Locust Grove, Virginia.
Typical home $430,106 (+0.8% in a year), asking rent $2,533 . Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,224 (+119%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $3,466 +1%
- $426,640$430,106 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $67,882 +19%
- $362,224$430,106 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.
- Locust Grove$2,258
- Virginia$2,164
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 20 years.
Typical home values in Locust Grove, VA rose 0.8% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Locust Grove, Orange County, Virginia
The Census does not count Locust Grove on its own, so the figures here are Orange County's. Half the county's households earn more than $94,008 a year and half less; 10% of the county's people live below the poverty line. 79% of the county's homes are lived in by their owners and 21% are rented. Unemployment in Orange County was 3.5% in August 2026, and the county had 1.9% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Orange County work in schools and health care, then construction.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Locust Grove is a small community in Orange County, Virginia, where many residents are in middle age and most households own the homes they live in. Across Orange County, most homes are lived in by their owners, which gives the area a settled feel. Winters are cold, with some snow, and summers are warm and fairly wet, so the seasons are clearly marked.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, in the building trades, in shops, or in professional and business services. Across Orange County, unemployment has held steady over the past year, and the number of jobs has dipped a little from the year before. A minority of adults hold a four-year degree, and few workers work from home.
Things to do. Germanna is an archaeological site a short drive away, and the Rapidan River, also a short drive off, is a good place to spend a quiet afternoon. For a longer outing, Lake Anna State Park is a protected area a longer drive away, with water and open land to explore.
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- 14,856households
- 42.1median age
- 30%of adults have a degree
- 10%below the poverty line
- 37 mintypical commute
- 14%work from home
What people in Orange County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Orange County had 9,409 jobs in 2025, 1.9% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 46° and lows near 25°; warmest in July, with highs near 88° and lows near 68°. About 11 inches of snow and 43 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Fredericksburg Sewage weather station, 19 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Orange County
- Orange County Public SchoolsSchool district765FTE
- Germanna Community CollegeTwo-year college662
- Aerojet Rocketdyne VA Culpeper 7499 Pine Stake Rd ARMSGuided missile and space vehicle propulsion unit and propulsion unit parts manufacturing362
- Dogwood Village H&RNursing homes251
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters243
- Green ApplicationsScreen printing apparel and textile products138
- EmersonPlumbers' handtools, nonpowered, manufacturing130
- US LBM HoldingsEngineered wood member manufacturing114
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 16 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,742 people in all. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24) and colleges from IPEDS (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
- DroughtRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms across Orange 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 Orange County and the Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV metro.
Locust Grove home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Locust Grove$430,106
- 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 Locust Grove listings, and the typical home goes pending in 47 days — 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.
- Locust Grove33.32%
- United States26.90%
Days to pending
How long the typical listing takes to go under contract.
- Locust Grove47
- United States27
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Locust Grove151
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Locust Grove39
Median sale price
What buyers actually paid — closed sales, not asking prices.
- Locust Grove$421,308
- United States$371,407
Sale-to-list ratio
Above 100%, homes sell over asking; below, buyers negotiate wins.
- Locust Grove98.99%
Zip codes with a Locust Grove address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Locust Grove — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.