Annandale, Virginia · 22003, Fairfax County
A real yard inside the Beltway. Half sold above asking.
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Updated October 2, 2026Bright MLS, closed January 1 to October 2, 20261
Quick answer
The median single-family home in Annandale sold for $925,000 in 2026, went under contract in six days, and almost half sold for more than the seller asked.
What a house costs in Annandale this year, how buyers pay, what it rents for, which of five high schools it feeds, and how long the drive is. Every number below is from Bright MLS closed sales, pulled on October 2, 2026, not from a listing site's estimate.
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Six numbers that describe Annandale.
★ Closed sales, January 1 to October 2, 20261
Annandale is an unincorporated community in Fairfax County with one zip code, 22003. Single-family means a detached house with at least three bedrooms and two full baths; townhouse means end-of-row and interior-row homes; condos, including the garden condos along Little River Turnpike, are not included. Source: Bright MLS, closed sales January 1 to October 2, 2026, Postal City = Annandale, pulled by Ahmed Makkiyah on October 2, 2026.
Why people choose Annandale
A real lot, a short drive and an established neighborhood.
Single-family houses on their own lot inside the Beltway; older houses that suit a renovation or a full rebuild; and established streets close to the Pentagon, DC, Fairfax and Falls Church.
Buyers choose Annandale over Fairfax for about $60,000 less at the median and a shorter drive to the Pentagon and DC, and over Falls Church for the lot. They choose it over Springfield and Burke for being inside the Beltway. Many 1950s houses here sell to builders for the land; for a newer house, the next step is usually Vienna or Fairfax.
Prices
What the $925,000 median buys: a mid-century house on a wooded lot.
Annandale's cheapest single-family sale of 2026 was $625,000 and its most expensive $2,790,000, and 164 of the 251 houses sold under $1 million.
The typical Annandale house is a late-1940s to 1960s brick rambler, split-level or colonial on a quarter to half acre of oaks, in Sleepy Hollow Woods, Broyhill Crest, Canterbury Woods or Wakefield Forest. Updated, it sells near the median. Original, it sells under $800,000 (53 sales), often to a builder. Above $1.3 million (28 sales) are the rebuilds: the same lot with a new house on it.
Annandale is a house market. 251 houses sold against 72 townhomes, about three and a half to one. The townhomes sold at a median of $627,000, from $490,000 (the lowest sale) to $899,900 (the highest), took a median 7 days to go under contract, and half went over asking.
At a median $486 a square foot, Annandale houses cost more per foot than Fairfax ($451) or the Alexandria side of the county ($468). Against Fairfax they still cost less per house, $925,000 against $985,000, because they are smaller. You are paying for the lot and for being inside the Beltway, ten minutes from Seven Corners and fifteen from the Pentagon.
Median single-family sale price, 20262
McLean $2,300,000; Great Falls $1,885,000; City of Falls Church (independent city) $1,685,000; Vienna $1,453,000; Oakton $1,420,000; Arlington County, all zips, $1,406,000; City of Alexandria (independent city) $1,350,000; Fairfax Station $1,245,000; Reston $1,120,000; Clifton $1,100,000; Falls Church addresses in Fairfax County $1,055,000; Fairfax addresses in Fairfax County $985,000; Fairfax County in September $950,000; Lorton $930,000; Annandale $925,000; Burke $925,000; Chantilly addresses in Fairfax County $923,650; Centreville $904,500; Alexandria addresses in Fairfax County $885,000; Herndon $879,000; Springfield $828,857; City of Fairfax (independent city) $820,000.
Bright MLS closed sales, January 1 to October 2, 2026 (City of Alexandria to October 3), except the Fairfax County row (September 2026 alone). The town rows are filtered to 3+ bedrooms and 2+ full baths and leave out homes legally owned as condos (including condo-style townhouses); 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.
Townhouse view: each place's median townhouse sale price and number of townhouse sales (end-of-row and interior-row townhouses, condo-owned homes left out), from the same Bright MLS searches as each place's own page, closed January 1 to October 2, 2026 (Arlington County and the City of Alexandria to October 3). A gray bar means fewer than 10 townhouses sold, too few to give a median. The Fairfax County, September row is left out of this view: there is no townhouse figure for that month alone.
| Measure | Single-family | Townhouse |
|---|---|---|
| Homes sold | 251 | 72 |
| Median sold price | $925,000 | $627,000 |
| Average sold price | $1,007,437 | $636,996 |
| Median price per square foot | $486 | $424 |
| Median days to contract | 6 | 7 |
| Median sale price as a share of the asking price (sold-to-list) | 100.0% | 100.0% |
| Sold above asking | 123 (49.0%) | 36 (50.0%) |
| Under contract within 7 days | 57.0% | 55.6% |
| Lowest sale | $625,000 | $490,000 |
| Highest sale | $2,790,000 | $899,900 |
| Total dollar volume | $252.9M | $45.9M |
Annandale home prices since 2019
Median- 2019: $650,000 median, 323 sales
- 2020: $712,700 median, 306 sales
- 2021: $762,500 median, 379 sales
- 2022: $813,100 median, 335 sales
- 2023: $794,500 median, 206 sales
- 2024: $850,000 median, 224 sales
- 2025: $885,000 median, 245 sales
- 2026: $925,000 median, 251 sales
Median sale price of Annandale single-family homes (3+ bedrooms, 2+ full baths), January 1 to September 30 each year, 2019 to 2026. Source: Bright MLS closed sales pulled by Ahmed Makkiyah, October 2026. Single-family homes and townhouses only; no condos.
- 2019: $460,000 median, 72 sales
- 2020: $475,000 median, 84 sales
- 2021: $510,000 median, 98 sales
- 2022: $545,000 median, 69 sales
- 2023: $586,000 median, 57 sales
- 2024: $613,827 median, 60 sales
- 2025: $638,000 median, 56 sales
- 2026: $627,000 median, 72 sales
Median sale price of Annandale townhouses (end-of-row and interior-row, not condo-owned), January 1 to September 30 each year, 2019 to 2026. Source: Bright MLS closed sales pulled by Ahmed Makkiyah, October 2026. Single-family homes and townhouses only; no condos.
Lowest and highest sales, 2026
A guide, not a price tag. The median is the middle sale: half the homes sold for more and half for less. It gives you a feel for prices here, not the price of any one home, and you'll always find homes above and below it, like the lowest and highest sales below.
Annandale closed sales, January 1 to October 2, 2026 (Bright MLS). Single-family means 3+ bedrooms and 2+ full baths; condo-owned homes, including townhouses sold as condominiums, are not counted.
- LowestCheapest single-family house$625,000lowest of 251 single-family sales, January 1 to October 2, 2026
- HighestHighest single-family house$2,790,000highest of 251 single-family sales, January 1 to October 2, 2026
- LowestCheapest townhouse$490,000lowest of 72 townhouse sales, January 1 to October 2, 2026
- HighestHighest townhouse$899,900highest of 72 townhouse sales, January 1 to October 2, 2026
What can you afford in Annandale? Start from the monthly payment you can live with, not the price. The calculator adds Fairfax County tax, insurance and HOA for you; most Annandale streets have a civic association, not an HOA.
Follow the money
Cash goes to the cheapest houses. Loans finance the rest.
In 2026, 38 of 251 single-family sales (15%) closed without a mortgage, and they made up 14% of all the money spent on houses. Under $800,000, almost one house in four sold for cash.
Share of single-family sales paid in cash, by price range, 2026
Under $800,000 23% (12 of 53); $800,000 to $1 million 15% (17 of 111); $1 to $1.3 million 7% (4 of 59); over $1.3 million 18% (5 of 28).
Under $800,000 the cash goes to original houses bought for the lot. From $1 million to $1.3 million, the renovated houses, only 4 of 59 sold for cash. Here a sale at exactly a row's top price, like $800,000, counts in that row; the price chart above counts it in the next row up.
How 251 single-family purchases were paid for, 2026
251 sales: cash 38 · conventional 184 · VA 24 · FHA and mixed 5
Cash buyers paid less: a median of $885,000 against $930,000 financed, and went under contract in about the same number of days. 184 buyers used a conventional loan and 24, about one in ten, a VA loan, fewer than Fairfax or the Alexandria side because Annandale is further from Fort Belvoir.
What that means if you need a loan: in the band where most buyers shop, $800,000 to $1.3 million, you are competing almost entirely with other financed buyers. Half the houses sold over asking and 57% went under contract within a week, so the offer that wins is a full pre-approval, a fast inspection and an escalation cap you decided before the open house.
Townhomes: 6 of 72 sales were cash (8%), and those buyers spent $3.8 million of $45.9 million (8%). The cash median, $627,000, was the same as the financed median, because the cash sales sat at the two ends: 3 under $600,000 and 3 over $652,000. Conventional 54, VA 8, FHA 3, other 1. Mixed cash-and-loan deals were counted as financed.
The interesting facts
Between Fairfax and Alexandria on price, with Koreatown on the corner.
Four things in the 2026 numbers that set Annandale apart.
Inside the Beltway. Most of Annandale sits inside I-495, and 164 of its 251 houses, most on wooded lots, still sold under $1 million. At those prices builders buy the original houses for the land, and the renovated ones go over asking.
What sells. Houses on a real lot with a short drive, and original houses bought to renovate or rebuild, for less than Falls Church prices.
Rentals. A house rents for a median $3,950 a month and leases in a median 18 days; townhomes are fewer and slower, 61 leases at a median 28 days. The rental market here is houses, not townhomes.
Rent or buy
Buying beats renting here, but only just.
A single-family home rents for a median of $3,950 a month and sells for $925,000, a price-to-rent ratio of 19.5; a townhome rents for $3,100 and sells for $627,000, a ratio of 16.9.1
| Measure | Single-family | Townhome |
|---|---|---|
| Homes rented | 88 | 61 |
| Median monthly rent | $3,950 | $3,100 |
| Average monthly rent | $4,093 | $3,061 |
| Median rent per square foot | $2.37 | $2.17 |
| Median days to lease | 18 | 28 |
| Rent range, lowest to highest lease | $2,700 to $6,400 | $2,250 to $4,300 |
Gross yield is before the mortgage, tax, insurance and upkeep. Under 20, anyone who stays five years or more can usually expect buying to beat renting, and a townhome at 16.9 gets there sooner. Three house leases that closed far above their asking rent look like data-entry errors and are left out of the range; they do not change the median.
Own in Annandale already? Half the houses here sold over asking this year, and builders are paying for lots. Ahmed runs a real comparative analysis against the 251 sales on this page, as a renovated sale and as a lot, not a website estimate.
The houses
Brick ramblers, split-levels and the rebuilds next door.
Annandale was built out between the late 1940s and the 1960s, and most of it still looks that way: brick houses on wooded lots, civic associations instead of HOAs, and a new build on every few streets.
Sleepy Hollow Woods. A preserved mid-century neighborhood built from 1958 to 1965; almost nine in ten of its homes date from 1940 to 1969. Ramblers and split-levels on sloped, wooded lots, with one of the strongest civic associations in the area.
Canterbury Woods and Wakefield Forest. Mid-1960s split-levels, colonials and ramblers on the west side, toward Fairfax. This is the Woodson pyramid (Woodson High and the schools that feed it), and it is where the renovated houses go furthest over asking.
Broyhill Crest and the Columbia Pike side. Started in 1951 and still filling in, with houses from the 1950s to new builds. The shortest drive in Annandale to the Pentagon and Arlington.
The townhomes. 72 sales, mostly 1970s to 1990s communities off Little River Turnpike, Backlick Road and Braddock Road. The garden condos along Little River Turnpike are a separate, cheaper market not counted here.
What to check. Radon, the age of the electrical panel and galvanized pipe in any original house; drainage on the sloped lots; and, if you plan to add on, what the lot allows. If you are buying from a builder, ask for the permits and the warranty in writing.
Schools
Annandale, Woodson, Falls Church or Justice, and the street decides.
22003 is split across several pyramids: Annandale High (IB) for the middle, Carter G. Woodson for Canterbury Woods and Wakefield Forest, Falls Church High for Camelot, and Justice for the Sleepy Hollow side.3
Annandale High School
Niche #17 in Fairfax County, US News #73 in Virginia. An IB World School: the Middle Years Programme in grades 9 and 10, then the IB Diploma. Fed by Annandale Terrace, Braddock and Columbia elementaries.
Carter G. Woodson High School
Niche #8 in the county, US News #7 in Virginia. Fed by Canterbury Woods and Wakefield Forest through Frost Middle.
Falls Church High School
Niche #21 in the county, US News #116 in Virginia. Fed by Camelot Elementary through Luther Jackson Middle.
Justice High School
US News #115 in Virginia, IB Diploma. Fed by Sleepy Hollow, Beech Tree and Parklawn through Glasgow Middle.
Lake Braddock Secondary
Niche #9 in the county, US News #22. Takes the Ravensworth edge toward Springfield.
Mustafa Center
On Braddock Road in 22003, with weekend school. Dar Al-Hijrah in Falls Church and the MAS center on Edsall Road are about ten minutes away; Madina and the Imam Ali Center in Springfield about the same.
NOVA Annandale campus
The largest campus of Northern Virginia Community College, about 23,000 students a year, on Little River Turnpike.
Saint Michael and the Islamic schools
Saint Michael Catholic School (PK to 8) is in 22003. Washington International Academy on Edsall Road and Al-Qalam Academy in Springfield are the nearest full-time Islamic schools.
The January 2026 boundary changes moved students out of crowded Glasgow Middle, 67 to Poe and 46 to Holmes, which ended the Mason Crest split at the middle-school level; about 20 Parklawn students moved to Columbia Elementary; and Poe gained an Advanced Academic Program center from 2026-27. A separate study of the Bren Mar Park feeders could move between 92 and 308 students from Edison to Annandale High, with no decision yet. A listing's school claim is not a guarantee. Check the exact address at the FCPS Boundary Locator, and ask Ahmed to confirm it before you offer.
Commute
No Metro, but the Beltway, 395 and Columbia Pike are all minutes away.
Annandale has no Metro station of its own. Most people drive, take Columbia Pike buses to the Pentagon, or park at Dunn Loring-Merrifield on the Orange Line, about four miles north.
| To | Drive | Route |
|---|---|---|
| Downtown DC | 30 to 50 min | Little River Turnpike to I-395, or the Beltway to I-66 |
| Pentagon | 20 to 40 min | Columbia Pike, or I-395 |
| Tysons | 15 to 30 min | The Beltway north, or Gallows Road |
| Reston Town Center | 35 to 50 min | The Beltway to the Dulles Toll Road |
| Dulles Airport | 35 to 55 min | The Beltway to the Dulles Toll Road or I-66 |
The Beltway's 495 Express Lanes and the 395 Express Lanes are both a few minutes from most of 22003; carpools of three ride free with an E-ZPass Flex, everyone else pays a toll that moves with traffic.5 Inside Annandale, Little River Turnpike and Braddock Road back up at rush hour, so a house near the Beltway or Columbia Pike saves real time. Ahmed will do the 7:45 drive with you before you offer.
Daily life
Koreatown, Wakefield Park, and Mustafa Center down the road.
Koreatown. Little River Turnpike and Columbia Pike are one of the largest Korean commercial districts on the East Coast: barbecue, soup houses open all night, bakeries and H Mart on Heritage Drive, which also has a halal meat section.
Outdoors. Wakefield Park is 292 acres off Braddock Road, from Lake Accotink to Little River Turnpike, with the Audrey Moore RECenter's pool, a free skate park, tennis and pickleball, and almost two paved miles of the Cross County Trail.
Halal and Middle Eastern. Naz Foods on Markham Street cuts halal meat to order. Halalco, the big halal supermarket, is ten minutes east in Bailey's Crossroads, with Jenin Pastry for knafeh. Mustafa Center is on Braddock Road.
Hospitals and shopping. Inova Fairfax Hospital, the region's Level I trauma center, is about five minutes up Gallows Road. The Mosaic District is ten minutes north.
Taxes.4 Annandale is unincorporated Fairfax County, so there is no town tax: the 2026 rate is $1.12 per $100 of assessed value plus $0.0335 in county fees, about $1.15 all in, roughly $10,700 a year on a $925,000 house. Some streets add a leaf-collection or refuse fee. The car tax is $4.57 per $100 of each vehicle's value.
How Annandale rates
How Annandale rates: quiet, walkable, transit and more, from 0 to 10.
Each score ranks Annandale among the 46 towns in this guide: 10 is the top of the list, 0 the bottom. It is not a national score. The real number and its source sit under each one.
89% of the land is under 50 dB of 24-hour road, rail and plane noise; 4% is at 60 dB or more. Check your street’s noise
US DOT National Transportation Noise Map, 2020 (road, rail and aviation)
12.6 of 20 on the EPA walkability index; 30 everyday shops and pharmacies mapped.
EPA National Walkability Index, version 3.0 (2021)
13 bus stops within half a mile of the average home; 0% of people live within 1 mile of a Metro or VRE station.
OpenStreetMap, map data of October 20, 2026, plus Fairfax Connector, Loudoun County Transit and OmniRide schedules; homes = 2020 Census neighborhoods (block groups)
28.4 miles of bike lanes and bike trails (2.2 per square mile); 7 Capital Bikeshare stations.
OpenStreetMap, map data of October 20, 2026; Capital Bikeshare station feed
67 restaurants, bars, music venues, theaters and cinemas within 1 mile of the average home (190 inside the town).
Overture Maps places, October 2026 release (open places only); homes = 2020 Census neighborhoods (block groups)
10 grocery stores, pharmacies, hardware and everyday shops within 1 mile of the average home; 90% of people live within 1 mile of a grocery store.
Overture Maps places, October 2026 release (open places only); homes = 2020 Census neighborhoods (block groups)
96% of people live within half a mile of a park; 991 acres of parks and nature preserves, 12% of the land.
OpenStreetMap, map data of October 20, 2026
The area is ZIP code 22003 as the Census Bureau maps it (12.63 square miles). We rate places, never people, so there is no school, safety or “who lives here” score. Map counts are what the sources have mapped and can miss a place. Scored October 22, 2026; updated every six months.
Where to eat
Best restaurants in Annandale, VA: Ahmed's list (2026)
"Ahmed, where do you go to eat?" The Annandale list.
Updated
The top five within about ten minutes of Annandale in each cuisine, the one doing best at the top, and halal marked.7
Also worth knowing: Erbil Kabob in Fairfax, about fifteen minutes west, is the Iraqi kitchen; Marib in Springfield does Yemeni lamb mandi; Mejana in Courthouse, Arlington, for Lebanese mezze. Closed in 2026 on Little River Turnpike, so not listed: Tandoori Nights, Baden Baden, Thai Food, Hot Lola's and Ben's Burgers, plus Izakaya Honey Pig on Markham Street. Rankings weigh current Yelp and Google ratings by review count, critics' lists and whether the place is busy; the halal note comes from Zabihah, Yelp's halal category or the restaurant itself. Know one that belongs here? Tell Ahmed.
Questions
What people ask about Annandale.
How much does a house cost in Annandale, Virginia in 2026?
The median single-family home (3+ bedrooms, 2+ full baths) in Annandale sold for $925,000 in 2026 through October 2, across 251 sales in Bright MLS, at $486 per square foot. The median townhouse sold for $627,000 across 72 sales. Houses ran from $625,000 to $2,790,000 and townhomes from $490,000 to $899,900 (lowest to highest sale).
What was the cheapest home sold in Annandale, Virginia in 2026?
Bright MLS closed sales from January 1 to October 2, 2026, single-family houses (3+ bedrooms, 2+ full baths) and townhouses only, no condos:
- Cheapest single-family house: $625,000, the lowest of 251 single-family sales
- Cheapest townhouse: $490,000, the lowest of 72 townhouse sales
- Highest single-family house: $2,790,000, the highest of 251 single-family sales
- Highest townhouse: $899,900, the highest of 72 townhouse sales
Want a home near these prices? Ask Ahmed, or call or text 734.383.6945 or 703.957.0060.
Is the median price what a home in Annandale will cost?
No. The median is the middle sale of 2026, not a set price: half the single-family houses sold for more and half for less. In Annandale they sold from $625,000 to $2,790,000. Use the median to get a feel for the market, then look at homes on both sides of it.
How competitive is the Annandale housing market?
Very competitive. In 2026, 49% of single-family homes and 50% of townhomes sold above the asking price, and the median house went under contract in 6 days (7 for townhomes).
How many Annandale home buyers pay cash or use a VA loan?
15% of single-family buyers paid cash in 2026, 38 of 251, and cash was most common under $800,000, where 23% of sales were cash, often builders buying original houses to rebuild. 184 buyers used a conventional loan and 24, about 10%, used a VA loan.
What is rent in Annandale, Virginia?
In 2026 the median single-family rental (3+ bedrooms) leased for $3,950 a month across 88 closed leases in Bright MLS, and the median townhome for $3,100 across 61 leases. Houses took a median of 18 days to lease and townhomes 28.
Is it better to rent or buy in Annandale?
Buying wins for anyone who stays five years or more. The price-to-rent ratio is 19.5 for a single-family home ($925,000 against $47,400 a year in rent) and 16.9 for a townhome ($627,000 against $37,200), so the townhome math is the stronger of the two.
Which high schools serve Annandale?
Zip 22003 is split: Annandale High (IB) serves the middle of Annandale, Carter G. Woodson serves Canterbury Woods and Wakefield Forest, Falls Church High serves Camelot, Justice serves the Sleepy Hollow side, and Lake Braddock takes the Ravensworth edge toward Springfield. Check any address at the FCPS Boundary Locator.
How long is the commute from Annandale to DC and the Pentagon?
At 8 am on a weekday, downtown DC is about 30 to 50 minutes by car, the Pentagon 20 to 40 and Tysons 15 to 30. Annandale has no Metro station; the nearest is Dunn Loring-Merrifield on the Orange Line, about four miles north, and Columbia Pike buses run to the Pentagon. These drive times are estimates.
What is the property tax in Annandale, Virginia?
Annandale 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, about $1.15 all in, roughly $10,700 a year on a $925,000 house.
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