Shenandoah Junction, West Virginia.
Typical home $455,974 (+7.5% in a year). Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,463 (+157%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $31,720 +7%
- $424,254$455,974 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $139,749 +44%
- $316,225$455,974 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.
- Shenandoah Junction$2,393
- West Virginia$927
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 9 years.
Typical home values in Shenandoah Junction, WV rose 7.5% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Shenandoah Junction, Jefferson County, West Virginia
Shenandoah Junction, in Jefferson County, had 635 people in the 2020 census. Unemployment in Jefferson County was 3.1% in August 2026, and the county had 0.3% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Jefferson 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Shenandoah Junction is a small community in Jefferson County, West Virginia, home to a young population, with residents who are younger on average than across much of the country. Home values here run high for the area, and household incomes across Jefferson County are well above what is typical in West Virginia. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month and highs staying above freezing only barely, while summers turn properly warm in July. Rain and melted snow fall steadily through the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with many others in professional and business services, shops, and restaurants, hotels and entertainment. Across Jefferson County, some of the largest workplaces are American Public University System, Jefferson County Schools and Hollywood Casino at Charles Town Races. Unemployment across the county has eased a little compared with a year earlier, and the number of jobs has been close to level.
Things to do. Harpers Ferry National Historical Park, a protected area, is a short drive away, as is Antietam National Battlefield, an archaeological site. Antietam Creek, a river, is also a short drive away and suits a quiet afternoon by the water. For a longer outing, Lake Holiday is a lake a longer drive away.
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What people in Jefferson County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Jefferson County had 17,136 jobs in 2025, 0.3% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 41° and lows near 21°; warmest in July, with highs near 86° and lows near 62°. About 43 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Sharpsburg South weather station, 7 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Jefferson County
- American Public University SystemUniversity or college2,224
- Jefferson County SchoolsSchool district1,249FTE
- Hollywood Casino at Charles Town RacesCasinos1,092
- Internal Revenue ServiceFederal government · Department of the Treasury533
- Shepherd UniversityUniversity or college464
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters359
- Jefferson Memorial HospitalCritical access hospital261FTE
- Summit Point Raceway AssociatesDriver training schools248
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 29 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 3,909 people in all across the county; Shenandoah Junction has none of its own. Colleges come from IPEDS (NCES, 2023–24), school districts from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24), federal offices from OPM's federal workforce data (2026) and hospitals 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
- DroughtRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively moderate
- Winter weatherRelatively moderate
- Inland floodingRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Shenandoah Junction’s census tracts, 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 Jefferson County and the Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV metro.
Shenandoah Junction home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Shenandoah Junction$455,974
- West Virginia$176,576
- 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.
Zip codes with a Shenandoah Junction address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Shenandoah Junction — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.