Madison Heights, Virginia.
Typical home $246,543 (+0.8% in a year), asking rent $979 . Lynchburg, VA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$684 (+112%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $2,032 +1%
- $244,511$246,543 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $50,547 +26%
- $195,996$246,543 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.
- Madison Heights$1,294
- Virginia$2,164
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 15 years.
Typical home values in Madison Heights, VA rose 0.8% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Madison Heights, Amherst County, Virginia
Madison Heights, in Amherst County, had 10,893 people in the 2020 census. Half its households earn more than $60,215 a year and half less, against $68,724 across Amherst County; 10% of its people live below the poverty line. 71% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 29% are rented. Unemployment in Amherst County was 3.5% in August 2026, and the county had 4.1% 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Madison Heights is a community in Amherst County, Virginia, with a population that skews somewhat older than much of the country. Most homes are lived in by their owners, and incomes run below the county's as a whole. The winters are cool, coldest in January, and the summers turn warm, warmest in July, with some snow in winter and a fair amount of rain through the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, in manufacturing, and in professional and business services. Walmart, CSE and Food Lion are among the largest workplaces in Madison Heights. Across Amherst County, there were fewer jobs last year than the year before, and a four-year degree is held by fewer adults here than is common elsewhere.
Things to do. A short drive away, Williams Stadium is a place to catch a game, and the Maier Museum of Art at Randolph College is an art museum. The Anne Spencer House, also a short drive away, is a museum tied to local history. A longer drive brings you to Crabtree Falls, a waterfall, and to Appomattox Court House National Historical Park, a protected area with a place in the nation's past.
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- 4,644households
- 17%of adults have a degree
- 10%below the poverty line
- 24 mintypical commute
- 9%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Amherst County had 7,835 jobs in 2025, 4.1% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 46° and lows near 24°; warmest in July, with highs near 85° and lows near 64°. About 12 inches of snow and 44 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Lynchburg #2 weather station, 8 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Madison Heights
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters269
- CSESteel erectors crane rental186
- Food LionGrocery stores88
- Johnson Health CenterCommunity health centers and clinics, outpatient79
- Johnson Health Center AdministrationCommunity health centers and clinics, outpatient58
- Madison HeightsMail and parcel delivery27
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 6 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 707 people in all. 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 in parts of Madison HeightsRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Madison Heights’ 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 Amherst County and the Lynchburg, VA metro.
Madison Heights home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Madison Heights$246,543
- 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 Madison Heights 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.
- Madison Heights26.28%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Madison Heights70
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Madison Heights24
Zip codes with a Madison Heights address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Madison Heights — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.