Staunton, Virginia.
Typical home $315,339 (+4.8% in a year), asking rent $1,473 (+3.7%). Staunton, VA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$908 (+121%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $14,448 +5%
- $300,891$315,339 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $75,657 +32%
- $239,683$315,339 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.
- Staunton$1,655
- 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 Staunton, VA rose 4.8% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Asking rents in Staunton, VA rose 3.7% over the past year — faster than the nation's +2.7%.
Owning the typical home in Staunton runs $644/mo more than renting one — the widest that gap has been in this data.
That is $2,117 a month against $1,473 rent: a $1,655 mortgage payment, plus $124 property tax and $338 insurance & upkeep.
Owning vs renting — Staunton
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$2,117
- Renting$1,473
- Mortgage only$1,655
Property tax · $124/mo 0.47% of value a year — the ACS 2020-2024 median bill over the median home value for Augusta County, VA
Insurance & upkeep · $338/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 Staunton, Augusta County, Virginia
Staunton is a city of 25,750 people in Augusta County. Half its households earn more than $65,581 a year and half less, against $82,049 across Augusta County; 12% of its people live below the poverty line. 61% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 39% are rented. Unemployment in Staunton was 2.9% in August 2026, and Augusta County had 4.6% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in schools and health care, then shops.
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. Staunton is a small city in the Shenandoah Valley, in Augusta County. Incomes here run below the county's as a whole, and rents and home prices are moderate, with more homes lived in by their owners than rented. Winters are cold, with a fair amount of snow, and summers are warm.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by shops, restaurants and hotels, and manufacturing. Among the largest workplaces in Staunton are Mary Baldwin University, Staunton City Public Schools and Walmart. Unemployment is low and slightly lower than a year ago, and the commute for most people is short.
Things to do. The Frontier Culture Museum of Virginia, a museum, and Gypsy Hill Park are both in or beside town. A short drive away, Christians Creek is a river good for a walk along its banks. For a longer outing, Crabtree Falls is a waterfall worth the drive.
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- 11,309households
- 38%of adults have a degree
- 12%below the poverty line
- 20 mintypical commute
- 9%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Augusta County had 31,235 jobs in 2025, 4.6% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 42° and lows near 25°; warmest in July, with highs near 84° and lows near 64°. About 22 inches of snow and 41 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Staunton Wtp weather station, a mile away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Staunton
- Mary Baldwin UniversityUniversity or college499
- Staunton City Public SchoolsSchool district453FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters340
- Fisher Auto PartsAutomotive parts and supply stores198
- FedExCourier and express delivery services181
- CadenceInstruments, mechanical microsurgical, manufacturing175
- Fisher Auto Parts - FAPWAutomotive parts, new, merchant wholesalers152
- Lowe's Companies, INCHomecenter148
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 25 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 2,590 people in all. Colleges come from IPEDS (NCES, 2023–24) and school districts from the Common Core of Data (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
- Strong windRelatively 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 Staunton’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 Augusta County and the Staunton, VA metro.
Staunton home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Staunton$315,339
- 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 4 Staunton listings, and the typical home goes pending in 10 days — the market is roughly in balance.
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.
- Staunton28.49%
- United States26.90%
Days to pending
How long the typical listing takes to go under contract.
- Staunton10
- United States27
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Staunton149
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Staunton57
Median sale price
What buyers actually paid — closed sales, not asking prices.
- Staunton$316,158
- United States$371,407
Sale-to-list ratio
Above 100%, homes sell over asking; below, buyers negotiate wins.
- Staunton99.66%
Zip codes with a Staunton address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Staunton — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.