Blairs, Virginia.
Typical home $201,203 (+2.9% in a year). Danville, VA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$540 (+105%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $5,749 +3%
- $195,454$201,203 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $38,706 +24%
- $162,498$201,203 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.
- Blairs$1,056
- Virginia$2,164
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 16 years.
Typical home values in Blairs, VA rose 2.9% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Blairs, Pittsylvania County, Virginia
Blairs, in Pittsylvania County, had 841 people in the 2020 census. Unemployment in Pittsylvania County was 3.9% in August 2026, and the county had 1.1% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Pittsylvania 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Blairs is a small community in Pittsylvania County, Virginia, with a population small enough that most people know one another by sight. Typical home values here sit at a moderate level, and household incomes across the county run below the national picture. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month and only a little snow, while summers turn properly warm by July. Rain and melted snow come steadily through the year.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, shops and the building trades also employing a good share. Across Pittsylvania County, some of the largest workplaces are Pittsylvania County Public Schools, Caesars Virginia and Tyson Farms. Unemployment across the county has eased slightly over the past year, and the number of jobs has grown a little.
Things to do. For time outdoors, White Oak Mountain Wildlife Management Area is a protected area a short drive away, and the Banister River is a river a short drive away as well. Smith Mountain Lake State Park is a protected area a longer drive away. Race fans can head to Virginia International Raceway, a race track a longer drive away.
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- 407households
- 9%below the poverty line
What people in Pittsylvania County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Pittsylvania County had 13,000 jobs in 2025, 1.1% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 47° and lows near 24°; warmest in July, with highs near 86° and lows near 65°. About 6 inches of snow and 48 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Chatham weather station, 9 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Pittsylvania County
- Pittsylvania County Public SchoolsSchool district1,425FTE
- Caesars VirginiaHotels, resort, with casinos1,293
- Tyson FarmsPoultry processing629
- Unique Industries - BlairsIndustrial supplies, disposable plastics, paper, merchant wholesalers541
- Intertape Polymer Group325
- Virginia Dept. Of CorrectionsCorrectional institutions296
- JTI Leaf Services (US)Tobacco leaf processing and aging278
- Universal Health ServicesRes mental health substance abuse facilit193
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 43 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 5,934 people in all across the county; Blairs has none of its own. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (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
- Winter weatherRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Blairs’ census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, very 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 Pittsylvania County and the Danville, VA metro.
Blairs home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Blairs$201,203
- Virginia$412,252
- United States$366,157
Levy by levy, and a check of one home’s own bill, the site covers Ohio’s property tax.
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.
- Blairs5
Zip codes with a Blairs address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Blairs — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.