Manassas, Virginia.
Typical home $547,070 (+0.8% in a year), asking rent $2,135 (+2.1%). Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,499 (+109%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $4,410 +1%
- $542,659$547,070 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $96,239 +21%
- $450,831$547,070 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.
- Manassas$2,871
- Virginia$2,164
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 18 years.
Typical home values in Manassas, VA rose 0.8% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Asking rents in Manassas, VA rose 2.1% over the past year — slower than the nation's +2.7%.
Owning the typical home in Manassas runs $1,752/mo more than renting one. The gap peaked at $1,878 in Jan 2025.
That is $3,887 a month against $2,135 rent: a $2,871 mortgage payment, plus $430 property tax and $586 insurance & upkeep.
Owning vs renting — Manassas
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$3,887
- Renting$2,135
- Mortgage only$2,871
Property tax · $430/mo 0.94% of value a year — the ACS 2020-2024 median bill over the median home value for Prince William County, VA
Insurance & upkeep · $586/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 Manassas, Prince William County, Virginia
Manassas is a city of 42,772 people in Prince William County. Half its households earn more than $113,590 a year and half less, against $131,402 across Prince William County; 8% of its people live below the poverty line. 72% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 28% are rented. Unemployment in Manassas was 3.1% in August 2026, and Prince William County had 2.0% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in schools and health care, then professional services.
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. Manassas is a city in Prince William County, with a population younger than many older Virginia communities. Household incomes run below the county's, and more households here rent than across much of the county, though most homes are still lived in by their owners. Adults with a four-year degree are a sizeable part of the town, and the winters are cold while July is the warmest month.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, in professional and business services, in the building trades, or in shops. Among the biggest workplaces in Manassas are Manassas City Public Schools, UVA Health Prince William Medical and Aurora Flight Sciences Virginia. The commute is a long one, and a good number of people work from home.
Things to do. The best-known places nearby are a longer drive away, but they make a good day out. The National Mall is a park lined with monuments, the Smithsonian Institution runs a group of museums, and the Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center is an aviation museum. Each of these is a longer drive away.
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- 14,203households
- 33%of adults have a degree
- 8%below the poverty line
- 32 mintypical commute
- 12%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Prince William County had 146,171 jobs in 2025, 2.0% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 42° and lows near 24°; warmest in July, with highs near 88° and lows near 69°.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Manassas weather station, a mile away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Manassas
- Manassas City Public SchoolsSchool district1,163FTE
- UVA Health Prince William MedicalGeneral hospital791FTE
- Aurora Flight Sciences VirginiaAircraft manufacturing456
- BAE SystemsFilters, electronic component-type, manufacturing250
- Harris Teeter Supermarkets, Inc.Supermarkets and other grocery stores117
- Compass Group105
- GiantGrocery stores101
- ManassasMail and parcel delivery98
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 32 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 5,510 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
- LightningRelatively high
- Winter weatherrelatively high in parts of ManassasRelatively moderate
- Heat wavesrelatively high in parts of ManassasRelatively moderate
- Inland floodingRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Manassas’ 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 Prince William County and the Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV metro.
Manassas home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Manassas$547,070
- 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 Manassas listings, and the typical home goes pending in 15 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.
- Manassas29.92%
- United States26.90%
Days to pending
How long the typical listing takes to go under contract.
- Manassas15
- United States27
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Manassas316
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Manassas137
Median sale price
What buyers actually paid — closed sales, not asking prices.
- Manassas$538,703
- United States$371,407
Sale-to-list ratio
Above 100%, homes sell over asking; below, buyers negotiate wins.
- Manassas100.37%
Zip codes with a Manassas address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Manassas — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.
Zip codes in Manassas
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 20110 | Manassas | 49,890 | $2,178 | $504,628 |
| 20109 | Manassas | 45,444 | $2,098 | $448,903 |
| 20111 | Manassas | 38,124 | $2,174 | $514,550 |
| 20112 | Manassas | 30,500 | $3,472 | $734,448 |