Luray, Virginia.
Typical home $323,387 (+4.5% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,001 (+144%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $13,940 +5%
- $309,447$323,387 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $73,958 +30%
- $249,428$323,387 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.
- Luray$1,697
- 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 Luray, VA rose 4.5% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Luray, Page County, Virginia
Luray is a town of 4,831 people in Page County. Half its households earn more than $50,150 a year and half less, against $57,037 across Page County; 12% of its people live below the poverty line. 65% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 35% are rented. Unemployment in Page County was 3.5% in August 2026, and the county had 0.3% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in schools and health care, then shops.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Luray is a small town in Page County, Virginia, where most homes are lived in by their owners. Household incomes run below the county's, and typical home values sit well above what those incomes might suggest. Winters are cold, with some snow, and summers are warm.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, in manufacturing, and in restaurants, hotels and entertainment. Among the largest workplaces in Luray are Page County Public Schools, Andersen Storm Door Division and Page Memorial Hospital. Commutes are fairly typical, and some residents work from home.
Things to do. Luray Caverns is a well-known tourist attraction in or beside town. Skyline Drive is a short drive away, and Shenandoah National Park, the larger national park it runs through, is a longer drive. The Shenandoah River is also a longer drive away for time on the water.
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- 2,323households
- 18%of adults have a degree
- 12%below the poverty line
- 26 mintypical commute
- 10%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Page County had 5,535 jobs in 2025, 0.3% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 43° and lows near 23°; warmest in July, with highs near 85° and lows near 62°. About 19 inches of snow and 44 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Luray East weather station, 4 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Luray
- Page County Public SchoolsSchool district571FTE
- Andersen Storm Door DivisionStorm doors and windows, metal, manufacturing219
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters214
- Delaware North CompaniesNature parks and other similar institutions131
- Page Memorial HospitalCritical access hospital123FTE
- Kontoor BrandsGeneral warehousing and storage116
- Food LionGrocery stores62
- Hawksbill Assisted LivingAssisted-living facilities without on-site nursing care facilities27
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 9 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 997 people in all. 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
- Strong windRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- DroughtRelatively moderate
- HurricanesRelatively moderate
- HailRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Luray’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 Page County.
Luray home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Luray$323,387
- 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 4 Luray listings — 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.
- Luray23.10%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Luray64
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Luray22
Zip codes with a Luray address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Luray — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.