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Springfield, Virginia
The Blue Line starts here, and more than half the houses sold over asking.
At a glance
Six numbers that describe Springfield.
The median single-family home in Springfield sold for $828,857 in 2026 and went under contract in six days, and 56% sold above the asking price.
Springfield is an unincorporated part of Fairfax County with three mailing names, Springfield, North Springfield and West Springfield, across four zip codes. It has the Franconia-Springfield Metro and VRE station, the Backlick Road VRE stop and the I-95, I-395 and Beltway interchange. This page shows what a house or townhouse costs, how buyers pay, what it rents for, which high school it feeds and the commute. Every number is from Bright MLS closed sales, pulled on October 2, 2026, not from a listing site's estimate.
Springfield here means the Bright MLS postal cities Springfield, North Springfield and West Springfield in Fairfax County, zips 22150 to 22153. Kingstowne and Franconia have Alexandria mailing addresses and are on the Alexandria page. Single-family means a detached house with at least three bedrooms and two full baths; townhouse means end-of-row and interior-row homes; condominium-regime homes are left out of both. Source: Bright MLS, closed sales January 1 to October 2, 2026, pulled by Ahmed Makkiyah on October 2, 2026.
Prices
$828,857 for a house, about $96,000 less than Burke or Annandale.
A Springfield house costs less than one in Burke or Annandale ($925,000) or Herndon ($879,000), but it costs more per foot than Burke: $470 against $450. The lower price buys a smaller house, not a cheaper foot.
Houses. 455 houses sold, from $450,000 to $1,721,000, at a median of $828,857 and an average of $860,987. 56% sold above asking and 60% went under contract within a week, so the median buyer paid 100.5% of the list price.
Townhouses. 241 townhouses sold at a median of $630,000, more than in Burke ($616,000) or Annandale ($627,000). The top sale was $880,000, and 44% went over asking.
By zip. 22153, toward Burke and Newington, sold 181 houses and 105 townhouses, the most of the four. 22152 (West Springfield) sold 99 houses and 90 townhouses, 22150 (central Springfield) 88 and 35, and 22151 (North Springfield) 87 houses and only 11 townhouses.
Median single-family sale price, 20262
Bright MLS closed sales, 2026 year to date, except the Fairfax County row (September 2026 alone). The town rows are filtered to 3+ bedrooms and 2+ full baths and leave out condominium-regime homes; the Fairfax County row has no size filter. Fairfax, Alexandria and Falls Church mean the Fairfax County addresses, not the independent cities, and Chantilly means its Fairfax County side. Arlington County, the neighbor to the east, is one row for the whole county (pulled October 3, same filters). The Cities of Fairfax, Falls Church and Alexandria are independent cities next to the county, shown under their own names. Oak Hill (20 sales) and Dunn Loring (12) are too small to chart.
| Measure | Single-family | Townhouse |
|---|---|---|
| Homes sold | 455 | 241 |
| Median sold price | $828,857 | $630,000 |
| Average sold price | $860,987 | $624,648 |
| Median price per square foot | $470 | $417 |
| Median days to contract | 6 | 6 |
| Median sold-to-list | 100.5% | 100.0% |
| Sold above asking | 254 (55.8%) | 106 (44.0%) |
| Under contract within 7 days | 60.4% | 56.4% |
| Lowest sale | $450,000 | $150,000 |
| Highest sale | $1,721,000 | $880,000 |
| Cash sales | 34 (7.5%) | 24 (10.0%) |
Two cash house sales went far over list: $761,200 on a $400,000 list (190%) and $605,000 on $450,000 (134%), the pattern of an as-is or estate sale priced to draw a bidding war. They lift the average sold-to-list to 101.7%; the median, 100.5%, is the better number. The $150,000 townhouse sale is far below every other one and looks like a family or non-market transfer; it does not move the median.
What can you afford in Springfield? Start from the monthly payment you can live with, not the price. Most townhouses pay an HOA and every house pays county tax; the calculator adds them for you.
Follow the money
34 of 455 house buyers paid cash, and 104 used a VA loan.
Cash buyers paid for 7.5% of Springfield houses and 6.9% of the dollars, $27.2 million of $391.7 million. They bought the cheaper ones: the median cash house sold for $761,600, against $835,000 with a loan.
Share of house sales paid in cash, by price range
Cash is rarer here than in Burke (12.5% of houses) or Annandale (15.1%), and it thins out as the price rises. Townhouses show the same pattern more sharply: 17 of the 60 townhouses under $575,000 sold for cash (28%), against 7 of the 181 above it.
How 455 house purchases were paid for
Almost one house buyer in four used a VA loan, 104 of 455, more than in Burke (39 of 184, 21%). Fort Belvoir and the Pentagon are both close, and a VA buyer here is competing mostly with other financed buyers.
What that means if you need a loan: six in ten houses went under contract within a week and more than half sold over asking, so the offer that wins is a full pre-approval, a short inspection window and an appraisal-gap plan you settled before the open house. VA offers win here often; sellers' agents know them.
Townhouses: 156 conventional, 45 VA, 24 cash, 14 FHA, 1 VHDA and 1 other of 241; the median cash townhouse sold for $538,500 against $635,000 financed. FHA and other on houses is about 10 FHA, 7 assumable, 4 private and 2 other. Mixed cash-and-loan deals were counted as financed.
The interesting facts
A lower median than Burke, but $470 a foot against $450.
Four things in the 2026 numbers that set Springfield apart.
You pay for the location, not the size. The median house is about $96,000 cheaper than in Burke, but each square foot costs more. Springfield houses are smaller and older, and buyers pay for the Metro, the VRE and the drive to the Pentagon.
Who is buying. Military and federal families on VA loans, commuters who want a train to the Pentagon or downtown, first-time buyers moving from a townhouse to a house, and Arab, Afghan and Pakistani families near the mosques and halal markets on Backlick Road.
Cash hunts the bottom. Investors and downsizers with cash went after the cheaper homes: 11% of houses under $746,000 sold for cash and 4% above $925,000, and almost three in ten townhouses under $575,000. If you are financing a starter home, expect a cash offer in the pile.
Rent or buy
A house rents for $3,800 a month and sells for 18 times its yearly rent.
A Springfield house rents for a median of $3,800 a month and sells for $828,857, a price-to-rent ratio of 18.2; a townhome rents for $3,000 and sells for $630,000, a ratio of 17.5.1
| Measure | Single-family | Townhome |
|---|---|---|
| Homes rented | 165 | 237 |
| Median monthly rent | $3,800 | $3,000 |
| Average monthly rent | $3,836 | $3,038 |
| Gross rental yield | 5.5% | 5.7% |
| Rent range | $2,600 to $5,600 | $2,000 to $4,600 |
Gross yield is before the mortgage, tax, HOA, insurance and upkeep. Ratios of 17 to 18 sit in the middle: buying pays off if you stay five years or more, and renting is fair value if you may move sooner. A house rents for less than in Burke ($4,000) or Annandale ($3,950). House leases by zip: 58 in 22153, 47 in 22151, 43 in 22152 and 17 in 22150.
Own in Springfield already? More than half the houses sold above asking this year. Ahmed runs a real comparative analysis against the 696 sales on this page, in your zip, not a website estimate.
The houses
Four zip codes, from 87 house sales in North Springfield to 181 in 22153.
Springfield was built out mostly after the Second World War: older brick houses close to the Beltway, and later colonials and townhouse communities to the west and south.
North Springfield (22151). Mostly brick ramblers and split-levels from the 1950s. 87 houses sold in 2026 and only 11 townhouses; parts feed Annandale High and parts Lake Braddock.
Central Springfield (22150). Around Backlick Road, the Springfield Town Center and the Franconia-Springfield station, with mosques, halal markets and Afghan and Pakistani kitchens close by. 88 houses and 35 townhouses sold.
West Springfield (22152). Colonials and split-levels from the 1960s and 1970s along Old Keene Mill Road and Rolling Road, and the West Springfield High pyramid. 99 houses and 90 townhouses sold.
22153. The busiest zip, out toward Burke, Newington and the Fairfax County Parkway, with Saratoga, Newington Forest and the Sangster area. 181 houses and 105 townhouses sold, more than any other Springfield zip.
What to check. On a 1950s or 1960s house: the electrical panel, the roof, windows and HVAC, and whether the basement takes water. Near I-95 and the Beltway, the road noise at the hour you would be home. On a townhouse, the HOA resale package with the dues and any special assessment.
Schools
West Springfield High, Niche #6 in Fairfax County, plus Lake Braddock and Lewis.
Springfield is split among several FCPS pyramids. Most of 22152 and much of 22153 feed West Springfield High; parts feed Lake Braddock, Lewis, Annandale or South County, street by street.3
A+
West Springfield High School
Niche #6 in Fairfax County and #10 in Virginia, US News #12 in Virginia, about 2,800 students, through Irving Middle.
A
Lake Braddock Secondary
Niche #9 in the county, US News #22 in Virginia, grades 7 to 12. Takes Sangster (22153) and Ravensworth (22151) elementaries.
B-
John R. Lewis High School
Central Springfield (22150), US News #196 in Virginia. Opened in 1958 and renamed in 2020 for the congressman John Lewis.
Study
Boundary decisions due January 2027
The Keene Mill Elementary island (to White Oaks and Cardinal Forest) and part of Rolling Valley (from Lewis to West Springfield) were held out of the January 2026 changes for more study.
Masjid
Madina and Darul Huda
Madina Islamic Center on Backlick Road, with several Friday prayers, and Masjid Darul Huda on Commerce Street, beside Al-Qalam Academy, an Islamic school.
Masjid
Imam Ali Center and Masjid Noor
The Imam Ali Center, a large Shia (Ja'fari) center on Backlick Road with programs in several languages; Masjid Noor on Pohick Road toward Burke.
Halal
Super Halal Meat
On Spring Garden Drive in 22150, hand-slaughtered zabiha meat with Pakistani, Indian, Bangladeshi and Middle Eastern groceries.
Halal
Halal Super Mart and Afghan Mini Market
Both on Backlick Road in 22150: fresh halal meat, desi spices and Afghan groceries, a few minutes from the mosques.
North Springfield Elementary feeds Annandale High (Niche #17 in the county) through Holmes Middle, and Saratoga Elementary in 22153 feeds South County High (Niche #10, US News #60 in Virginia) through South County Middle. The January 2026 boundary changes took effect in 2026-27, but the Keene Mill and Rolling Valley pieces are still open, so the school on a West Springfield listing today may change. Check any address at the FCPS Boundary Locator and ask Ahmed to confirm it before you offer.
Commute
The Blue Line starts here: about 37 minutes to Metro Center and 20 to the Pentagon.
Springfield has a Metro terminus and two VRE stations, Franconia-Springfield and Backlick Road, and it sits on the interchange where I-95, I-395 and the Beltway meet. The interchange is the one road that decides your morning.
| To | Drive | Route |
|---|---|---|
| Downtown DC | 35 to 60 min | I-395 north, or the Blue Line or VRE |
| Pentagon | 25 to 45 min | I-395 Express Lanes, or about 20 min on the Blue Line |
| Fort Belvoir | 15 to 25 min | Fairfax County Parkway or I-95 south |
| Tysons | 25 to 45 min | The Beltway north, Express Lanes available |
| Dulles Airport | 40 to 60 min | The Beltway and Dulles Toll Road, or the Fairfax County Parkway |
From Franconia-Springfield the Blue Line takes about 37 minutes to Metro Center; weekday parking is $4.95 for riders with a SmarTrip card and free on weekends. VRE trains take about 38 minutes from Backlick Road to Union Station and about 29 from Franconia-Springfield to L'Enfant, for a $5 single fare. The Springfield Garage slug line, with free carpools to the Pentagon, Foggy Bottom, L'Enfant and Navy Yard, is under maintenance until February 2027; the Franconia-Springfield kiss-and-ride and Old Keene Mill lots have morning lines too.5 Ahmed will do the 7:45 drive or the train with you before you offer.
Daily life
Lake Accotink, the Town Center, and halal shops on Backlick Road.
Outdoors and sights. Lake Accotink Park sits on the 40-mile Cross County Trail. The county dropped full dredging and is studying a smaller lake with managed wetlands, with the study due late in 2026. Springfield Town Center has Macy's, Target, Nordstrom Rack and the LEGO Discovery Center.
Food and groceries. Backlick Road and Spring Garden Drive are lined with halal butchers, Afghan and Pakistani kitchens and Big Red Halal; Hechinger Drive has Marib, the Yemeni house, in a strip of shops from around the world.
Taxes.4 Unincorporated Fairfax County, no town tax: $1.12 per $100 plus about $0.0335 in county fees, about $1.15 all in, roughly $9,500 a year on an $828,857 house and $7,200 on a $630,000 townhouse, before any HOA dues. The car tax is $4.57 per $100 of the car's value.
Where to eat
"Ahmed, where do you go to eat?" The Springfield list.
Up to five picks within about fifteen minutes of Springfield in each cuisine, the one doing best at the top, and halal marked. Most are on Backlick Road, Spring Garden Drive and Hechinger Drive in 22150 and 22151.7
Closed, so not listed: Kabul Kabob on Commerce Street and Shawarma Guys in Kingstowne show as closed on Yelp in 2026, and Kismet Modern Indian in Springfield has been replaced. Rankings weigh current Yelp ratings by review count, critics' lists and whether the place is busy; Aditi's star rating was not available, and Erbil Kabob's rating is from Restaurant Guru. The halal note comes from Zabihah, Yelp or the restaurant itself, and "ask about halal" means it could not be confirmed. Know one that belongs here? Tell Ahmed.
Who buys here
Military families, rail commuters and first-time buyers moving up.
Military and veteran families, 104 of the 455 house buyers used a VA loan; Pentagon and downtown commuters who want the Blue Line or VRE; townhouse owners trading up to a house; and Arab, Afghan and Pakistani families near the Backlick Road mosques and markets.
Buyers choose Springfield over Burke or Annandale for about $96,000 less at the median and a train station nearby,. They give up house size: the same money buys fewer square feet than in Burke or Chantilly. If you are choosing among the four zips, decide on the high school and the commute first; the price follows.
Questions
What people ask about Springfield.
How much does a house cost in Springfield, Virginia in 2026?
The median single-family home (3+ bedrooms, 2+ full baths) in Springfield, North Springfield and West Springfield sold for $828,857 in 2026 through October 2, across 455 sales in Bright MLS, at $470 per square foot. The median townhouse sold for $630,000 across 241 sales. That is about $96,000 less than a house in Burke or Annandale ($925,000). Condominium-regime homes are not included.
How competitive is the Springfield housing market?
Competitive. In 2026, 56% of single-family homes sold above the asking price, 60% went under contract within a week, and the median house and townhouse each took 6 days. The median house sold for 100.5% of its list price.
Do Springfield buyers pay cash or use VA loans?
Few pay cash and many use VA loans. In 2026, 34 of 455 house buyers paid cash (7.5%), 104 used a VA loan (23%) and 295 a conventional loan. Cash went to the cheaper homes: 11% of houses under $746,000 sold for cash against 4% above $925,000, and 17 of 60 townhouses under $575,000 did.
What is rent in Springfield, Virginia?
In 2026 the median single-family house leased for $3,800 a month across 165 leases, and the median townhome for $3,000 across 237 leases. House rents ran from $2,600 to $5,600.
Is it better to rent or buy in Springfield?
A Springfield house sells for about 18.2 times its yearly rent ($828,857 against $45,600) and a townhouse for 17.5 times ($630,000 against $36,000), for gross yields of 5.5% and 5.7%. At those ratios buying usually pays off if you stay five years or more, and renting is fair value if you may move sooner.
Which high schools serve Springfield?
Most of West Springfield (22152) and much of 22153 feed West Springfield High (Niche A+, #6 in Fairfax County; US News #12 in Virginia). Other addresses feed Lake Braddock Secondary (Niche #9 in the county), John R. Lewis High in central Springfield, Annandale High or South County High. FCPS is still studying the Keene Mill and Rolling Valley boundaries, with recommendations due by January 2027, so check every address with the FCPS Boundary Locator.
How long is the commute from Springfield to DC?
By car at 8 am, downtown DC is about 35 to 60 minutes, the Pentagon 25 to 45 and Tysons 25 to 45; these drive times are estimates. By train, the Blue Line takes about 37 minutes from Franconia-Springfield to Metro Center and about 20 to the Pentagon, and VRE takes about 38 minutes from Backlick Road to Union Station for a $5 fare.
What is the property tax in Springfield, Virginia?
Springfield is unincorporated Fairfax County, so there is no town tax. The 2026 rate is $1.12 per $100 plus about $0.0335 in county fees, roughly $9,500 a year on an $828,857 house and $7,200 on a $630,000 townhouse. The car tax is $4.57 per $100, and HOA dues are extra.
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Ahmed's take
Two or three sentences in Ahmed's own voice go here: who Ahmed sees buying in Springfield, how Ahmed helps a VA buyer win against offers over asking, and the first thing Ahmed checks on a listing (the high school pyramid, and the age of the roof and panel on an older house).
دليل شمال فرجينيا
السكن في سبرينغفيلد، فرجينيا.
تضم سبرينغفيلد أربعة رموز بريدية، من 22150 إلى 22153، وفيها محطة لمترو الخط الأزرق ولقطار VRE. بلغ السعر الوسطي للبيت المستقل 828,857 دولاراً، وللتاون هاوس 630,000 دولار.
البيت هنا أرخص منه في بيرك وأنانديل بنحو 96 ألف دولار، لكن سعر القدم المربع أعلى، أي أن البيت أصغر وأنت تدفع مقابل الموقع. السوق سريع: بيع أكثر من نصف البيوت بأكثر من السعر المطلوب، وبلغت المدة الوسطية حتى توقيع العقد ستة أيام. ونحو مشترٍ واحد من كل أربعة اشترى بقرض VA، لأن فورت بلفوار والبنتاغون قريبان. أقوى مدرسة هي ويست سبرينغفيلد هاي، السادسة في المقاطعة بحسب Niche. مسجد المدينة ومركز الإمام علي على شارع باكليك، ومتاجر اللحم الحلال المذبوح يدوياً على شارع سبرينغ غاردن. جميع الأرقام من Bright MLS، مبيعات مغلقة من 1 يناير إلى 2 أكتوبر 2026.
قبل أن تقدّم عرضاً، تأكد من المدرسة الثانوية للعنوان بالتحديد، لأن حدود المدارس في سبرينغفيلد ما زالت قيد الدراسة. هل تحتار بين الرموز البريدية الأربعة؟ أرسل لي تفاصيل وضعك، وسأحسب معك أرقامك الحقيقية، بالعربية أو بالإنجليزية.
وكيلك العقاري الموثوق في شمال فرجينيا.
Burke
Most houses sold over asking.
$925K
Median house, 2026
Annandale
A lot inside the Beltway.
$925K
Median house, 2026
Buying power
Start from the payment.
Tax, insurance and HOA included
Home valuation
Priced on evidence.
A real comparative analysis, not a website estimate
Fairfax County
Fifty-one years of prices.
$950K
Median house, September 2026
بالعربية
Every step, in Arabic.
بالعربية أو بالإنجليزية، كما تفضّل