Orange, Virginia.
Typical home $338,074 (+1.7% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$990 (+126%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $5,686 +2%
- $332,387$338,074 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $66,408 +24%
- $271,665$338,074 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.
- Orange$1,774
- Virginia$2,164
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 16 years.
Typical home values in Orange, VA rose 1.7% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Orange, Orange County, Virginia
Orange is a town of 4,880 people in Orange County. Unemployment in Orange County was 3.5% in August 2026, and the county had 1.9% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in schools and health care, then restaurants and hotels.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Orange is a small town in Virginia's Piedmont, and its homes are priced a little below what many buyers pay in other parts of the state. Winters are cold, with some snow each year, and summers turn properly warm. Most adults do not hold a four-year degree, and a good share of households live on modest incomes.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, and in restaurants, hotels and entertainment, with shops and manufacturing close behind. Among the biggest workplaces in the town are Orange County Public Schools, Dogwood Village H&R and Food Lion. Getting to work usually means a short drive, and few people work from home. The county has recently lost a few jobs, though unemployment there has stayed low and steady.
Things to do. The Exchange Hotel is a museum a short drive away, and the North Anna River is also close by for time on the water. For a longer day out, Shenandoah National Park and Skyline Drive are a longer drive away, and together make a classic mountain outing.
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- 1,943households
- 21%of adults have a degree
- 14%below the poverty line
- 20 mintypical commute
- 11%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Orange County had 9,409 jobs in 2025, 1.9% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 44° and lows near 25°; warmest in July, with highs near 86° and lows near 67°. About 16 inches of snow and 44 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Piedmont Rsch Station weather station, a mile away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Orange
- Orange County Public SchoolsSchool district765FTE
- Dogwood Village H&RNursing homes251
- Food LionGrocery stores79
- Dogwood Village SLAssisted-living facilities without on-site nursing care facilities51
- OrangeMail and parcel delivery21
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 4 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 402 people in all. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24); 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
- DroughtRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- HurricanesRelatively moderate
- EarthquakesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Orange’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 Orange County.
Orange home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Orange$338,074
- 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 Orange listings — the market is cooling.
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.
- Orange29.79%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Orange69
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Orange13
Zip codes with a Orange address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Orange — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.