Wintergreen, Virginia.
Typical home $444,236 (+2.4% in a year). Charlottesville, VA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,446 (+163%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $10,267 +2%
- $433,969$444,236 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $85,807 +24%
- $358,429$444,236 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.
- Wintergreen$2,332
- Virginia$2,164
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 16 years.
Typical home values in Wintergreen, VA rose 2.4% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Wintergreen, Nelson County, Virginia
Wintergreen, in Nelson County, had 346 people in the 2020 census. Unemployment in Nelson County was 3.2% in August 2026, and the county had 0.1% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Nelson County work in schools and health care, then professional services.
Written by AI Claude Sonnet 5.5 wrote this on 24 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Wintergreen is a very small community in Nelson County, Virginia, set in the Blue Ridge Mountains. Homes here are valued well above what is typical across the county, where household incomes are modest by comparison, so much of the housing reflects people who chose the mountains for a second home or a quieter way to live. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month, and summers are mild and warm, with July the warmest.
Work. Most residents who hold jobs work in schools, hospitals and social care, in professional and business services, in restaurants, hotels and entertainment, or in shops. Across Nelson County, the largest workplaces include Wintergreen Resort, Nelson County Public Schools and Food Lion. Unemployment across the county has held steady over the past year, and the number of jobs has barely moved.
Things to do. Wintergreen Resort, a ski area, is in or beside town. A short drive away, Crabtree Falls is a waterfall and Lesesne State Forest is a protected area for walking and quiet time outdoors. Farther afield, a longer drive brings you to the Tye River, a river good for a day by the water.
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What people in Nelson County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Nelson County had 3,980 jobs in 2025, 0.1% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 41° and lows near 20°; warmest in July, with highs near 83° and lows near 60°.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Montebello Fish Cultural Station weather station, 12 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Nelson County
- Wintergreen ResortSki lodges and resorts with accommodations644
- Nelson County Public SchoolsSchool district301FTE
- Food LionGrocery stores67
- Three Notch'd 151 - Beer, Bourbon and FoodFull service restaurants59
- Silver Creek OrchardsApple orchards31
- Bold Rock - NellysfordCider, alcoholic, manufacturing23
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 5 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 824 people in all across the county; Wintergreen has none of its own. School districts come 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
- Inland floodingVery high
- Strong windRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- HurricanesRelatively 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 Wintergreen’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively high. 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 Nelson County and the Charlottesville, VA metro.
Wintergreen home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Wintergreen$444,236
- Virginia$412,252
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 6 Wintergreen listings, and the typical home goes pending in 27 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.
- Wintergreen16.42%
- United States26.90%
Days to pending
How long the typical listing takes to go under contract.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Wintergreen81
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Wintergreen18
Median sale price
What buyers actually paid — closed sales, not asking prices.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Sale-to-list ratio
Above 100%, homes sell over asking; below, buyers negotiate wins.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a Wintergreen address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Wintergreen — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.