Bent Mountain, Virginia.
Typical home $344,032 (+5.3% in a year). Roanoke, VA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,091 (+153%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $17,189 +5%
- $326,843$344,032 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $103,989 +43%
- $240,043$344,032 since Sep 2021
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.
- Bent Mountain$1,806
- Virginia$2,164
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 10 years.
Typical home values in Bent Mountain, VA rose 5.3% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Bent Mountain, Roanoke County, Virginia
The Census does not count Bent Mountain on its own, so the figures here are Roanoke County's. Half the county's households earn more than $83,709 a year and half less; 7% of the county's people live below the poverty line. 76% of the county's homes are lived in by their owners and 24% are rented. Unemployment in Roanoke County was 3.2% in August 2026, and the county had about as many jobs in 2025 as the year before. The most people in Roanoke County work in schools and health care, then professional services.
Written by AI Claude Haiku 5.5 wrote this on 22 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Bent Mountain is a community in Roanoke County, in the mountains of western Virginia. Across the county, the median age is higher than the national one, and most homes are lived in by their owners. Household incomes are comfortable, and fewer people live below the poverty line than across the country.
Work. Across Roanoke County, unemployment is low and has held steady over the past year, and the number of jobs was about the same as the year before. Most residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, professional and business services, shops, or manufacturing. Commutes are short compared with those in big cities, and a fair number of residents work from home.
Things to do. Dixie Caverns, a tourist attraction, is a short drive away. Pedlar Hills Natural Area Preserve, a protected natural area, is also a short drive away. The Appalachian Trail is a longer drive away and offers long footpaths through the mountains.
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- 39,725households
- 43.5median age
- 37%of adults have a degree
- 7%below the poverty line
- 22 mintypical commute
- 15%work from home
What people in Roanoke County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Roanoke County had 37,434 jobs in 2025, about as many as the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 40° and lows near 22°; warmest in July, with highs near 80° and lows near 61°. About 18 inches of snow and 50 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Copper Hill weather station, 5 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Roanoke County
- Roanoke County Public SchoolsSchool district2,176FTE
- Elbit Systems of America - Night VisionNight vision optical device manufacturing780
- Friendship - North CampusSkilled nursing facilities554
- TMEIC Corporation AmericasEngineering services421
- BGDC DistributionPrivate warehousing and storage, refrigerated350
- Hollins UniversityUniversity or college327
- P1 TechnologiesCoaxial connectors manufacturing318
- Friendship Richfield LivingSkilled nursing facilities314
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 88 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 10,204 people in all. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24) and colleges from IPEDS (NCES, 2023–24); FTE marks full-time equivalent staff. 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
- LandslidesRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively moderate
- Winter weatherRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms across Roanoke County, 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 Roanoke County and the Roanoke, VA metro.
Bent Mountain home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Bent Mountain$344,032
- 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.
Market heat, inside the city limits
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Bent Mountain7
Zip codes with a Bent Mountain address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Bent Mountain — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.