Port Republic, Virginia.
Typical home $409,458 (+5.2% in a year). Harrisonburg, VA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,195 (+125%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $20,296 +5%
- $389,163$409,458 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $93,201 +29%
- $316,257$409,458 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.
- Port Republic$2,149
- 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 Port Republic, VA rose 5.2% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Port Republic, Rockingham County, Virginia
Port Republic, in Rockingham County, had 408 people in the 2020 census. 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 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Port Republic is a very small community in Rockingham County, Virginia, and it has the feel of one: a close-knit place where people are likely to know one another. Homes here are typically valued well above what many parts of the country see. Incomes across the county are comfortable, and no one in town is recorded as living below the poverty line. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month, and snow comes most winters. Summers are warm, July is the hottest month, and rain and melted snow fall steadily through the year.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, with others in manufacturing, shops, and restaurants and hotels. Across Rockingham County, some of the largest workplaces are Sentara RMH Medical Center, Merck and Co, and Cargill. Unemployment across the county is low and has held steady over the past year, though the county has seen slightly fewer jobs than the year before. A typical commute is a moderate one, so most people work fairly close to home.
Things to do. Grand Caverns, a protected area in or beside town, is the best known place nearby, and the Middle River also runs close to town. The Port Republic Historic District, an archaeological site right in town, is a good spot for anyone who likes local history. For a bigger day out, Skyline Drive is a well-known tourist attraction a longer drive away.
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- 0%below the poverty line
- 22 mintypical commute
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, 14 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 across the county; Port Republic has none of its own. 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
- LightningRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- DroughtRelatively moderate
- Heat wavesRelatively 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 Port Republic’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 Rockingham County and the Harrisonburg, VA metro.
Port Republic home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Port Republic$409,458
- 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 Port Republic address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Port Republic — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.