VA Loan Limits By County
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VA Loan Limits By County

What Are VA Loan Limits?

The VA loan is one of my favorite benefits afforded to service members—especially when used to house hack—but there are still limitations to what it can purchase.

The Department of Veterans Affairs limits the amount you can borrow depending on what county you are purchasing a home in. The standard VA loan limit is $647,200 across most U.S. Counties in 2021—up from the $548,250 limit in 2021!

There are more expensive counties, which are allowed higher limits. At the high end, this limit is currently $970,800, which is a large increase from the limit of $822,375 in 2021.

It is important to note that these limits don’t cap the amount you can borrow, but rather the amount you can borrow with 0% down. Once you go above your remaining entitlement you will be required to pay 25% down for every dollar over that remaining eligibility.

Wait, I Thought The VA Loan No Longer Had Any Limits.

Yes and no.

As of January 1, 2020, there is no longer a limit on your first home purchase! You can literally borrow as much money—with 0% down—as your bank will loan you based on the debt-to-income ratio and your personal financial situation.

As of December 2021, the largest purchase I have seen a veteran make with 0% down was a $1,930,000 duplex on Venice Beach!

Once you have used the VA loan, these loan limits come into effect.

For more information on how your certificate of eligibility (COE) plays into this, check out this article.

Current VA Loan Limits

Here are the current VA Loan Limits by County for 2022. Scroll through to find the county/state that you’re buying that next home in, and use this as a guide to determine how much home you can buy, based on your remaining entitlement.

StateCountiesVA Loan Limit
AlabamaAll Areas$647,200
AlaskaAleutians East$970,800
Aleutians West$970,800
Anchorage$970,800
Bethel$970,800
Bristol Bay$970,800
Denali$970,800
Dillingham$970,800
Fairbnaks North Star$970,800
Haines$970,800
Hoonah-angoon Census Area$970,800
Juneau$970,800
Kenai Peninsula$970,800
Ketchikan Gateway$970,800
Kodiak Island$970,800
Kuslivak Census Area$970,800
Lake And Peninsula$970,800
Matanuska Sursitna$970,800
Nome$970,800
North Slope$970,800
Northwest Arctic$970,800
Prince of Wales-hyder Census Area$970,800
Sitka$970,800
Skagway$970,800
Southeasy Fairbanks$970,800
Valdez Cordova$970,800
Wrangell$970,800
Yakutat$970,800
Yukon Koyukuk$970,800
All Other Areas$647,200
ArizonaAll Areas$647,200
ArkansasAll Areas$647,200
CaliforniaAlameda$970,800
Contra Costa$970,800
El Dorado$675,050
Los Angeles$970,800
Marin$970,800
Monterey$854,450
Napa$897,000
Orange$970,800
Placer$675,050
Sacramento$675,050
San Benito$970,800
San Diego$879,750
San Francisco$970,800
San Luis Obispo$805,000
San Mateo$970,800
Santa Barbara$783,150
Santa Clara$970,800
Santa Cruz$970,800
Sonoma$764,750
Ventura$851,000
Yolo$675,050
All Other Areas$647,200
ColoradoAdams$684,250
Arapahoe$684,250
Boulder$654,350
Broomfield$684,250
Clear Creek$684,250
Denver$684,250
Douglas$684,250
Eagle$862,500
Elbert$684,250
Garfield$856,750
Gilpin$684,250
Jefferson$684,250
Lake$684,250
Park$684,250
Pitkin$856,750
Routt$678,500
San Miguel$756,700
Summit$822,375
All Other Areas$647,200
ConnecticutFairfield$695,750
All Other Areas$647,200
DelawareAll Areas$647,200
FloridaMonroe$710,700
All Areas$647,200
GeorgiaAll Areas$647,200
HawaiiHawaii$970,800
Honolulu$970,800
Kalawao$970,800
Kauai$970,800
Maui$970,800
IdahoBlaine$648,600
Camas$648,600
Teton$970,800
All Other Areas$647,200
IllinoisAll Areas$647,200
IndianaAll Areas$647,200
IowaAll Areas$647,200
KansasAll Areas$647,200
KentuckyAll Areas$647,200
LouisianaAll Areas$647,200
MaineAll Areas$647,200
MarylandCalvert$970,800
Charles$970,800
Frederick$970,800
Montgomery$970,800
Prince George's$970,800
All Other Areas$647,200
MassachusettsDukes$970,800
Essex$770,500
Middlesex$770,500
Nantucket$970,800
Norfolk$770,500
Plymouth$770,500
Suffolk$770,500
All Other Areas$647,200
MichiganAll Areas$647,200
MinnesotaAll Areas$647,200
MississippiAll Areas$647,200
MissouriAll Areas$647,200
MontanaAll Areas$647,200
NebraskaAll Areas$647,200
NevadaAll Areas$647,200
New HampshireRockingham$770,500
Strafford$770,500
All Other Areas$647,200
New JerseyBergen$970,800
Essex$970,800
Hudson$970,800
Hunterdon$970,800
Middlesex$970,800
Monmout$970,800
Morris$970,800
Ocean$970,800
Passaic$970,800
Somerset$970,800
Sussex$970,800
Union$970,800
All Other Areas$647,200
New MexicoAll Areas$647,200
New YorkBronx$970,800
Dutchess$726,525
Kings$970,800
Nassau$970,800
New York$970,800
Orange$726,525
Putnam$970,800
Queens$970,800
Richmond$970,800
Rockland$970,800
Suffolk$970,800
Westchester$970,800
All Other Areas$647,200
North CarolinaAll Other Areas$647,200
North DakotaAll Areas$647,200
OhioAll Areas$647,200
OklahomaAll Areas$647,200
OregonAll Areas$647,200
PennsylvaniaPike$970,800
All Other Areas$647,200
Rhode IslandAll Areas$647,200
South CarolinaAll Areas$647,200
South DakotaAll Areas$647,200
TennesseeCannon$694,600
Cheatham$694,600
Davidson$694,600
Dickson$694,600
Macon$694,600
Maury$694,600
Robertson$694,600
Rutherford$694,600
Smith$694,600
Sumner$694,600
Trousdale$694,600
Williamson$694,600
Wilson$694,600
All Other Areas$647,200
TexasAll Areas$647,200
UtahSummit$970,800
Wasatch$970,800
All Other Areas$647,200
VermontAll Areas$647,200
VirginiaAlexandria City$970,800
Arlington$970,800
Clarke$970,800
Culpeper$970,800
Fairfax$970,800
Fairfax City$970,800
Falls Church City$970,800
Fauquier$970,800
Fredericksburg City$970,800
Loudoun$970,800
Madison$970,800
Manassas Park City$970,800
Prince William$970,800
Rappahannock$970,800
Stafford$970,800
Warren$970,800
All Other Areas$647,200
WashingtonKing$891,250
Pierce$776,250
Snohomish$776,250
All Other Areas$647,200
West VirginiaAll Areas$822,375
WisconsinAll Areas$647,200
WyomingTeton$822,375
All Other Areas$647,200
District of ColumbiaDistrict of Columbia$970,800
GuamGuam$970,800
Virgin IslandsSt Croix Island$970,800
St John Island$970,800
St Thomas Island$970,800

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VA Loan Limit Example

(I left the math in the below section in 2021 loan limits because I didn't want to have to rework the equations every year the limits update)

Let’s say that your first VA home loan was $200k, which means you used $50k worth of your COE. If you’re looking to purchase your second home in San Diego county—where the 2021 VA loan limit was $753,250—you will have a remaining COE of $138,312.5 which would allow you a maximum purchase price of $553,250 before you would be required to put any money down.

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$753,250 / 4 = $188,312.5 COE – the $50k entitlement used on your first home = $138,312.5 COE (or $553,250 in purchasing power before you would be required to put 25% down for every additional dollar you borrow).

There are ways to recoup your eligibility, as our article on buying a second home with the VA loan mentions.

Please note that the VA Loan Limits have been increasing every year for a while now, but that doesn't mean they can't stay the same or even decrease depending on home prices in your area. This is a living breathing document, and every year I intend to update this document to the most current year.

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