Rent, home values, family budgets, pay and taxes for the Washington metro area, county by county.
Across the 25 counties in the metro with their own Zillow home value, the median typical home is worth $544,161. Values changed +1.2% over the past year and +20.0% over five years at the median county. A typical home costs 4.12 years of median family income at the median county.
With 10% down at 7.03%, the average 30-year rate on September 24, 2026, that home costs about $4,215 a month with tax, insurance and mortgage insurance, which takes $180,631 a year of income under the usual 28% guideline. The median family can afford its own county's typical home in none of the 25 counties, against 44.9% of counties nationally. Try it with your own income.
The most expensive counties in the metro are Falls Church city, VA ($1,173,901), Arlington County, VA ($816,055) and Loudoun County, VA ($799,573); the least expensive are Warren County, VA ($401,011), Jefferson County, WV ($401,792) and Madison County, VA ($430,067).
The Economic Policy Institute prices what a modest but adequate standard of living costs in every county. In the median county of the metro, that comes to $69,543 a year for one adult and $134,978 for two adults and two children, of which $27,294 is childcare, against national averages of $47,367 and $101,771. Median family income is $140,657 in the median county.
Prices across District of Columbia as a whole run 9.9% above the national average and rents 55.0% above the national average, by the Bureau of Economic Analysis's state measure. Median pay across all jobs in the state is $91,540 a year. District of Columbia's top income tax rate on wages is 10.75%. These are statewide figures, not measured for the metro itself. The metro spans parts of Virginia, Maryland, District of Columbia and West Virginia. Compare a salary with another state or work out take-home pay.
| Alexandria city, VA | $682,629 | +1.5% | $2,278 | $153,506 | $175,142 |
| Arlington County, VA | $816,055 | +0.1% | $2,729 | $194,878 | $191,525 |
| Calvert County, MD | $488,965 | +1.4% | $2,430 | $150,587 | $137,457 |
| Charles County, MD | $451,805 | −1.2% | $2,395 | $135,570 | $137,605 |
| Clarke County, VA | $574,223 | +3.4% | — | $135,417 | $115,922 |
| Culpeper County, VA | $496,737 | +2.9% | $1,833 | $106,515 | $112,570 |
| District of Columbia, DC | $577,055 | −1.7% | $2,529 | $150,381 | $174,806 |
| Fairfax city, VA | $785,295 | +2.4% | $2,624 | $167,182 | $156,087 |
| Fairfax County, VA | $768,424 | +0.1% | $2,564 | $178,683 | $159,130 |
| Falls Church city, VA | $1,173,901 | +4.1% | $2,589 | $211,445 | $168,596 |
| Fauquier County, VA | $656,541 | +2.9% | $2,403 | $148,586 | $121,094 |
| Frederick County, MD | $505,026 | −0.1% | $2,238 | $140,657 | $134,438 |
| Fredericksburg city, VA | $474,797 | +1.4% | $1,953 | $130,516 | $122,674 |
| Jefferson County, WV | $401,792 | +3.9% | $1,908 | $118,108 | $125,483 |
| Loudoun County, VA | $799,573 | +0.9% | $2,968 | $200,316 | $165,343 |
| Madison County, VA | $430,067 | +3.3% | — | $104,444 | $106,415 |
| Manassas city, VA | $493,272 | −0.9% | $2,200 | $123,914 | $132,078 |
| Manassas Park city, VA | $463,402 | +1.2% | $2,090 | $103,326 | $166,670 |
| Montgomery County, MD | $619,247 | −1.1% | $2,334 | $158,399 | $158,537 |
| Prince George's County, MD | $430,494 | −0.8% | $1,940 | $118,434 | $132,262 |
| Prince William County, VA | $586,907 | +1.0% | $2,288 | $141,710 | $143,017 |
| Rappahannock County, VA | $580,004 | +4.3% | — | $100,202 | $121,283 |
| Spotsylvania County, VA | $461,009 | +0.9% | $2,095 | $121,211 | $127,649 |
| Stafford County, VA | $544,161 | +0.5% | $2,432 | $148,238 | $134,978 |
| Warren County, VA | $401,011 | +2.9% | $1,868 | $96,160 | $103,652 |
A dash means the source publishes no figure for that county. Metro membership follows Zillow's own county-to-metro assignment.
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