Fairfield, Virginia.
Typical home $367,076 (+5.4% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,050 (+120%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $18,670 +5%
- $348,407$367,076 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $84,058 +30%
- $283,018$367,076 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.
- Fairfield$1,927
- 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 Fairfield, VA rose 5.4% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Fairfield, Rockbridge County, Virginia
Fairfield, in Rockbridge County, had 257 people in the 2020 census. 96% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 4% are rented. Unemployment in Rockbridge County was 3.1% in August 2026, and the county had 2.0% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Rockbridge County 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Fairfield is a very small community in Rockbridge County, home to few people. Residents tend to be older than in much of the country, and nearly everyone owns the home they live in, with renters rare. Hardly anyone lives below the poverty line, and typical home values run high for the area. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month, and summers are warm, with July the warmest.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, retail, and professional and business services also common. Across Rockbridge County, the largest workplaces include Virginia Military Institute, Rockbridge County Public Schools and Modine Manufacturing Company's Rockbridge plant. Unemployment in the county is low and little changed from a year earlier, and the county has added jobs over the past year. A typical commute is a fairly long one, though not unusual for a rural area.
Things to do. The land around Fairfield is good for time near water and woods. The South River and the Saint Marys River are a short drive away, as is Saint Mary's Wilderness, a protected area. Crabtree Falls, a waterfall, is a longer drive away and worth planning a day around.
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- 2%below the poverty line
- 27 mintypical commute
What people in Rockbridge County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Rockbridge County had 6,230 jobs in 2025, 2.0% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 41° and lows near 20°; warmest in July, with highs near 83° and lows near 60°.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Montebello Fish Cultural Station weather station, 9 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Rockbridge County
- Virginia Military InstituteUniversity or college630
- Rockbridge County Public SchoolsSchool district521FTE
- Mohawk IndustriesCarpet436
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters283
- Kendal at LexingtonRetirement homes with nursing care164
- Lowe's Companies, INCHomecenter110
- Rockbridge Area Community Services BoardCommunity action service agencies109
- UTS SystemsTents made from purchased fabrics109
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 19 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,718 people in all across the county; Fairfield has one of its own. Colleges come from IPEDS (NCES, 2023–24) and school districts 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
- LightningVery high
- Strong windRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- LandslidesRelatively moderate
- DroughtRelatively moderate
- WildfireRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Fairfield’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 Rockbridge County.
Fairfield home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Fairfield$367,076
- 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.
- Fairfield10
Zip codes with a Fairfield address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Fairfield — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.