Fort Hunt, Virginia.
Typical home $998,193 (+2.9% in a year), asking rent $4,274 . Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$2,562 (+96%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $28,332 +3%
- $969,861$998,193 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $144,045 +17%
- $854,148$998,193 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.
- Fort Hunt$5,239
- Virginia$2,164
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 22 years.
Typical home values in Fort Hunt, VA rose 2.9% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Fort Hunt, Fairfax County, Virginia
Fort Hunt, in Fairfax County, had 17,231 people in the 2020 census. Half its households earn more than $216,038 a year and half less, against $153,637 across Fairfax County; 2% of its people live below the poverty line. 94% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 6% are rented. Unemployment in Fairfax County was 3.3% in August 2026, and the county had 0.3% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in professional services, then government.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Fort Hunt is a community of homeowners, with far more homes lived in by their owners than renters, and incomes well above the county's. Residents tend to be somewhat older than in many places, and nearly all adults have a four-year degree. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month and freezing nights, while summers turn hot, with July the warmest, and rain and melted snow fall steadily through the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in professional and business services, government, schools and hospitals, and banks, insurance and property. Across Fairfax County, the largest workplaces include Fairfax County Public Schools, Inova Fairfax Hospital and George Mason University. A good number of people work from home, and those who commute spend a fair stretch of time getting to their jobs.
Things to do. The National Mall, a park, is a longer drive away, and it leads to the Washington Monument and the Lincoln Memorial, both protected areas of the best-known kind. The Smithsonian Institution, a museum, is also a longer drive away. Closer to home, the Anacostia River is a short drive away.
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- 5,957households
- 81%of adults have a degree
- 2%below the poverty line
- 31 mintypical commute
- 31%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Fairfax County had 634,638 jobs in 2025, 0.3% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 44° and lows near 27°; warmest in July, with highs near 88° and lows near 69°. About 47 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Oxon Hill weather station, 5 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Fairfax County
- Fairfax County Public SchoolsSchool district28,829FTE
- Inova Fairfax HospitalGeneral hospital11,085FTE
- George Mason UniversityUniversity or college6,112
- J & J Worldwide ServicesBase facilities operation support services3,025
- Northern Virginia Community CollegeTwo-year college2,762
- MTSI Modern Tech SolutionsDefense contract engineering services2,334
- Clark Construction GroupAddition, alteration and renovation for-sale builders, commercial and institutional building2,204
- Hilton Worldwide Holdings, Inc.Hotels2,186
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 664 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 129,174 people in all across the county; Fort Hunt has two of its own. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24), hospitals 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
- Winter weatherRelatively moderate
- Inland floodingRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Fort Hunt’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 Fairfax County and the Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV metro.
Fort Hunt home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Fort Hunt$998,193
- Virginia$412,252
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 4 Fort Hunt 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.
- Fort Hunt22.93%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Fort Hunt33
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Fort Hunt14
Median sale price
What buyers actually paid — closed sales, not asking prices.
- Fort Hunt$1,056,569
- United States$370,717
Zip codes with a Fort Hunt address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Fort Hunt — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.