Cana, Virginia.
Typical home $141,870 (+0.3% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$286 (+62%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $444 +0%
- $141,426$141,870 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Down $3,501 -2%
- $145,371$141,870 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.
- Cana$745
- Virginia$2,164
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, prices here aren't rising.
Typical home values in Cana, VA rose 0.3% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Cana, Carroll County, Virginia
Cana, in Carroll County, had 1,243 people in the 2020 census. Unemployment in Carroll County was 3.6% in August 2026, and the county had about as many jobs in 2025 as the year before. The most people in Carroll 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Cana is a small community in Carroll County, Virginia, in the hills of the southwestern part of the state. Homes here sell for less than in much of the country, and a four-year degree is held by fewer adults than in the nation as a whole. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month, highs well above freezing in the afternoon but nights that dip below it, and only light snowfall; summers are warm, with July the warmest, and the year brings plenty of rain.
Work. People in and around Cana work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by manufacturing, shops and restaurants and hotels. Across Carroll County, some of the largest workplaces are Carroll County Public Schools, Mohawk Industries and Turman Sawmill. Very few people work from home, and the typical commute is a fairly long one by the standards of a small place.
Things to do. Lovill's Creek Lake is in or beside town, and the rivers Brushy Fork, Huntington Branch and Benson Creek are a short drive away for time by the water. Farther afield, Hanging Rock State Park is a protected area reached by a longer drive, as is the Blue Ridge Music Center, a museum devoted to the region's music.
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- 24%of adults have a degree
- 26 mintypical commute
- 1%work from home
What people in Carroll County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Carroll County had 5,796 jobs in 2025, about as many as the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 47° and lows near 25°; warmest in July, with highs near 86° and lows near 63°. About 8 inches of snow and 50 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Mount Airy West weather station, 6 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Carroll County
- Carroll County Public SchoolsSchool district507FTE
- Mohawk IndustriesBacking127
- Turman SawmillSawmills126
- Lowe's Companies, INCHomecenter121
- Vanguard BRHousehold-type furniture, upholstered, manufacturing104
- Food LionGrocery stores93
- Hillsville Health and Rehab CenterNursing homes69
- American HealthCareNursing care facilities67
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 11 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 835 people in all across the county; Cana 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
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Cana’s 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 Carroll County.
Cana home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Cana$141,870
- 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.
- Cana13
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a Cana address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Cana — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.