Mount Sidney, Virginia.
Typical home $412,621 (+7.3% in a year). Staunton, VA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,144 (+112%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $28,210 +7%
- $384,411$412,621 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $86,495 +27%
- $326,126$412,621 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 Sidney$2,166
- Virginia$2,164
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 15 years.
Typical home values in Mount Sidney, VA rose 7.3% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Mount Sidney, Augusta County, Virginia
Mount Sidney, in Augusta County, had 678 people in the 2020 census. Half its households earn more than $93,050 a year and half less, against $82,049 across Augusta County; 6% of its people live below the poverty line. 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Mount Sidney is a very small community in Augusta County, Virginia, with households that earn more than the county's typical household and a small share living below the poverty line. Homes here are valued well above what many people expect for a rural Valley community. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month, and the town sees a fair amount of snow, while summers turn warm and July is the warmest stretch.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, shops and professional and business services also employing a good number. 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 earlier, and the county has gained jobs over the past year. Commutes are fairly typical for the region, and only a few people work from home.
Things to do. Grand Caverns, a protected cave area, is a short drive away, as is the Frontier Culture Museum of Virginia, which is a good place for an afternoon indoors and out. The North River is also a short drive away for anyone who likes to be near water. For a longer day out, Crabtree Falls is a waterfall a longer drive away.
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- 6%below the poverty line
- 24 mintypical commute
- 4%work from home
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, 8 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; Mount Sidney 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
- LightningRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- DroughtRelatively moderate
- HailRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Mount Sidney’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.
Mount Sidney home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Mount Sidney$412,621
- 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.
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 Mount Sidney address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Mount Sidney — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.