Mount Jackson, Virginia.
Typical home $322,120 (+2.6% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$990 (+141%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $8,297 +3%
- $313,823$322,120 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $77,737 +32%
- $244,383$322,120 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.
- Mount Jackson$1,691
- Virginia$2,164
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 13 years.
Typical home values in Mount Jackson, VA rose 2.6% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Mount Jackson, Shenandoah County, Virginia
Mount Jackson is a town of 1,961 people in Shenandoah County. 70% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 30% are rented. Unemployment in Shenandoah County was 3.6% in August 2026, and the county had 3.1% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in manufacturing, then schools and health care.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Mount Jackson is a small town in the Shenandoah Valley, and its people are younger than in many American towns. Most homes are lived in by their owners, though a good number of residents live below the poverty line, and only a small share of adults hold a four-year degree. Winters are cold, with a fair amount of snow, and summers are warm.
Work. Residents work mostly in manufacturing, in schools, hospitals and social care, in the building trades, and in transport, warehouses and utilities. Across Shenandoah County, some of the largest workplaces are Shentel, Shenandoah County Public Schools and Shenandoah Memorial Hospital. The county has lost some jobs over the past year, and the commute to work is fairly typical, with very few people working from home.
Things to do. Shenandoah Caverns, a tourist attraction, is in or beside town. A short drive away are New Market Battlefield State Historical Park, an archaeological site, and Bryce resort, a ski area. Shenandoah National Park and Skyline Drive are a longer drive away.
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- 825households
- 11%of adults have a degree
- 16%below the poverty line
- 24 mintypical commute
- 4%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Shenandoah County had 13,072 jobs in 2025, 3.1% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 42° and lows near 21°; warmest in July, with highs near 85° and lows near 62°. About 21 inches of snow and 37 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Edinburg weather station, 6 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Shenandoah County
- ShentelTelecommunications carriers, wired1,247
- Georges Chicken1,039
- Shenandoah County Public SchoolsSchool district992FTE
- Bowman Andros ProductsPastes, fruit and vegetable, canning310
- Shenandoah Memorial HospitalCritical access hospital290FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters256
- Mercury Paper - StrasburgToilet paper made from purchased paper233
- Cabinetworks Group Mt. JacksonWood kitchen cabinet and countertop mfg194
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 32 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 5,482 people in all across the county; Mount Jackson has two 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
- DroughtRelatively moderate
- HurricanesRelatively moderate
- HailRelatively 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 Mount Jackson’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 Shenandoah County.
Mount Jackson home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Mount Jackson$322,120
- Virginia$412,252
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 4 Mount Jackson 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.
- Mount Jackson24.53%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Mount Jackson40
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Mount Jackson10
Zip codes with a Mount Jackson address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Mount Jackson — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.