Leesburg, Virginia.
Typical home $848,639 (+2.7% in a year), asking rent $2,431 (+3.6%). Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$2,398 (+117%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $22,452 +3%
- $826,187$848,639 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $168,800 +25%
- $679,839$848,639 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.
- Leesburg$4,454
- Virginia$2,164
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 16 years.
Typical home values in Leesburg, VA rose 2.7% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Asking rents in Leesburg, VA rose 3.6% over the past year — faster than the nation's +2.7%.
Owning the typical home in Leesburg runs $3,533/mo more than renting one. The gap peaked at $3,556 in Jan 2025.
That is $5,964 a month against $2,431 rent: a $4,454 mortgage payment, plus $601 property tax and $909 insurance & upkeep.
Owning vs renting — Leesburg
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$5,964
- Renting$2,431
- Mortgage only$4,454
Property tax · $601/mo 0.85% of value a year — the ACS 2020-2024 median bill over the median home value for Loudoun County, VA
Insurance & upkeep · $909/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 Leesburg, Loudoun County, Virginia
Leesburg is a town of 48,250 people in Loudoun County. Half its households earn more than $145,205 a year and half less, against $181,765 across Loudoun County; 7% of its people live below the poverty line. 69% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 31% are rented. Unemployment in Leesburg was 3.2% in August 2026, and Loudoun 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. Leesburg is a town in Loudoun County with a good many young families and working-age adults, and a population that skews younger than most places. Household incomes here run below the county's, though the county is among the better-off in the country, and homes here are expensive to buy or rent. Most homes are lived in by their owners, and a large share of adults hold a four-year degree. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month, and summers are warm, with rain and melted snow spread across the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in professional and business services, in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, and in restaurants, hotels and entertainment. Among the largest workplaces in Leesburg are the Federal Aviation Administration, Target and Costco Wholesale. Jobs across Loudoun County grew over the past year, and unemployment in town is low and little changed from a year earlier. A fair number of people work from home, and the commute for those who travel to work is moderate.
Things to do. Close to town, Broad Run and Goose Creek are rivers a short drive away, and Segra Field is a stadium in or beside town. With a longer drive, you can reach the Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center, a museum, and Great Falls Park, a protected area with a waterfall.
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- 16,660households
- 57%of adults have a degree
- 7%below the poverty line
- 25 mintypical commute
- 28%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, 8 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Leesburg
- Federal Aviation AdministrationFederal government · Department of Transportation520
- TargetDiscount department stores336
- Costco WholesaleWholesale grocer310
- Town of LeesburgRecreational sports club facilities249
- Green Tree Healthcare ManagementSkilled nursing facilities229
- VB Spine LLC LeesburgImplants, surgical, manufacturing225
- Dulles Motor CarsParts and accessories dealers, automotive175
- American HealthCareNursing care facilities174
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 31 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 3,186 people in all. Federal offices come from OPM's federal workforce data (2026). 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
- Winter weatherRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively 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 Leesburg’s census tracts, 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 Loudoun County and the Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV metro.
Leesburg home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Leesburg$848,639
- Virginia$412,252
- United States$366,157
Levy by levy, and a check of one home’s own bill, the site covers Ohio’s property tax.
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 3 Leesburg listings, and the typical home goes pending in 19 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.
- Leesburg30.10%
- United States26.90%
Days to pending
How long the typical listing takes to go under contract.
- Leesburg19
- United States27
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Leesburg278
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Leesburg107
Median sale price
What buyers actually paid — closed sales, not asking prices.
- Leesburg$778,313
- United States$371,407
Sale-to-list ratio
Above 100%, homes sell over asking; below, buyers negotiate wins.
- Leesburg99.29%
Zip codes with a Leesburg address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Leesburg — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.
Zip codes in Leesburg
| Zip activate to sort by Zip | Place activate to sort by Place | Population sorted descending, activate to sort ascending | Rent activate to sort by Rent | Home value activate to sort by Home value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 20176 | Leesburg | 51,471 | $2,387 | $828,624 |
| 20175 | Leesburg | 34,733 | $2,485 | $827,121 |