Huntly, Virginia.
Typical home $632,227 (+5.9% in a year). Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,797 (+118%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $35,393 +6%
- $596,834$632,227 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $119,376 +23%
- $512,850$632,227 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.
- Huntly$3,318
- Virginia$2,164
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 17 years.
Typical home values in Huntly, VA rose 5.9% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Huntly, Rappahannock County, Virginia
The Census does not count Huntly on its own, so the figures here are Rappahannock County's. Half the county's households earn more than $83,380 a year and half less; 10% 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 Rappahannock County was 2.9% in August 2026, and the county had 2.7% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Rappahannock County work in schools and health care, then professional services.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Huntly is a small town in Rappahannock County, Virginia, in the rolling country of the Blue Ridge foothills. Winters are cold and snowy, and summers are warm, with rain falling across much of the year. Across the county, most homes are lived in by their owners, and many residents have lived there for years.
Work. Across Rappahannock County, many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, professional and business services, the building trades, and shops. Unemployment has held level over the past year, and job numbers rose a little in the most recent year. Some residents work from home, and others drive to work.
Things to do. Shenandoah National Park is a national park a longer drive away, and it is one of the best known places in the area. Skyline Caverns, a tourist attraction, is a short drive away, and the Shenandoah River, a river, is also a short drive away.
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- 2,985households
- 50.6median age
- 33%of adults have a degree
- 10%below the poverty line
- 36 mintypical commute
- 17%work from home
What people in Rappahannock County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Rappahannock County had 1,570 jobs in 2025, 2.7% more 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, 7 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Rappahannock County
- Rappahannock County Public SchoolsSchool district158FTE
School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24); 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
FEMA rates every natural hazard here relatively low or very low.
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms across Rappahannock County, against the rest of the country; all of them together, very 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 Rappahannock County and the Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV metro.
Huntly home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Huntly$632,227
- 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 Huntly address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Huntly — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.