Middlebrook, Virginia.
Typical home $424,209 (+8.8% in a year). Staunton, VA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,145 (+106%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $34,416 +9%
- $389,793$424,209 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $78,263 +23%
- $345,946$424,209 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.
- Middlebrook$2,227
- Virginia$2,164
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 17 years.
Typical home values in Middlebrook, VA rose 8.8% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Middlebrook, Augusta County, Virginia
Middlebrook, in Augusta County, had 184 people in the 2020 census. Unemployment in Augusta County was 2.8% in August 2026, and the county had 4.6% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Augusta County work in schools and health care, then manufacturing.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Middlebrook is a very small community in Augusta County, Virginia, with far fewer residents than most towns and a population that skews well older than the rest of the country. Home values here run high, and household incomes across the county are comfortable. Winters are cold, with a fair amount of snow, and summers are warm, with rain and melted snow spread through the year.
Work. Residents who are in the workforce tend to work in schools, hospitals and social care, manufacturing, shops, and professional and business services. Across Augusta County, the largest workplaces include Augusta County Public Schools, Augusta Medical Center and The Hershey Company. Unemployment across the county is low and unchanged from a year ago, and the county has added jobs over the past year.
Things to do. A short drive away are Folly Mills Creek Fen Natural Area Preserve and Cowbane Prairie Natural Area Preserve, both protected areas, along with Christians Creek, a river. A longer drive brings you to Crabtree Falls, a waterfall, and the Frontier Culture Museum of Virginia.
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What people in Augusta County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Augusta County had 31,235 jobs in 2025, 4.6% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 42° and lows near 25°; warmest in July, with highs near 84° and lows near 64°. About 22 inches of snow and 41 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Staunton Wtp weather station, 11 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Augusta County
- Augusta County Public SchoolsSchool district1,642FTE
- Augusta Medical CenterGeneral hospital1,566FTE
- The Hershey CompanyConfectionery chocolate made from cacao beans1,550
- TargetDiscount department stores1,245
- AmazonGeneral warehousing and storage1,217
- McKee Foods Corporation Stuarts Draft FacilityCommercial bakeries970
- Daikin AppliedAir-conditioning equipment manufacturing739
- HollisterColostomy appliances manufacturing529
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 64 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 14,491 people in all across the county; Middlebrook has none of its own. 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
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- LandslidesRelatively moderate
- DroughtRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Middlebrook’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 Augusta County and the Staunton, VA metro.
Middlebrook home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Middlebrook$424,209
- Virginia$412,252
- United States$366,157
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.
Zip codes with a Middlebrook address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Middlebrook — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.
Zillow publishes no zip-level series with this city on the address.