Purcellville, Virginia.
Typical home $899,631 (+3.5% in a year), asking rent $3,062 . Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$2,610 (+124%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $30,395 +3%
- $869,236$899,631 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $192,921 +27%
- $706,710$899,631 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.
- Purcellville$4,722
- 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 Purcellville, VA rose 3.5% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Purcellville, Loudoun County, Virginia
Purcellville is a town of 8,929 people in Loudoun County. Half its households earn more than $165,121 a year and half less, against $181,765 across Loudoun County; 5% of its people live below the poverty line. 90% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 10% are rented. Unemployment in Loudoun County was 3.3% in August 2026, and the county had 3.4% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in professional services, then schools and health care.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Purcellville is a small town in Loudoun County where nearly everyone lives in a home they own. Household incomes sit a little below the county's, and fewer people live in poverty than you might expect, while typical home values and rents are high. The population is younger than in many towns of its size, and most adults hold a four-year degree. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month and frosty nights, while summer afternoons turn warm, and rain and melted snow add up to a fair amount over the year.
Work. Residents work mainly in professional and business services, in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, and in government. Within town, some of the larger workplaces are Patrick Henry College, the Giant grocery store and Beckstrom Electric. Commutes are fairly long, and a good number of people work from home. Unemployment in Loudoun County has held steady over the past year, and the county has added jobs.
Things to do. Bush Tabernacle is a park in or beside town. Segra Field, a stadium, is a short drive away. For a longer outing, Sky Meadows State Park is a protected area of open land, and the Shenandoah River is a river a longer drive away.
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- 2,875households
- 61%of adults have a degree
- 5%below the poverty line
- 33 mintypical commute
- 28%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Loudoun County had 204,941 jobs in 2025, 3.4% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 41° and lows near 24°; warmest in July, with highs near 86° and lows near 66°. About 44 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Purcellville weather station, under a mile away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Purcellville
- Beckstrom Electric, CoElectrical, electrical wiring, and low voltage electrical work155
- GiantGrocery stores148
- Harris Teeter Supermarkets, Inc.Supermarkets and other grocery stores141
- Patrick Henry CollegeUniversity or college69
- Pavement Design & Engineering ConsultantsCurbs and street gutters, highway, road and street, construction47
- PurcellvilleMail and parcel delivery38
- Valley Energy CompanyAlternative fuels, direct selling34
- Ranger Glass East CoastCurtain wall, glass, installation23
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 8 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 607 people in all. Colleges come from IPEDS (NCES, 2023–24). 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
- Winter weatherRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively moderate
- Heat wavesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Purcellville’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, very 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 Loudoun County and the Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV metro.
Purcellville home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Purcellville$899,631
- 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 Purcellville listings — the market is roughly in balance.
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.
- Purcellville33.36%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Purcellville65
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Purcellville23
Median sale price
What buyers actually paid — closed sales, not asking prices.
- Purcellville$886,903
- United States$370,717
Zip codes with a Purcellville address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Purcellville — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.