Mount Solon, Virginia.
Typical home $376,854 (+7.8% in a year). Staunton, VA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,036 (+110%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $27,145 +8%
- $349,708$376,854 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $79,928 +27%
- $296,925$376,854 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 Solon$1,978
- 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 Solon, VA rose 7.8% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Mount Solon, Augusta County, Virginia
The Census does not count Mount Solon on its own, so the figures here are Augusta County's. Half the county's households earn more than $82,049 a year and half less; 7% of the county's people live below the poverty line. 80% of the county's homes are lived in by their owners and 20% are rented. 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 Haiku 5.5 wrote this on 22 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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 Solon is a small place in Augusta County, Virginia, in the Shenandoah Valley. Winters are cold and often bring snow, while summers are warm, and rain falls through much of the year. Across Augusta County, most homes are lived in by their owners, and the county's residents are older on average than many across the country.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, or in manufacturing, retail, and professional and business services. Jobs in the county grew over the past year, and unemployment has stayed low and steady. Most people make a drive to get to work, and working from home is less common here than in many places.
Things to do. The George Washington and Jefferson National Forests, a protected area, are a longer drive away and offer wide stretches of woods to explore. Grand Caverns, also a protected area, lies a longer drive off and is a good choice for a day out. Dry River, a river a short drive away, makes a quiet spot to spend an afternoon outdoors.
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- 31,083households
- 45.1median age
- 25%of adults have a degree
- 7%below the poverty line
- 24 mintypical commute
- 7%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 23°; warmest in July, with highs near 86° and lows near 64°. About 19 inches of snow and 39 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Dale Enterprise weather station, 14 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. 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
- LandslidesRelatively moderate
- HailRelatively moderate
- Inland floodingRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively moderate
- Winter weatherRelatively moderate
- DroughtRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms across Augusta County, 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 Augusta County and the Staunton, VA metro.
Mount Solon home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Mount Solon$376,854
- 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.
Market heat, inside the city limits
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a Mount Solon address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Mount Solon — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.