Fairfax County · County guide
Fairfax County, Virginia — The Region's Deep, Diverse Core
Fairfax County is the DMV's most populous jurisdiction and the backbone of its housing market — deep, liquid, and about as varied as a single county gets. Tysons high-rises, the Reston–Herndon tech corridor, leafy Vienna and McLean, and the more attainable western suburbs around Centreville and Chantilly all sit under one county line.
What ties it together is relentless demand for good schools and Metro access, and what separates the fast sales from the slow ones is segment. A well-priced single-family home and a resale condo can behave like two different markets in the same month.
The numbers
Fairfax County market data
Fairfax County snapshot
- Median sale price
- $729,004*
- Typical home value
- $779,439*
- Year over year
- -0.6%*
Source: Zillow Research (median sale price), May 2026.
Source: Zillow Research (ZHVI), June 2026.
* Estimated by Zillow.
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Living here
What living in Fairfax County is actually like
The county reads as a set of distinct worlds: Tysons is the region's edge-city downtown; Reston and Herndon anchor the Dulles tech corridor; Vienna and McLean bring the affluence and the top pyramids; the western suburbs deliver space and value. Orange and Silver Line Metro, the Beltway, I-66, and the Dulles Toll Road knit it together, with Great Falls and the W&OD for green space.
It's the kind of place where two miles can change your schools, your commute, and your price per square foot. That hyper-local variation is exactly why generic advice fails here and a real read of your specific pocket matters.
The housing market
The Fairfax County housing market
Inventory spans everything from condos to multimillion-dollar estates, and the county reports on a trailing three-month basis that smooths out the monthly noise. Well-prepared single-family homes in strong pyramids move quickly; the condo tier is the softer spot right now, where buyers have more leverage and pricing has to be sharper to avoid sitting.
For sellers, the county number is a starting point, not a strategy. I anchor pricing to the specific segment and neighborhood a home competes in — because in a market this broad, the difference between the right comp set and a lazy one is measured in real money.
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Areas within Fairfax County
The towns and neighborhoods inside Fairfax County — each with its own in-depth guide and current numbers.
Centreville
Median $580,839*
Centreville sits at the western edge of Fairfax County, where I-66 and Route 28 meet, and it has long been one of th…
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Chantilly
Median $746,835*
Chantilly sits at Fairfax County's western edge, where the suburbs meet the Dulles technology corridor and Route 50…
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Fairfax City
Median $777,234*
The City of Fairfax is an independent city entirely surrounded by Fairfax County, and it keeps a small-town identity…
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Herndon
Median $704,557*
Herndon is one of Fairfax County's two incorporated towns, and it has something most of the surrounding suburbia gav…
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McLean
Median $1,432,816*
McLean is one of the wealthiest communities in the country, and its housing market reflects it: leafy estate lots, c…
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Reston
Median $616,117*
Reston was Robert E. Simon's 1964 experiment in how a community should be built — his initials gave it its name — an…
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Vienna
Median $1,176,145*
Vienna is the incorporated town that consistently lands near the top of best-places-to-live lists for Northern Virgi…
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