metro.
Esmont home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Esmont$278,085
- 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.
- Esmont6
Zip codes with a Esmont address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Esmont — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.