Goshen, Virginia.
Typical home $208,426 (+4.7% in a year). Staunton, VA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$579 (+113%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $9,277 +5%
- $199,149$208,426 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $37,299 +22%
- $171,127$208,426 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.
- Goshen$1,094
- Virginia$2,164
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 18 years.
Typical home values in Goshen, VA rose 4.7% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Goshen, Bath County, Virginia
Goshen is a town of 338 people in Bath County. Unemployment in Bath County was 2.5% in August 2026, and the county had 1.7% more jobs in 2025 than the year before.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Goshen is a very small town in Bath County, Virginia, in the Allegheny Mountains, and most people here know their neighbors. Homes are modestly priced compared with much of the country. Winters are cold and snowy, with January the coldest month, and summers are warm in July without being extreme. Rain and melted snow fall steadily through the year.
Work. Work in Bath County leans on a few steady employers. The Omni Homestead Resort and Spa, Bath County Public Schools and Bath County Community Hospital are among the largest workplaces across the county. Unemployment in the county is low and has held about where it was a year earlier, and the county has added a few more jobs over the past year. A small share of people work from home.
Things to do. Water and woods are the main draw. Goshen Pass Natural Area Preserve is a protected area a short drive away, and the Calfpasture River and Little Calfpasture River are also a short drive from town. For a longer outing, Douthat State Park and Crabtree Falls, a waterfall, are each a longer drive away.
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Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 45° and lows near 23°; warmest in July, with highs near 87° and lows near 64°. About 14 inches of snow and 43 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Lexington weather station, 15 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Bath County
- The Omni Homestead Resort and SpaHotels740
- Bath County Public SchoolsSchool district143FTE
- Bath County Community HospitalCritical access hospital124FTE
- BARC Electric CooperativeDistribution of electric power68
- Speyside Bourbon Stave Mill of VirginiaSawmills61
- Dominion EnergyHydroelectric power generation49
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 5 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,134 people in all across the county; Goshen has none of its own. 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
- LightningVery high
- Inland floodingVery high
- Strong windRelatively high
- LandslidesRelatively moderate
- HurricanesRelatively moderate
- Winter weatherRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Goshen’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 Bath County and the Staunton, VA metro.
Goshen home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Goshen$208,426
- 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.
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Zip codes with a Goshen address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Goshen — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.