Madison, Virginia.
Typical home $392,938 (+3.1% in a year). Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,145 (+125%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $11,822 +3%
- $381,116$392,938 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $75,881 +24%
- $317,057$392,938 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$2,062
- 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 Madison, VA rose 3.1% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Madison, Madison County, Virginia
Madison is a town of 205 people in Madison County. Unemployment in Madison County was 3.0% in August 2026, and the county had 0.1% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Madison County 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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 is a very small town, one of the smallest places most people will ever call home. Winters are cold, with some snow, and summers turn warm, so the year has a clear shape. Most adults do not hold a four-year degree, and the typical drive to work is a long one.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, in professional and business services, and in the building trades. Across Madison County, the largest workplaces include Madison County Public Schools, Cardinal Home Center and Food Lion. Very few people work from home, and the number of jobs across the county has barely changed from a year ago.
Things to do. The best known place nearby is Shenandoah National Park, a longer drive away, with Skyline Drive, a tourist attraction, running through the same mountains. Luray Caverns is another tourist attraction a longer drive away. For time by the water, Rose River is a river a short drive away.
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- 15%of adults have a degree
- 33 mintypical commute
- 4%work from home
What people in Madison County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Madison County had 3,099 jobs in 2025, 0.1% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 45° and lows near 24°; warmest in July, with highs near 87° and lows near 65°. About 16 inches of snow and 45 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Somerset weather station, 9 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Madison County
- Madison County Public SchoolsSchool district308FTE
- Cardinal Home CenterHome centers, building materials135
- Madison Wood PreserversTreating wood products with creosote or other preservatives110
- Madison County WinesVineyard91
- Food LionGrocery stores74
- National Park ServiceFederal government · Department of the Interior72
- Duct-rite MechanicalHeating, ventilation and air-conditioning contractors35
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 5 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 445 people in all across the county; Madison has none of its own. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24) and federal offices from OPM's federal workforce data (2026); 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
- DroughtRelatively moderate
- HurricanesRelatively moderate
- HailRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively moderate
- Winter weatherRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Madison’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively 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 Madison County and the Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV metro.
Madison home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Madison$392,938
- Virginia$412,252
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 5 Madison 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.
- Madison19.82%
- United States26.36%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Madison21
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a Madison address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Madison — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.