Loudoun County · County guide
Loudoun County, Virginia — Wealth, Data Centers, and a Two-Speed Market
Loudoun is one of the highest-income counties in the country, and its housing market reflects the split personality that made it that way. The eastern third — Ashburn, Sterling, Brambleton, South Riding — is planned-community suburbia riding the Dulles data-center corridor and the Silver Line. Head west and the county turns to Leesburg's historic streets, then horse farms, vineyards, and estate acreage.
That spread is why a single county median tells you almost nothing here. Eastern zips near Metro and the tech jobs move on their own clock; the far west trades on land, views, and lifestyle. The number that matters is always the one for your community, not the county.
The numbers
Loudoun County market data
Loudoun County snapshot
- Median sale price
- $748,508*
- Typical home value
- $809,557*
- Year over year
- +0.5%*
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 Loudoun is actually like
Eastern Loudoun is master-planned living — pools, trails, town centers like One Loudoun and Brambleton, and school pyramids that consistently rank among Virginia's best. Central Loudoun centers on Leesburg, the historic county seat. The west — Purcellville, Middleburg, Waterford — is rural, equestrian, and increasingly known for wineries and breweries.
Commuting runs on the Dulles Greenway and Route 7/28, with the Silver Line reaching Ashburn on the east end. Dulles Airport sits at the county's doorstep. The practical rule: the farther west you buy, the more space and quiet you get, and the longer the drive to the job centers.
The housing market
The Loudoun housing market
Inventory runs from newer townhomes and single-family homes in the east to established mid-county neighborhoods to multimillion-dollar estates out west. The county-wide trend has been roughly flat lately, but that average hides real divergence — some eastern communities are up double digits while others have softened.
For sellers, that makes sub-market pricing everything. I price a Loudoun home against the handful of genuinely comparable sales in its own community and price band, not a county headline — because in a market this varied, the county number is the one most likely to cost you money.
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Areas within Loudoun County
The towns and neighborhoods inside Loudoun County — each with its own in-depth guide and current numbers.
Ashburn
Typical value $759,590*
Ashburn grew from farmland into the heart of eastern Loudoun County in about twenty-five years, and it did it withou…
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Leesburg
Median $821,797*
Leesburg is Loudoun County's seat and its oldest town, and it wears both well: a genuinely historic downtown of bric…
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Middleburg
Typical value $1,167,047*
Middleburg is tiny — a few walkable blocks of stone and clapboard storefronts — but its name carries far beyond its…
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Purcellville
Median $840,223*
Purcellville is the commercial heart of western Loudoun, the last real town before the county gives way to vineyards…
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South Riding
Typical value $856,621*
South Riding sits at Loudoun's southern edge, in the fast-growing Dulles South area near the Route 50 and Loudoun Co…
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Sterling
Typical value $601,461*
Sterling is where Loudoun County started suburbanizing, and that head start is exactly its advantage today: establis…
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