Middletown, Virginia.
Typical home $450,238 (+2.5% in a year). Winchester, VA-WV metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,251 (+112%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $10,976 +2%
- $439,262$450,238 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $79,911 +22%
- $370,327$450,238 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.
- Middletown$2,363
- 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 Middletown, VA rose 2.5% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Middletown, Frederick County, Virginia
Middletown is a town of 1,355 people in Frederick County. Half its households earn more than $60,288 a year and half less, against $97,606 across Frederick County; 15% of its people live below the poverty line. 61% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 39% are rented. Unemployment in Frederick County was 3.4% in August 2026, and the county had 2.8% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Frederick County 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Middletown is a small town in Frederick County, Virginia, where a good share of residents live in homes they own, though fewer than across much of the county. Incomes run well below the county's, and more people live below the poverty line than most would expect in a small Virginia town. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month and a fair amount of snow, while summers are warm and the year brings plenty of rain.
Work. Residents work mainly in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by professional and business services, manufacturing and shops. Across Frederick County, some of the largest workplaces are Amazon, Trex and American Woodmark. The typical commute is fairly long, and few people work from home.
Things to do. Cedar Creek and Belle Grove National Historical Park is a protected area in or beside town, and Wayside Theatre is a theatre in the same spot. A short drive away, the Shenandoah River offers a place to be on the water, and Skyline Caverns is a tourist attraction for a family outing. Luray Caverns is another well-known cave attraction, though it is a longer drive.
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- 705households
- 21%of adults have a degree
- 15%below the poverty line
- 30 mintypical commute
- 8%work from home
What people in Frederick County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Frederick County had 38,290 jobs in 2025, 2.8% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 41° and lows near 21°; warmest in July, with highs near 85° and lows near 62°. About 25 inches of snow and 40 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Star Tannery weather station, 10 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Frederick County
- AmazonGeneral warehousing and storage952
- TrexWood - composite manufacturing934
- American WoodmarkCabinets, kitchen, stock or custom wood, manufacturing883
- Kraft Heinz Foods Company WinchesterBeverages, fruit and vegetable drinks, cocktails, and ades, manufacturing725
- HP HoodMilk, fluid, manufacturing627
- Laurel Ridge Community CollegeTwo-year college535
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters398
- Kohl's334
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 110 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 12,786 people in all across the county; Middletown has none of its own. Colleges come from IPEDS (NCES, 2023–24). 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
- Winter weatherRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Middletown’s 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 Frederick County and the Winchester, VA-WV metro.
Middletown home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Middletown$450,238
- 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 Middletown 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.
- Middletown36.37%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Middletown21
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Middletown7
Zip codes with a Middletown address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Middletown — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.