Front Royal, Virginia.
Typical home $383,566 (+2.8% in a year), asking rent $1,944 (+1.6%). Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,123 (+126%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $10,383 +3%
- $373,183$383,566 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $82,439 +27%
- $301,127$383,566 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.
- Front Royal$2,013
- Virginia$2,164
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 14 years.
Typical home values in Front Royal, VA rose 2.8% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Asking rents in Front Royal, VA rose 1.6% over the past year — slower than the nation's +2.7%.
Owning the typical home in Front Royal runs $646/mo more than renting one. The gap peaked at $663 in Jul 2025.
That is $2,591 a month against $1,944 rent: a $2,013 mortgage payment, plus $167 property tax and $411 insurance & upkeep.
Owning vs renting — Front Royal
The owning line is the typical home's monthly payment at that month's rate, plus property tax and insurance & upkeep; the renting line is the typical asking rent; the grey line is the mortgage payment on its own. Same homes, same months, both ways of paying for a roof.
- Owning all in$2,591
- Renting$1,944
- Mortgage only$2,013
Property tax · $167/mo 0.52% of value a year — the ACS 2020-2024 median bill over the median home value for Warren County, VA
Insurance & upkeep · $411/mo insurance, maintenance and repairs together, from the BLS Consumer Expenditure Survey — the national figure for mortgaged homeowners, scaled to this market's home value. BLS publishes the three bundled and they cannot be split.
Both are priced off the same month's home value, so they rise with the market. Neither is a quote — a specific home's bill depends on its assessment, its age and its insurer.
Living in Front Royal, Warren County, Virginia
Front Royal is a town of 15,011 people in Warren County. Half its households earn more than $64,838 a year and half less, against $84,682 across Warren County; 14% of its people live below the poverty line. 58% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 42% are rented. Unemployment in Warren County was 3.3% in August 2026, and the county had 3.1% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in schools and health care, then shops.
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. Front Royal is a town in Warren County, Virginia, with a population somewhat younger than many American towns. Household incomes here run well below the county's, and more people are renters than across the county as a whole, though most homes are still lived in by their owners. Winters are cold, with highs and lows in January that stay near or below freezing overnight, and summers turn hot by July; the year brings a fair amount of snow and a good deal of rain.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, in professional and business services, and in the building trades. Among the largest workplaces in town are Warren County Public Schools, Giant Company and American HealthCare. Few adults hold a four-year degree, a good share of people work from home, and the typical commute is a long one.
Things to do. The Shenandoah River runs in or beside town, and Skyline Caverns, a tourist attraction, is right there as well. A short drive away is Cedar Creek and Belle Grove National Historical Park, a protected area, and Shenandoah National Park lies a longer drive off for those who want more room to roam.
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- 5,976households
- 19%of adults have a degree
- 14%below the poverty line
- 33 mintypical commute
- 9%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Warren County had 12,966 jobs in 2025, 3.1% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 43° and lows near 24°; warmest in July, with highs near 87° and lows near 64°. About 21 inches of snow and 43 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Front Royal weather station, 2 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Front Royal
- Warren County Public SchoolsSchool district790FTE
- Giant CompanyGrocery stores167
- American HealthCareNursing care facilities85
- BrightSpring Health ServicesResidential intellectual and developmental disability facilities77
- MCAP SoutherlandsAssisted living community73
- Sodexo at Warren County PS CustodialJanitorial services72
- Smithsonian Institution (except Units Administered Under Separate Boards of Trustees)Federal government · Smithsonian Institution66
- Roofsimple Main OfficeSteep slope roofing installation63
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 11 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 710 people in all. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24) and federal offices from OPM's federal workforce data (2026); 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
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- Winter weatherrelatively high in parts of Front RoyalRelatively moderate
- HailRelatively moderate
- Heat wavesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Front Royal’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 Warren County and the Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV metro.
Front Royal home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Front Royal$383,566
- Virginia$412,252
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 3 Front Royal listings, and the typical home goes pending in 30 days — the market is cooling.
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.
- Front Royal33.41%
- United States26.90%
Days to pending
How long the typical listing takes to go under contract.
- Front Royal30
- United States27
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Front Royal135
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Front Royal45
Median sale price
What buyers actually paid — closed sales, not asking prices.
- Front Royal$343,225
- United States$371,407
Sale-to-list ratio
Above 100%, homes sell over asking; below, buyers negotiate wins.
- Front Royal98.59%
Zip codes with a Front Royal address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Front Royal — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.