Vienna · Fairfax County · Virginia

Ken Tully, REALTOR®, raised in Vienna

Ken grew up in Vienna and has sold homes across its three ZIP codes since 1988. Inside town limits or out in the county, he prices each street on its own terms.

REALTOR® · GRI · SRES® · Licensed Since 1988

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Since 1988Selling Vienna homes
22180–22182Vienna ZIP codes
Orange LineVienna/Fairfax-GMU station
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About Ken

Ken learned Vienna as a student at Flint Hill and Thoreau

Vienna is where Ken grew up. He attended Flint Hill Elementary and Thoreau Middle before graduating from Oakton High, and friendships that started there have lasted ever since. Since 1988 he has represented buyers and sellers across 22180, 22181 and 22182, from Craftsman rebuilds near Church Street to colonials farther out, and he served on the Northern Virginia Association of REALTORS® Board of Directors.

  • Town or county, by address

    Ken confirms whether a home sits inside Town of Vienna limits, which changes taxes, services and zoning review.

  • Teardown math

    For older ramblers and split-levels he weighs land value against rebuild cost, the calculation behind much of Vienna's new construction.

  • Renovation history checked

    Many Vienna homes date from the 1960s to 1980s, so he asks for the permits behind every updated kitchen and bath.

  • Commutes compared fairly

    He maps each listing's drive to the Vienna/Fairfax-GMU station and Maple Avenue so buyers compare like with like.

This Area

Understanding Vienna, Virginia

Vienna began as Ayr Hill, a crossroads named for a Scottish county, and took its current name from a New York hometown in the 1850s. The railroad arrived in 1859, the town incorporated in 1890, and the old rail bed now carries the W&OD Trail past the Freeman Store and the restored depot on Church Street.

A Vienna mailing address can mean two different places. The incorporated Town of Vienna covers about 4.4 square miles and sits almost entirely in 22180; its addresses end in NE, NW, SE or SW. Most of 22181 and 22182, from Lakevale and Glencannon to Clarks Crossing and Wolftrap, lies outside the town in unincorporated Fairfax County.

That line changes the cost and the services. Town property pays a 19-cent town rate on top of the county's $1.12, about $13,100 a year on a $1 million assessment, and in return gets town trash and leaf collection, the Vienna Police Department and town water and sewer. The town's zoning code, rewritten in 2023 as Code Create Vienna, also governs lot coverage, height and tree review.

Inside the town, about 78 percent of homes are detached, and county records show roughly a quarter of its houses built in 2010 or later as 1950s and 1960s ramblers give way to rebuilds. The Vienna/Fairfax-GMU station on the Orange Line sits outside the town, about 2 miles by road from Church Street, with Silver Line service closest at Spring Hill in Tysons.

“Vienna carries a warmth that is genuinely rare in a Metro-accessible suburb.”

Ken Tully

Market Snapshot

Vienna by the Numbers

Two ways to read Vienna prices, the combined tax rate that applies inside town limits, and how much of the town is detached housing.

$1,356,854Median sale price, ViennaRedfin, September 2026
$1,161,512Typical home value, ViennaZillow, September 2026
$1.31Town plus county rate per $100Town of Vienna and Fairfax County, FY2027
78.3%Detached homes, Town of ViennaU.S. Census ACS 2020–2024

Redfin, Zillow and county-verified sales each draw Vienna's boundaries differently, so their medians rarely match; Ken prices from the comparable sales on your street.

Local Insights

Vienna in detail, from Church Street outward

Town records, Census estimates and Ken's own memory of the place, sorted into ten topics. Choose one to open it.

01Market Fundamentals
  1. Redfin reported a median sale price of $1,356,854 for Vienna in September 2026, up 2.8 percent from a year earlier, on 51 closed sales.
  2. Vienna homes took a median of 47 days to sell in September 2026 per Redfin, 15 days longer than a year earlier, and 24.0 percent sold above list price.
  3. Redfin's September 2026 sale-to-list ratio for Vienna was 98.8 percent, down about one point from September 2025, so the typical buyer paid slightly under the asking price.
  4. Zillow's Home Value Index put the typical Vienna home at $1,161,512 at the end of September 2026, up 2.6 percent year over year.
  5. Zillow's September 2026 typical values were $1,056,003 in ZIP 22180, $1,101,543 in 22181 and $1,253,981 in 22182, so one Vienna mailing address can sit in three different price bands.
  6. Fairfax County's Department of Tax Administration verified 216 sales inside the Town of Vienna in 2025 at a median of $1,693,759, up from 180 sales at a median of $1,539,000 in 2024.
  7. The public record does not agree on one Vienna price: county-verified sales inside the town had a median of $1,950,000 for January through September 2026, far above Redfin's $1,356,854 September median for its Vienna area.
  8. Active listings across Fairfax County were up 36 percent year over year at the end of September 2026, per ShowingTime data reported by FFXnow, the same month Vienna's Redfin market time stretched to 47 days.
  9. Residential assessments inside the town rose 6.8 percent for 2026, according to the town's FY2027 budget figures, ahead of the 3.99 percent countywide average.
  10. Ken, licensed in Virginia since 1988, counts Vienna with Oakton and the Fair Oaks section of Fairfax among the three core markets of his practice.
02History & Heritage
  1. Col. Charles Broadwater built a home inside today's town limits in 1754, and his son-in-law John Hunter named his 1767 tobacco plantation Ayr Hill after his native county in Scotland.
  2. The village was called Ayr Hill for nearly a century until the Hendricks, who arrived in 1854, had it renamed Vienna after their hometown in upstate New York, now Phelps.
  3. The Alexandria, Loudoun & Hampshire Railroad reached Vienna in 1859; reorganized as the Washington & Old Dominion in 1912, it ended passenger service in 1951 and freight service in 1968.
  4. On June 17, 1861, Confederate troops ambushed a Union train at Vienna, a clash the marker at Church Street and Dominion Road calls the first railroad battle in history.
  5. The Freeman Store at 131 Church Street NE was built in 1859 as the Lydecker Store, served both armies during the Civil War and was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2012.
  6. George W. Hunter Sr. acquired the grist mill and sawmill that gave Hunter Mill Road its name in 1831, and Civil War Trails markers now stand where the road crosses the W&OD Trail.
  7. Vienna incorporated as a town in 1890 with about 300 people, and Orrin T. Hine served as its first mayor until his death in 1899.
  8. Money and King, founded by Howard Money in 1881, is the town's oldest continuous business, and the Freeman Store and the 1859 depot still anchor the Church Street end of downtown.
  9. The Vienna Volunteer Fire Department, organized in 1903 around a small hand-drawn chemical engine, is the oldest in Fairfax County.
  10. After World War II, stores moved from Church Street to Maple Avenue, the first modern shopping center opened in 1954, and the 1958 widening of Maple Avenue removed its Victorian homes and maple trees.
  11. Town sources disagree on when the Halloween Parade began: the parade page says the town has hosted it since 1946, while the town's history timeline lists 1940.
03Environmental & Geographic
  1. The Town of Vienna covers about 4.41 square miles of Piedmont at roughly 358 feet of elevation, about 5.5 miles southwest of the Potomac River.
  2. Wolftrap Creek, a Difficult Run tributary, drains north from the eastern part of town, while the Bear Branch of Accotink Creek drains south, so lots on opposite sides of Maple Avenue can feed different watersheds.
  3. Tree canopy covered 38.7 percent of the town in 2021, about 1,090 of 2,817 acres, and 13 percent less than in 2011 imagery, according to the canopy study reported by the Connection.
  4. Code Create Vienna sends demolitions to the town arborist for review, part of how the town manages its tree canopy through the rebuild cycle.
  5. Code Create Vienna applies a Chesapeake Bay Preservation Area overlay to Westwood Country Club, nearby neighborhoods and land along Branch Road SE, adding review for work near protected streams.
  6. Climate normals for 1991–2020 give Vienna a mean July high of 83.8 degrees, about 43.6 inches of precipitation and 18.5 inches of snow a year.
  7. County land records show a median lot of about 0.27 acre in Vienna Woods inside the town, against about 0.94 acre in Carriage Hill and Wendover in 22181.
  8. Revised preliminary FEMA flood maps for Fairfax County, issued in August 2024, were still not final as of September 2026, so lots near Wolftrap Creek or Accotink tributaries deserve a check of both map versions.
  9. Meadowlark Botanical Gardens' three lakes, Lake Caroline, Lake Lena and Lake Gardiner, were added by the mid-1980s on the former Means and Ware farm.
04Lifestyle & Culture
  1. Catherine Filene Shouse gave 100 acres of her farm to the federal government in 1966, creating Wolf Trap on Trap Road in 22182, now the nation's only national park dedicated to the performing arts.
  2. Wolf Trap's rebuilt Filene Center opened in 1984 after a 1982 fire, rising 13 stories with 7,028 seats, and The Barns at Wolf Trap were donated in 1981.
  3. NOVA Parks' 95-acre Meadowlark Botanical Gardens at 9750 Meadowlark Gardens Court began as a 74-acre gift from Gardiner Means and Caroline Ware in 1980 and officially opened in April 1987.
  4. Meadowlark added its Korean Bell Garden in 2012 and the Volgenau Conservatory in 2020, and it hosts the Winter Walk of Lights through the holiday season.
  5. The paved W&OD Trail runs 45 miles from Shirlington to Purcellville on the old railroad bed and passes through downtown Vienna beside the Freeman Store and the 1859 depot.
  6. Norfolk Southern donated caboose #503, dedicated on Church Street in 1990 for the town's centennial, and the depot at 231 Dominion Road NE now holds the Northern Virginia Model Railroaders' station museum.
  7. The Vienna Community Center on Cherry Street SE opened in 1966; town residents get priority registration for classes and camps, and nonresidents can still enroll.
  8. ViVa! Vienna was first held in 1984, and the Walk on the Hill tour of the Windover Heights Historic District dates to 1974.
  9. The Vienna Inn has served hot dogs and beer since 1960, the Town Green hosts theater and music performances, and Jammin' Java runs a coffeehouse and music club in town.
  10. Westwood Country Club at 800 Maple Avenue East is inside the town and appears among its principal employers, with 100–249 workers in the town's FY2025 financial report.
  11. Fairfax County's Patrick Henry Library in Vienna opened in 1971, and a library project in partnership with the town was on the May 2025 town and county committee agenda.
05Infrastructure & Access
  1. The Vienna Metro station, signed Vienna/Fairfax-GMU and the western end of the Orange Line, opened June 7, 1986, in the I-66 median at 9550 Saintsbury Drive, a Fairfax 22031 address outside the town.
  2. By OpenStreetMap routing, the north side of the Vienna station is about 2.1 miles by road from the Freeman Store on Church Street, or about 1.8 miles in a straight line.
  3. The Vienna station has 5,840 parking spaces and averaged 4,931 weekday riders in 2025, with Metrobus, Fairfax Connector and the City of Fairfax's CUE buses stopping there.
  4. Dunn Loring station at 2700 Gallows Road also opened in 1986, has about 2,000 parking spaces and sits roughly 3.2 miles by road from Church Street.
  5. Silver Line service is closest at Spring Hill station, 1576 Spring Hill Road in Tysons, which opened July 26, 2014, about 3.1 miles by road from the Freeman Store.
  6. Route 123 runs through downtown as Maple Avenue, and a town corridor study found 37 percent of Maple Avenue trips neither started nor ended in Vienna.
  7. I-66 serves the town at Exit 62, Nutley Street (Route 243), and the 22.5-mile I-66 Express Lanes outside the Beltway opened in November 2022.
  8. Free-flow road distances from Church Street run about 3.0 miles to Tysons Corner Center, 15.3 miles to the Pentagon, 15.2 miles to Dulles International and 18.8 miles to Reagan National, per OpenStreetMap routing.
  9. The town runs its own water system with nearly 5,600 customers, about a third of them outside town limits, and 131 miles of distribution pipe, buying its treated water wholesale from Fairfax Water.
  10. Under a 2012 contract Fairfax Water became the town's supplier for a $15.1 million capacity payment over a 50-year term; the county opened talks on the system's future in December 2023 with no transfer decided.
06Schools & Education
  1. Town of Vienna addresses are generally assigned to James Madison High School under FCPS 2026–27 attendance maps; boundary.fcps.edu remains the authoritative check for any single address.
  2. Outside the town, 22182 addresses split among Marshall, Madison, Langley and South Lakes high schools and 22181 between Madison and Oakton, so a Vienna mailing address alone does not set the school.
  3. James Madison High School opened in September 1959 at 2500 James Madison Drive in 22181, serves grades 9–12, added a three-story wing in spring 2022 and lists 30 Advanced Placement courses.
  4. Thoreau Middle School opened in 1960 at 2505 Cedar Lane, just outside the town limits, and serves most Vienna elementary areas, while the town's Westbriar Elementary area attends Kilmer Middle.
  5. Vienna Elementary at 128 Center Street South traces its site to 1872; its current building is dated 1922 in one account and 1923 in another and is described as the county's oldest public school building in continuous use.
  6. Louise Archer Elementary opened in fall 1939 at 324 Nutley Street NW as a three-room school designed by an architect with the Virginia State Board of Education.
  7. Flint Hill Elementary at 2444 Flint Hill Road opened September 6, 1955, as a ten-room school, added wings in 1960 and 1969, and completed a major renovation in May 1994.
  8. Marshall Road Elementary at 730 Marshall Road opened September 5, 1961, and Cunningham Park Elementary at 1001 Park Street SE opened September 5, 1967, after being called Vienna Woods Elementary during construction.
  9. Wolftrap Elementary at 1903 Beulah Road opened in 1968 under its present name after first being named Waverly, and it offers a Chinese language program, while Cunningham Park offers Spanish.
  10. George C. Marshall High School at 7731 Leesburg Pike opened in 1962, offers the International Baccalaureate Diploma Program and Career-related Program, and serves much of 22180 outside the town.
  11. Wolftrap Woods addresses in 22182 are assigned to Cooper Middle and Langley High, and Wolftrap Meadows to Kilmer Middle and Marshall High, though both carry Vienna mailing addresses.
07Land, Development & Zoning
  1. The Town Council approved the Maple Avenue Commercial (MAC) zone in September 2014 with a 35-foot cap next to homes and a 20-foot setback for wider sidewalks, street trees and outdoor dining.
  2. After a moratorium imposed in 2018, the council repealed MAC on a 4–3 vote on June 1, 2020, and set aside $250,000 for a consultant to rewrite the zoning code.
  3. Vienna Market at 245 Maple Avenue West, the former Marco Polo restaurant site, was only the second project approved under MAC, in May 2018, and delivered 44 condominium townhomes and 8,200 square feet of ground-floor retail.
  4. Code Create Vienna, adopted unanimously on October 23, 2023, and effective January 1, 2024, was the town's first comprehensive zoning rewrite since 1969.
  5. Most of the town is zoned RS-10, RS-12.5 or RS-16, single-unit districts named for minimum lot sizes of 10,000, 12,500 and 16,000 square feet.
  6. The Avenue Center and Gateway South districts now allow 42-foot buildings that step down to 35 feet within 95 feet of a residential lot, while the Mill District along Mill Street NE keeps a 45-foot limit.
  7. The Residential Multi-Use district permits townhouses, duplexes, multi-unit buildings and cottage courts, with required open space of 30 to 40 percent depending on the housing type.
  8. Single-family lots in the town have long been capped at 25 percent coverage for the house, driveway, patios and courts, and added outdoor living coverage requires an approved stormwater mitigation option.
  9. Any project disturbing more than 2,500 square feet, including a new house, needs a town large-scale permit with grading, lot coverage and height calculations, and demolitions are reviewed by the town arborist.
  10. Fairfax County dwelling records show 1,430 of 5,501 houses inside the town carry a build year of 2010 or later, about 26 percent, the clearest public measure of Vienna's teardown and rebuild cycle.
  11. Between 2014 and 2025, county records show 73 to 112 dwellings a year completed inside the Town of Vienna, where the Census median year built is still 1971.
08Demographics
  1. The Town of Vienna had an estimated 16,412 residents in 5,553 households in the Census Bureau's ACS 2020–2024 estimates.
  2. Owner-occupied homes make up 83.7 percent of occupied units in the town, compared with 68.6 percent across Fairfax County, per 2020–2024 ACS.
  3. Detached houses account for 78.3 percent of the town's housing units, against 45.5 percent countywide; townhouses add 10.3 percent and buildings of two or more units about 11.4 percent.
  4. Median household income in the town is $216,953, with a margin of error of $22,121, compared with $153,637 for Fairfax County, per 2020–2024 ACS.
  5. In the town, 35.4 percent of workers report working from home, and commuters average 26.3 minutes each way, per 2020–2024 ACS.
  6. ACS 2020–2024 educational attainment data show 74.7 percent of the town's adult population with a bachelor's degree or higher, versus 65.0 percent countywide.
  7. The three Vienna ZIPs reach well beyond the town: ZCTA 22180 counts 26,568 residents, 22181 counts 15,760 and 22182 counts 27,783 in 2020–2024 ACS.
  8. Buildings of 20 or more units make up 15.3 percent of housing in 22180 and 14.5 percent in 22182, against 1.7 percent inside the town, per 2020–2024 ACS.
09Investment & Value
  1. Property inside the Town of Vienna carries two real estate taxes: Fairfax County's FY2027 rate of $1.12 per $100 of assessed value plus the town's 19 cents, adopted May 18, 2026.
  2. At those rates a home assessed at $1,000,000 inside the town owes about $13,100 a year in county and town real estate tax, against $11,200 for the same assessment outside the town limits.
  3. The council trimmed the town rate from 19.5 cents, saving the average homeowner about $40, but the average town bill still rises about $80 because assessments climbed.
  4. Half of the town's owner-occupied homes, 50.6 percent, are valued at $1 million or more, versus 21.4 percent countywide, and the town's Census median value is $1,008,800, per the 2020–2024 ACS.
  5. County sales records coded as land purchases later improved, the typical teardown pattern, numbered 37 in the town in 2024 at a median of $910,000 and 40 in 2025 at a median of $1,000,000.
  6. Navy Federal Credit Union, founded in 1933 and headquartered on Follin Lane SE inside the town since 1977, had about 5,600 of its roughly 25,300 employees at its Vienna location as of March 2026.
  7. Census figures show 19.4 percent of the town's housing built in 2010 or later, more than double the county's 8.5 percent, so new rebuilds stand beside 1950s and 1960s ramblers on many streets.
  8. In Vienna Woods, 529 of 1,373 county dwelling records carry a build year of 2000 or later, while a quarter of the houses still date to 1958 or earlier.
  9. Real estate taxes supply about 44 percent of the town's general fund in the FY2027 budget, and each cent of the town rate raises about $811,000.
10Hyper-Local Detail
  1. Addresses ending in NE, NW, SE or SW are inside the Town of Vienna; most other Vienna mailing addresses are in unincorporated Fairfax County with county services only.
  2. County parcel records place 5,916 town parcels in 22180 but only 46 in 22181 and 5 in 22182, so nearly all of 22181 and 22182 lies outside the town.
  3. Lakevale Estates in 22181, outside the town, was built mostly in 1966–1968 on lots of about 0.35 acre and has a community pool at 2556 Oak Valley Drive.
  4. Glencannon, off Garrett Street, dates to 1969–1971 on lots near half an acre, and Oakton Glen along Oakton Glen Drive was built around 1978–1980; both use 22181 and feed Flint Hill, Thoreau and Madison.
  5. Carriage Hill, laid out along Carrhill Road in the mid-1960s, and Wendover, built from about 1982 to 1986 along Spring Branch and Wendover drives, both have median lots near 0.94 acre.
  6. Eudora, built in the early 1970s on quarter-acre lots, and Clarks Crossing, built in the mid-1970s on half-acre lots along Batten Hollow Road and Abbey Oak Drive, are in 22182 and assigned to Wolftrap Elementary.
  7. Miller Heights and Windsong, often grouped with Vienna, carry Oakton addresses in ZIP 22124 in county records and sit on lots near 0.9 acre.
  8. Abbotsford Drive runs through Waverly, Eudora and Beulah Terrace in 22182 and Tanglewood in 22181.
  9. Homes in the Windover Heights Historic District in northwest Vienna need a Certificate of Appropriateness for exterior changes beyond in-kind repair, including new paint colors.
  10. Ken grew up in Vienna, attending Flint Hill Elementary and Thoreau Middle School, and later bought his first home next door in Oakton.

Why Ken

Why Ken Tully for Vienna

Raised in town

Ken's Vienna knowledge started in its schools long before his license, and it shows in how he reads a street.

Sellers hear the truth

If a list price is too high, Ken says so, because an overpriced Vienna listing loses momentum that is hard to win back.

Selling and buying in one move

He has run simultaneous sales and purchases, including a pandemic-era move built around a 45-day rent-back.

A network built at home

His contractor, inspector and lender contacts come from a career rooted here, which helps on houses from the 1960s and 1970s.

Questions

Questions about buying and selling in Vienna

Is my Vienna address inside the Town of Vienna?

Probably not, if it is in 22181 or 22182. County parcel records place 5,916 town parcels in 22180 but only 46 in 22181 and 5 in 22182. Addresses inside the town end in NE, NW, SE or SW; most other Vienna addresses are unincorporated Fairfax County.

What are property taxes inside the Town of Vienna?

Town property pays Fairfax County's FY2027 rate of $1.12 per $100 of assessed value plus the town's 19 cents, adopted May 18, 2026. A home assessed at $1 million inside the town owes about $13,100 a year, against about $11,200 for the same assessment outside town limits.

What services do town residents get?

Town residents get weekly trash, recycling and brush pickup, vacuum leaf collection in the fall, town snow plowing, the Vienna Police Department, priority registration at the Vienna Community Center, and water and sewer from the town's own utility.

Which high school serves a Vienna home?

Town of Vienna addresses are generally assigned to James Madison High, while 22181 splits between Madison and Oakton and 22182 splits among Marshall, Madison, Langley and South Lakes. Ken checks each address in the FCPS Boundary Locator before an offer.

How close is Vienna to Metro?

The Vienna/Fairfax-GMU station, the western end of the Orange Line, sits in the I-66 median about 2.1 miles by road from the Freeman Store on Church Street, with 5,840 parking spaces. The nearest Silver Line stop is Spring Hill in Tysons, about 3.1 miles from Church Street.

Are older Vienna homes being torn down and rebuilt?

Yes. County dwelling records show 1,430 of the 5,501 houses inside the town built in 2010 or later, and sales of lots later rebuilt numbered 40 in 2025 at a median of $1 million. Town rules cap lot coverage at 25 percent and require a large-scale permit and arborist review.

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The planned community founded in 1964, with Reston Association governance, five village centers, Reston Town Center and two Silver Line stations. That site explains the layered HOA structure, the trail and lake system and Reston's special tax district.

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