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Housing in Mineral

A typical Mineral home is worth about $472,000

Up 2.4% in a year, 14% above the Virginia typical home.

Typical home value
$472K
▲ 2.4% in a year · VA $415K
Zillow
2-bedroom rent
$1,160
a month, utilities in · HUD
Median tax bill
$1,649
VA $2,790
Price trend

Up 25.8% in five years

About the same pace as Virginia (23.4%).

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JanuaryMineralVirginia
2017$263,000$253,000
2018$276,000$263,000
2019$288,000$271,000
2020$301,000$284,000
2021$338,000$311,000
2022$387,000$345,000
2023$409,000$367,000
2024$431,000$386,000
2025$458,000$405,000
2026$468,000$411,000
August 2026$472,000$415,000
Then & now

A typical Mineral home worth $258K in August 2016 is worth about $472K today.

+$214K
+2.4%
past year
+25.8%
past 5 years
+83%
since 2016

Zillow Home Value Index: the typical value of all homes (middle third), smoothed and seasonally adjusted, through August 2026.

Affordability

A typical home costs 6.6 years of income

More than across Virginia (4.5 years). Try your own numbers below.

You could afford about
$288,000
Typical Mineral home $472K

That’s $184K short of a typical Mineral home.

The typical home, each month
$2,720
Loan $2,340Tax $240Insurance $140

A two-bedroom rents for about $1,160 a month here, $1,560 less than owning.

An estimate, not a loan offer: payments of up to 28% of income, a 30-year fixed loan, Mineral’s typical property tax (0.62% of value a year, from the Census) and insurance of about 0.35%. Mortgage insurance, HOA fees and other debts aren’t included.

Renting

A two-bedroom rents for about $1,160

Renters already here pay a median of $1,267.

Fair Market Rent a month, utilities included

Studio$1,010
1 bedroom$1,060
2 bedrooms$1,160
3 bedrooms$1,590
4 bedrooms$1,800
26%
of households rent · VA 33%
46
renter households
$1,267
median rent paid today · Census

U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, Fair Market Rents by ZIP code (Richmond, VA HUD Metro FMR Area): the 40th-percentile rent plus utilities for a standard unit. Median rent and renters: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey.

The homes

74% of Mineral households own their home

Half of Mineral’s homes were built before 1960.

Owners and renters
Own 74%Rent 26%

Virginia: 67% own.

1960
typical home built · VA 1984
$1,649
median property tax bill · VA $2,790
0.62%
of a home’s value, a year in tax · VA 0.73%

U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2020-2024 · figures for a place this size carry wide margins of error.

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Listed in the past 60 days. Each opens on the listing site.

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Home values: Zillow Home Value Index (ZHVI), Zillow Research, August 2026. Sales, days on market and supply: Redfin Data Center. Income, ownership, taxes and rent: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey. Fair Market Rents: U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. Listings link to their publishers. The calculator is an estimate, not a loan offer.

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