Saluda, Virginia.
Typical home $326,952 (+2.3% in a year). Virginia Beach-Norfolk-Newport News, VA-NC metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$958 (+126%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $7,276 +2%
- $319,676$326,952 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $74,260 +29%
- $252,692$326,952 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.
- Saluda$1,716
- 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 Saluda, VA rose 2.3% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Saluda, Middlesex County, Virginia
Saluda, in Middlesex County, had 627 people in the 2020 census. Unemployment in Middlesex County was 3.4% in August 2026, and the county had 4.5% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Middlesex County work in schools and health care, then professional services.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Saluda is a very small community and the seat of Middlesex County, on the Middle Peninsula of Virginia. Incomes in Middlesex County sit a little above the median for the state's rural counties, and relatively few residents live below the poverty line. Winters are cool, with a January that stays well above the coldest in the country, and a few light snowfalls each year. Summers are hot, with July the warmest month, and rain is steady through the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with professional and business services, shops and the building trades also employing many. Among the largest workplaces in Saluda are the Middle Peninsula Northern Neck Community Services Board, Riverside Convalescent Center Saluda and the Virginia Department of Transportation. Unemployment in the county is low and little changed from a year earlier, though the county had fewer jobs last year than the year before.
Things to do. Lagrange Creek is a short drive away, a quiet waterway for those who enjoy time near the water. Farther afield, Colonial Williamsburg is a museum of eighteenth-century Virginia life and a longer drive away. Belle Isle State Park, a protected area on the Rappahannock River, is also a longer drive and suits a day outdoors.
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- 6%below the poverty line
What people in Middlesex County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Middlesex County had 3,238 jobs in 2025, 4.5% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 49° and lows near 28°; warmest in July, with highs near 90° and lows near 68°. About 10 inches of snow and 48 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the West Pt Northwest weather station, 12 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Saluda
- Middle Peninsula Northern Neck Community Services BoardGroup homes, intellectual and developmental disability335
- Riverside Convalescent Center SaludaConvalescent homes or convalescent hospitals67
- Virginia Department of TransportationHighway repair maintenance28
- Virginia Department of TransportationAdministration24
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 4 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 454 people in all. 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
- HurricanesRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- DroughtRelatively moderate
- Coastal floodingRelatively moderate
- Ice stormsRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Saluda’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 Middlesex County and the Virginia Beach-Norfolk-Newport News, VA-NC metro.
Saluda home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Saluda$326,952
- 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.
- Saluda10
Zip codes with a Saluda address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Saluda — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.