Atkins, Virginia.
Typical home $158,585 (+5.2% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$337 (+68%) since Feb 2022.
- 1 year
- Up $7,808 +5%
- $150,777$158,585 since Sep 2025
Monthly payment to buy the typical home
Home value × that month's 30-year mortgage rate, 20% down, principal and interest. This is the line households feel: prices and rates compound each other.
- Atkins$832
- Virginia$2,164
- United States$1,922
Typical home values in Atkins, VA rose 5.2% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Atkins, Smyth County, Virginia
Atkins, in Smyth County, had 1,121 people in the 2020 census. Half its households earn more than $48,500 a year and half less, against $49,883 across Smyth County; 8% of its people live below the poverty line. Unemployment in Smyth County was 4.3% in August 2026, and the county had 3.6% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Smyth County work in schools and health care, then manufacturing.
Written by AI Claude Sonnet 5.5 wrote this on 23 October 2026 from the figures here, a list of nearby places and what it knows. It can be wrong or out of date.
What it’s like
The place. Atkins is a small community in Smyth County, Virginia, where most people know their neighbors by name. Household incomes run a little below the county's, and homes here cost less than in many parts of the country. Winters are cold and snowy, with January the coldest month, and summers are mild, with July the warmest.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, in manufacturing, in shops, and in restaurants and hotels. The largest workplaces in Atkins include Utility Trailer Manufacturing Co, which builds car-hauling trailers, and Speyside Bourbon Cooperage, which makes wooden barrels. Commutes are short, and nobody here works from home. Across Smyth County, there are somewhat fewer jobs than a year earlier.
Things to do. Bear Creek National Scenic Area, a protected area, lies in or beside town, and Hungry Mother State Park is a short drive away. The Lincoln Theatre is also a short drive off for an evening out. For a longer outing, Grayson Highlands State Park and the Mount Rogers National Recreation Area are both a longer drive away.
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- 13%of adults have a degree
- 8%below the poverty line
- 14 mintypical commute
- 0%work from home
What people in Smyth County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Smyth County had 11,230 jobs in 2025, 3.6% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 39° and lows near 21°; warmest in July, with highs near 79° and lows near 57°. About 47 inches of snow and 48 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Burkes Garden weather station, 16 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Atkins
- Utility Trailer Manufacturing CoAutomobile transporter trailers, multi-car, manufacturing905
- Speyside Bourbon CooperageBarrels, wood, coopered, manufacturing158
- Mayville Engineering CompanyFrames and handles, handbag and luggage, metal, manufacturing120
- same as EstablishmentMachine shops32
- UniFirst MARIONIndustrial launderer21
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 5 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,236 people in all. Not listed: many offices and banks, which need not report to OSHA; military bases, whose staff OPM withholds; and, in about half the states, city and county governments.
Natural hazards
- Cold wavesVery high
- DroughtRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively moderate
- Winter weatherRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Atkins’ census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively low. It is meant for planning, not a substitute for a local risk assessment or a flood map: FEMA’s index.
From the U.S. Census Bureau’s 2020 census and its American Community Survey (2020–2024 five-year estimates), and the Bureau of Labor Statistics. A survey, so each figure has a margin of error, and figures it is not sure of are left out. More on Smyth County.
Atkins home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Atkins$158,585
- Virginia$412,252
- United States$366,157
When this market ran hot
Each cell is that month's year-on-year home-value growth. Read left to right, top row is the latest year — the 2021–22 band is the boom.
Zip codes with a Atkins address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Atkins — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.