Fulks Run, Virginia.
Typical home $285,786 (+1.2% in a year). Harrisonburg, VA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$228 (+18%) since Feb 2023.
- 1 year
- Up $3,409 +1%
- $282,376$285,786 since Sep 2025
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.
- Fulks Run$1,500
- Virginia$2,164
- United States$1,922
Typical home values in Fulks Run, VA rose 1.2% over the past year — in step with the nation.
Living in Fulks Run, Rockingham County, Virginia
The Census does not count Fulks Run on its own, so the figures here are Rockingham County's. Half the county's households earn more than $80,693 a year and half less; 10% of the county's people live below the poverty line. 75% of the county's homes are lived in by their owners and 25% are rented. Unemployment in Rockingham County was 3.0% in August 2026, and the county had 0.5% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Rockingham 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. The town of Fulks Run sits in Rockingham County, Virginia, where most homes are lived in by their owners and the typical resident is middle-aged. Winters are colder than in most of the country, with snow in most years, while summers are warm. Across the county, a smaller share of residents live below the poverty line than across the country, and most adults do not hold a four-year degree.
Work. Across Rockingham County, jobs have eased off slightly in the most recent year, while unemployment has stayed about the same as a year earlier and remains at a low level. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, in manufacturing, in shops, or in restaurants, hotels and entertainment. Commutes tend to be fairly short, and relatively few people work from home.
Things to do. Luray Caverns, a cave system, is a longer drive away, and Skyline Drive, a scenic road through the mountains, is also a longer drive away. Closer by, Little Dry River is a short drive away and offers a river to visit.
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- 32,686households
- 40.1median age
- 29%of adults have a degree
- 10%below the poverty line
- 22 mintypical commute
- 9%work from home
What people in Rockingham County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Rockingham County had 34,938 jobs in 2025, 0.5% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 42° and lows near 23°; warmest in July, with highs near 86° and lows near 64°. About 19 inches of snow and 39 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Dale Enterprise weather station, 14 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Rockingham County
- Sentara RMH Medical CenterGeneral hospital1,755FTE
- Merck and CoPharmaceutical preparations manufacturing1,329
- CargillTurkeys, processing, fresh, frozen, canned, or cooked1,097
- Marshalls Bridgewater MerchantsGeneral warehousing and storage1,095
- WalmartGeneral warehousing and storage920
- Shenandoah Valley OrganicPoultry771
- Pilgrim's Pride Broadway Central ProcessingPoultry slaughtering, dressing, and packing697
- VpgcChickens, processing, fresh, frozen, canned, or cooked560
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 84 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 17,421 people in all. Hospitals come 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
- Inland floodingRelatively moderate
- HurricanesRelatively moderate
- DroughtRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively moderate
- Winter weatherRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms across Rockingham 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 Rockingham County and the Harrisonburg, VA metro.
Fulks Run home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Fulks Run$285,786
- 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.
Zip codes with a Fulks Run address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Fulks Run — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.
Zillow publishes no zip-level series with this city on the address.