Hamilton, Virginia.
Typical home $906,020 (+5.1% in a year). Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$2,691 (+130%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $43,994 +5%
- $862,025$906,020 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $217,038 +32%
- $688,982$906,020 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.
- Hamilton$4,755
- Virginia$2,164
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 13 years.
Typical home values in Hamilton, VA rose 5.1% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Hamilton, Loudoun County, Virginia
Hamilton is a town of 619 people in Loudoun County. Half its households earn more than $141,250 a year and half less, against $181,765 across Loudoun County; 0% of its people live below the poverty line. 86% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 14% are rented. Unemployment in Loudoun County was 3.3% in August 2026, and the county had 3.4% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in professional services, then schools and health care.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Hamilton is a very small town in Loudoun County, Virginia, where nearly everyone lives in a home they own. Household incomes run below the county's, though still well above what is typical for much of the country, and no one in town falls below the poverty line. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month, and summers are warm, with July the hottest. Rain and melted snow add up to a fair amount through the year.
Work. Many residents work in professional and business services, in schools, hospitals and social care, in the building trades, or in government. Across Loudoun County, some of the largest workplaces are Loudoun County Public Schools, Northrop Grumman Systems and Inova Health Systems. Unemployment is low and has held steady over the past year, and a good number of people work from home, which helps keep the typical commute moderate.
Things to do. A short drive away is Segra Field, a stadium, and the Journey Through Hallowed Ground National Heritage Area, a protected stretch of historic countryside. A longer drive brings you to Harpers Ferry National Historical Park, a protected area, and to Great Falls Park, a protected area built around a waterfall on the Potomac.
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- 222households
- 0%below the poverty line
- 26 mintypical commute
- 33%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Loudoun County had 204,941 jobs in 2025, 3.4% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 41° and lows near 24°; warmest in July, with highs near 86° and lows near 66°. About 44 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Purcellville weather station, 2 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Loudoun County
- Loudoun County Public SchoolsSchool district13,168FTE
- United Continental Holdings Inc IAD7,714
- Northrop Grumman SystemsManufacture of satellites2,569
- Dynalectric Company - WashingtonElectrical contractors2,332
- Rosendin - EastElectrical contractors2,128
- Inova Health SystemsHospitals, psychiatric convalescent1,953
- Verizon CommunicationsWired telecommunications carriers1,557
- Inova Loudoun Hospital CenterGeneral hospital1,431FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 296 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 56,274 people in all across the county; Hamilton 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
- DroughtRelatively moderate
- Winter weatherRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively moderate
- Heat wavesRelatively 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 Hamilton’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 Loudoun County and the Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV metro.
Hamilton home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Hamilton$906,020
- Virginia$412,252
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 4 Hamilton 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.
- Hamilton25.75%
- United States26.36%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Hamilton20
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Hamilton8
Zip codes with a Hamilton address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Hamilton — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.