Springfield, Virginia.
Typical home $694,634 (+1.3% in a year), asking rent $3,052 (+5.1%). Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,757 (+93%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $8,750 +1%
- $685,883$694,634 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $98,576 +17%
- $596,058$694,634 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.
- Springfield$3,646
- Virginia$2,164
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 23 years.
Typical home values in Springfield, VA rose 1.3% over the past year — in step with the nation.
Asking rents in Springfield, VA rose 5.1% over the past year — faster than the nation's +2.7%.
Owning the typical home in Springfield runs $1,919/mo more than renting one. The gap peaked at $2,240 in Jan 2025.
That is $4,972 a month against $3,052 rent: a $3,646 mortgage payment, plus $582 property tax and $744 insurance & upkeep.
Owning vs renting — Springfield
The owning line is the typical home's monthly payment at that month's rate, plus property tax and insurance & upkeep; the renting line is the typical asking rent; the grey line is the mortgage payment on its own. Same homes, same months, both ways of paying for a roof.
- Owning all in$4,972
- Renting$3,052
- Mortgage only$3,646
Property tax · $582/mo 1.01% of value a year — the ACS 2020-2024 median bill over the median home value for Fairfax County, VA
Insurance & upkeep · $744/mo insurance, maintenance and repairs together, from the BLS Consumer Expenditure Survey — the national figure for mortgaged homeowners, scaled to this market's home value. BLS publishes the three bundled and they cannot be split.
Both are priced off the same month's home value, so they rise with the market. Neither is a quote — a specific home's bill depends on its assessment, its age and its insurer.
Living in Springfield, Fairfax County, Virginia
Springfield, in Fairfax County, had 31,339 people in the 2020 census. Half its households earn more than $125,999 a year and half less, against $153,637 across Fairfax County; 9% of its people live below the poverty line. 66% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 34% are rented. Unemployment in Fairfax County was 3.3% in August 2026, and the county had 0.3% fewer 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. Springfield is a community in Fairfax County, in the Washington suburbs of northern Virginia. Residents are a little older than the typical American, and a majority of homes are lived in by their owners, though renters are a real part of the town too. Incomes run below the county's, which is among the more affluent in the country, and a large share of adults hold a four-year degree. Winters are cold and summers are hot, with some snow each year and rain spread fairly evenly through the seasons.
Work. Many residents work in professional and business services, in schools, hospitals and social care, in government, and in shops. Commutes are long, and a good number of people work from home. Among the largest workplaces in Springfield are Fairfax County Public Schools, the Transportation Security Administration and Amazon.
Things to do. The museums and monuments of Washington are a longer drive away, and they are the main draw for a day out. The National Mall is a long public park lined with memorials and museums, and the Smithsonian Institution and the National Air and Space Museum are among the best known of those museums. The Washington Monument stands on the Mall as one of the city's most recognizable landmarks.
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- 10,399households
- 47%of adults have a degree
- 9%below the poverty line
- 29 mintypical commute
- 18%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Fairfax County had 634,638 jobs in 2025, 0.3% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 45° and lows near 30°; warmest in July, with highs near 90° and lows near 72°. About 14 inches of snow and 42 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Washington Reagan Airport weather station, 9 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Springfield
- Fairfax County Public SchoolsCafeteria food services contractors1,706
- Transportation Security AdministrationFederal government · Department of Homeland Security1,447
- DHS HeadquartersFederal government · Department of Homeland Security945
- Erickson LivingCcrc721
- AmazonGeneral warehousing and storage475
- Prime NowGeneral warehousing and storage432
- Bowhead Marine Support ServicesMaintenance services, waterfront terminal296
- TargetDiscount department stores228
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 29 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 5,464 people in all. Federal offices come from OPM's federal workforce data (2026). 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 high in parts of SpringfieldRelatively moderate
- Lightningrelatively high in parts of SpringfieldRelatively moderate
- Heat wavesRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Springfield’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 Fairfax County and the Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV metro.
Springfield home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Springfield$694,634
- 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 Springfield listings, and the typical home goes pending in 12 days — the market is cooling.
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.
- Springfield30.24%
- United States26.90%
Days to pending
How long the typical listing takes to go under contract.
- Springfield12
- United States27
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Springfield207
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Springfield97
Median sale price
What buyers actually paid — closed sales, not asking prices.
- Springfield$710,805
- United States$371,407
Sale-to-list ratio
Above 100%, homes sell over asking; below, buyers negotiate wins.
- Springfield100.57%
Zip codes with a Springfield address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Springfield — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.
Zip codes in Springfield
| Zip activate to sort by Zip | Place activate to sort by Place | Population sorted descending, activate to sort ascending | Rent activate to sort by Rent | Home value activate to sort by Home value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 22153 | Springfield | 32,664 | $3,114 | $740,679 |
| 22152 | Springfield | 28,814 | $3,186 | $676,192 |
| 22150 | Springfield | 27,955 | $2,564 | $660,626 |
| 22151 | Springfield | 17,017 | $3,229 | $698,582 |