Penn Laird, Virginia.
Typical home $481,060 (+2.0% in a year). Harrisonburg, VA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,379 (+120%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $9,390 +2%
- $471,670$481,060 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $104,953 +28%
- $376,108$481,060 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.
- Penn Laird$2,525
- Virginia$2,164
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 14 years.
Typical home values in Penn Laird, VA rose 2.0% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Penn Laird, Rockingham County, Virginia
The Census does not count Penn Laird on its own, so the figures here are Rockingham County's. Half the county's households earn more than $80,693 a year and half less; 10% of the county's people live below the poverty line. 75% of the county's homes are lived in by their owners and 25% are rented. Unemployment in Rockingham County was 3.0% in August 2026, and the county had 0.5% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Rockingham 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Penn Laird is a town in Rockingham County in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia. Across Rockingham County, most homes are lived in by their owners, and a minority of people live below the poverty line. Winters are cold, with a fair amount of snow, and summers are warm and fairly wet.
Work. Unemployment across Rockingham County has stayed at a low level, though the county had slightly fewer jobs last year than the year before. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, manufacturing, shops, and restaurants, hotels and entertainment. Most people commute by car, and only a small share work from home.
Things to do. Shenandoah National Park is a national park a longer drive away, and Luray Caverns is a tourist attraction a longer drive away. Closer to town, Bridgeforth Stadium and Zane Showker Field is a stadium a short drive away, and North River is a river a short drive away.
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- 32,686households
- 40.1median age
- 29%of adults have a degree
- 10%below the poverty line
- 22 mintypical commute
- 9%work from home
What people in Rockingham County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Rockingham County had 34,938 jobs in 2025, 0.5% fewer 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, 9 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Rockingham County
- Sentara RMH Medical CenterGeneral hospital1,755FTE
- Merck and CoPharmaceutical preparations manufacturing1,329
- CargillTurkeys, processing, fresh, frozen, canned, or cooked1,097
- Marshalls Bridgewater MerchantsGeneral warehousing and storage1,095
- WalmartGeneral warehousing and storage920
- Shenandoah Valley OrganicPoultry771
- Pilgrim's Pride Broadway Central ProcessingPoultry slaughtering, dressing, and packing697
- VpgcChickens, processing, fresh, frozen, canned, or cooked560
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 84 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 17,421 people in all. Hospitals come 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
- Inland floodingRelatively moderate
- HurricanesRelatively moderate
- DroughtRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively moderate
- Winter weatherRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms across Rockingham 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 Rockingham County and the Harrisonburg, VA metro.
Penn Laird home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Penn Laird$481,060
- 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.
Market heat, inside the city limits
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Penn Laird10
Zip codes with a Penn Laird address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Penn Laird — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.