The story of this market
The typical home in Orange County, Virginia sells for about $418,294, or $212 per square foot.
Prices are up +2.5% from a year ago, so sellers still have some momentum. Homes take about 59 days to sell. Over the long run, values in this county have grown 144% since 2000. Last year 6 of 8 neighborhoods saw prices rise, so the story isn't the same street to street. The biggest natural hazard here is drought, which FEMA rates relatively high. HUD's fair market rent for a two-bedroom is $1,262 a month.
HUD sets the fair market rent for a 2-bedroom at $1,262 a month. FEMA's National Risk Index rates overall hazard risk here as Relatively Low.
Price climate
Every year of price change, 2000–2025
+3%
2025
Each stripe is one year's median price change across the area's census tracts (FHFA repeat-sales index). Deep blue is a strong gain year, red a falling year. Best: 2005 (+27%). Worst: 2009 (-12.5%). Hover to read a year.
Monthly price momentum
Home values since 2015
+2.6%
VA · past 12 months
Freddie Mac House Price Index, single-family homes, monthly through 2026-08. Each line starts at 100 in January 2015, so a reading of 180 means prices are up 80% since then.
Rent benchmark
Fair market rent by size
$1,747
3-bed / month
HUD Fair Market Rents, fiscal 2027, for this county. A typical rent for a modest unit, used to set housing-voucher payments.
Neighborhood price trend
Long-run price trend, 2000–2025
+3%
2025 change
FHFA repeat-sales index, median of 8 census tracts in this county (2000 = 100). Bars are each year's median change.
Natural hazard exposure
The area's risk shape
44
Relatively Low
FEMA National Risk Index. Each spoke is a hazard ranked nationally, where 100 is the most exposed. Expected annual loss: $11,126,505.
Mortgage activity
Home lending in this county
75.9%
2018 approval rate
| Year | Applications | Loans made | Approval | Investor share | Median home value |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | 2377 | 1171 | 75.9% | 2.3% | $235,000 |
CFPB Home Mortgage Disclosure Act records: every mortgage application reported by lenders for homes in this county. Approval rate is approved ÷ decided (withdrawn and incomplete files excluded). Investor share and home value are the median census tract.
Orange County, Virginia
The Orange County housing market is experiencing modest price appreciation alongside a slight increase in inventory. While sales volume has improved year-over-year, the market remains sensitive to broader economic conditions and affordability constraints.
No ARED distress-ledger coverage for this county yet — the foreclosure ingest rotates the national county directory, and filings appear here once the county's posted notices are read. Key-figure check: no independent anchor retained yet — first-researched cycles establish the anchor baseline this pass.
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Median prices moved down 6.4% year over year.
Homes spend a median of 470 days on market with 0.0 months of supply — a slower-moving market.
0% of listings have cut prices · homes sell at 0.98% of asking — demand is holding steady.
no recorded foreclosure-ledger notices (0.0 per 10,000 residents) · unemployment 3.2% · poverty 7.8% — a stable, low-distress profile.
ACS 2024 5-year estimates. Aggregate published statistics for this county — never individual records, and never an attribute of any individual property or resident.
Deterministic aggregate of 4 researched ZIP reports of 5 — sales_count-weighted (population fallback); per point, children lacking the value or its weight are excluded. Tax rates, sentiment and context notes are tier-native and never roll.
Orange County, Virginia — researched county-level history with a deterministic 1 / 3 / 5-year projection
Solid: researched ten-year history · dotted: 1 / 3 / 5-year projection extended from the historical 6.7%/yr trend — a deterministic estimate, not a published forecast or guarantee.
No researched properties in this county yet — the property base layer populates as property research runs, and each property feeds its ZIP's roll-up.
researched Sep 16
researched Sep 17
researched Sep 20
researched Sep 16
researched Sep 16
| 22508 | Locust Grove | $409,000 | $205 | -6.5% | 474 | — | — | — | 1 | $1,796 | researched Sep 16 |
| 22711 | Banco | $595,000 | $265 | +3% | 55 | 98.5% | — | — | 4 | $1,850 | researched Sep 17 |
| 22723 | Hood | $425,000 | $215 | +3.2% | 48 | 98.5% | 15% | 3 | 12 | $1,850 | researched Sep 20 |
| 22942 | Gordonsville | $550,000 | — | 0% | 26 | — | — | — | 1 | $1,304 | researched Sep 16 |
| 22960 | Orange | $429,000 | $246 | -2% | 45 | 98.5% | 12% | 4.2 | 95 | $1,081 | researched Sep 16 |
Figures are each ZIP report's own latest research — the county roll-up aggregates them sales_count-weighted (population fallback); ZIPs cycle quarterly.
Property tax assessments are managed by the Orange County Assessment Department with billing based on the most recent January 1 assessment cycle.
The Orange County Assessment Department maintains property records and assessment data for the county.
Data retrieved from data.census.gov county-level tables.