Stanley, Virginia.
Typical home $298,806 (+6.6% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$963 (+159%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $18,470 +7%
- $280,337$298,806 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $82,471 +38%
- $216,335$298,806 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.
- Stanley$1,568
- Virginia$2,164
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 11 years.
Typical home values in Stanley, VA rose 6.6% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Stanley, Page County, Virginia
Stanley is a town of 1,703 people in Page County. Half its households earn more than $54,301 a year and half less, against $57,037 across Page County; 14% of its people live below the poverty line. 60% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 40% are rented. Unemployment in Page County was 3.5% in August 2026, and the county had 0.3% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Page County work in schools and health care, then manufacturing.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Stanley is a small town in Page County, Virginia, in the Shenandoah Valley. Incomes here run a little below the county's, and a fair number of households live below the poverty line. Most homes are lived in by their owners, and relatively few adults have a four-year degree. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month, and summers are mild, with July the warmest.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, the building trades and retail also providing jobs. Across Page County, the largest workplaces include Page County Public Schools, Andersen Storm Door Division and Masonite Stanley. Commutes are fairly long, and almost no one works from home.
Things to do. Shenandoah National Park, a national park, is a short drive away, as is Skyline Drive, a tourist attraction. Luray Caverns, another tourist attraction, is also a short drive away. For a day on the water, Tims River is a short drive too.
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- 723households
- 10%of adults have a degree
- 14%below the poverty line
- 38 mintypical commute
- 1%work from home
What people in Page County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Page County had 5,535 jobs in 2025, 0.3% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 36° and lows near 19°; warmest in July, with highs near 75° and lows near 59°.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Big Meadows weather station, 5 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Page County
- Page County Public SchoolsSchool district571FTE
- Andersen Storm Door DivisionStorm doors and windows, metal, manufacturing219
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters214
- Masonite StanleyDoor jambs, wood, manufacturing200
- Delaware North CompaniesNature parks and other similar institutions131
- National Park ServiceFederal government · Department of the Interior124
- Page Memorial HospitalCritical access hospital123FTE
- Kontoor BrandsGeneral warehousing and storage116
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 14 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,342 people in all across the county; Stanley has one of its own. School districts come 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
- Strong windRelatively high
- DroughtRelatively moderate
- HurricanesRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively 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 Stanley’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 Page County.
Stanley home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Stanley$298,806
- 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 Stanley listings — 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.
- Stanley33.22%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Stanley31
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Stanley8
Zip codes with a Stanley address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Stanley — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.