Stuarts Draft, Virginia.
Typical home $360,066 (+5.8% in a year). Staunton, VA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,005 (+114%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $19,664 +6%
- $340,403$360,066 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $80,869 +29%
- $279,198$360,066 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.
- Stuarts Draft$1,890
- 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 Stuarts Draft, VA rose 5.8% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Stuarts Draft, Augusta County, Virginia
Stuarts Draft, in Augusta County, had 12,142 people in the 2020 census. Half its households earn more than $79,332 a year and half less, against $82,049 across Augusta County; 7% of its people live below the poverty line. 78% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 22% are rented. Unemployment in Augusta County was 2.8% in August 2026, and the county had 4.6% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in manufacturing, 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Stuarts Draft is a community in Augusta County, Virginia, with an older population than much of the country. Most homes are lived in by their owners, and household incomes run a little below the county's. Winters are cold, summers are warm, and the year brings a fair amount of rain and melted snow.
Work. Many residents work in manufacturing, in schools, hospitals and social care, in professional and business services, and in the building trades. Some of the largest workplaces in Stuarts Draft are the McKee Foods bakery facility, Hollister and Nibco. Commutes are fairly short, and few people work from home.
Things to do. The South River and Cowbane Prairie Natural Area Preserve are in or beside town, for walking and time outdoors. A short drive away are the Frontier Culture Museum of Virginia and Wintergreen Resort, a ski area. Crabtree Falls, a waterfall, is a longer drive away.
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- 5,076households
- 22%of adults have a degree
- 7%below the poverty line
- 20 mintypical commute
- 7%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 44° and lows near 23°; warmest in July, with highs near 86° and lows near 63°. About 45 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Waynesboro Wtp weather station, 10 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Stuarts Draft
- McKee Foods Corporation Stuarts Draft FacilityCommercial bakeries970
- HollisterColostomy appliances manufacturing529
- NibcoCopper forgings made from purchased metals, unfinished498
- Mastic Home ExteriorsBuilding panels, corrugated and flat, plastics, manufacturing300
- McKee Foods TransportationGeneral freight trucking, long-distance, truckload161
- Food LionGrocery stores88
- Regal RexnordDrives, high-speed industrial, manufacturing68
- DraftcoMachine shops47
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 10 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 2,708 people in all. 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 high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- HailRelatively 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 Stuarts Draft’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.
Stuarts Draft home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Stuarts Draft$360,066
- 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 Stuarts Draft 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.
- Stuarts Draft28.91%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Stuarts Draft30
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Stuarts Draft10
Zip codes with a Stuarts Draft address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Stuarts Draft — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.