Fort Valley, Virginia.
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to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,135 (+110%) since Jan 2020.
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.
- Virginia$2,164
- United States$1,922
Living in Fort Valley, Shenandoah County, Virginia
The Census does not count Fort Valley on its own, so the figures here are Shenandoah County's. Half the county's households earn more than $67,191 a year and half less; 12% 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 Shenandoah County was 3.6% in August 2026, and the county had 3.1% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Shenandoah County work in schools and health care, then manufacturing.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Fort Valley is a community in Shenandoah County, in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia, with the Blue Ridge mountains nearby. Winters are cold and snowy, summers are warm, and rain and melted snow fall steadily through the year. Across the county, more homes are lived in by their owners than rented, incomes run below the country's typical household, and the typical resident is somewhat older than the country's typical resident.
Work. Across Shenandoah County, unemployment is low and was close to the same a year earlier, though the number of jobs eased slightly over the past year. Most residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, manufacturing, shops, or the building trades. Fewer adults hold a four-year degree here than in the country as a whole, and relatively few people work from home.
Things to do. Shenandoah National Park, a national park a longer drive away, offers mountain scenery and the well-known Skyline Drive. Luray Caverns, a tourist attraction also a longer drive off, takes visitors through underground caves. Seven Bends State Park, a protected area a short drive away, is a quieter place to spend an afternoon outdoors.
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- 17,962households
- 42.9median age
- 22%of adults have a degree
- 12%below the poverty line
- 28 mintypical commute
- 9%work from home
What people in Shenandoah County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Shenandoah County had 13,072 jobs in 2025, 3.1% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 42° and lows near 21°; warmest in July, with highs near 86° and lows near 63°. About 24 inches of snow and 40 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Woodstock Northeast weather station, 4 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Shenandoah County
- ShentelTelecommunications carriers, wired1,247
- Georges Chicken1,039
- Shenandoah County Public SchoolsSchool district992FTE
- Bowman Andros ProductsPastes, fruit and vegetable, canning310
- Shenandoah Memorial HospitalCritical access hospital290FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters256
- Mercury Paper - StrasburgToilet paper made from purchased paper233
- Cabinetworks Group Mt. JacksonWood kitchen cabinet and countertop mfg194
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 32 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 5,482 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
- Strong windRelatively moderate
- Inland floodingRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms across Shenandoah County, 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 Shenandoah County.
Fort Valley home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Market heat, inside the city limits
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Fort Valley6
Zip codes with a Fort Valley address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Fort Valley — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.