Schuyler, Virginia.
Typical home $289,505 (+1.9% in a year). Charlottesville, VA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$851 (+127%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $5,348 +2%
- $284,157$289,505 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $61,983 +27%
- $227,522$289,505 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.
- Schuyler$1,520
- 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 Schuyler, VA rose 1.9% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Schuyler, Albemarle County, Virginia
Schuyler, in Albemarle County, had 252 people in the 2020 census. Unemployment in Albemarle County was 3.3% in August 2026, and the county had 1.0% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Albemarle 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Schuyler is a very small community in Albemarle County, Virginia, with far fewer residents than most towns. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month, and summers turn hot by July. Rain and melted snow fall steadily through the year. The typical home here is worth well below what households across the county can afford, since county incomes run high.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, or in professional and business services, with others in shops, restaurants and hotels. Across Albemarle County, the biggest employers include Sentara Martha Jefferson Hospital, Albemarle County's fire and rescue service and Region Ten Community Services Board. Unemployment in the county is low and has held steady over the past year, and the number of jobs has grown slightly.
Things to do. A short drive brings you to the Rockfish River and to Naked Mountain Natural Area Preserve, a protected area for walking and quiet time outdoors. Crabtree Falls, a waterfall, is a longer drive away. For an evening in town, the Jefferson Theater is also a longer drive.
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What people in Albemarle County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Albemarle County had 65,494 jobs in 2025, 1.0% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 48° and lows near 26°; warmest in July, with highs near 87° and lows near 66°. About 46 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Tye River Southeast weather station, 17 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Albemarle County
- Sentara Martha Jefferson HospitalGeneral hospital1,130FTE
- Albemarle CountyFire and rescue service917
- Region Ten Community Services BoardSocial workers' , mental health, offices595
- Faulconer Construction CompanyUtility line, construction559
- Northrop Grumman SystemsSearch detection navigation guidance aeronautical and nautical system and instrument manufacturing450
- Piedmont Virginia Community CollegeTwo-year college443
- Wegmans Food MarketsRetail supermarkets423
- Albemarle High SchoolSchools, secondary344
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 114 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 15,300 people in all across the county; Schuyler has none of its own. Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023) and colleges from IPEDS (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
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- LightningRelatively 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 Schuyler’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 Albemarle County and the Charlottesville, VA metro.
Schuyler home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Schuyler$289,505
- 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.
- Schuyler8
Zip codes with a Schuyler address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Schuyler — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.