Catawba, Virginia.
Typical home $358,987 (+7.5% in a year). Roanoke, VA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,086 (+136%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $25,150 +8%
- $333,837$358,987 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $94,303 +36%
- $264,684$358,987 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.
- Catawba$1,884
- Virginia$2,164
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 11 years.
Typical home values in Catawba, VA rose 7.5% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Catawba, Craig County, Virginia
The Census does not count Catawba on its own, so the figures here are Craig County's. Half the county's households earn more than $69,057 a year and half less; 14% of the county's people live below the poverty line. 84% of the county's homes are lived in by their owners and 16% are rented. Unemployment in Craig County was 3.6% in August 2026, and the county had 0.5% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Craig County work in schools and health care, then manufacturing.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Catawba sits in the mountains of western Virginia, in Craig County, where most homes are lived in by their owners rather than rented. Figures for the town are the county's, since the Census does not count Catawba on its own. Winters are cold and bring snow, while summers are warm and the year is fairly wet, so the seasons are clearly felt.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, in manufacturing, in professional and business services, and in restaurants, hotels and entertainment. Unemployment across Craig County has eased over the past year, and jobs there have grown a little. Most people still travel a fair distance to work, and only a minority work from home.
Things to do. The Appalachian Trail is a long-distance hiking path that is a short drive away, and it is the best known of the places nearby. Dixie Caverns, a tourist attraction a short drive away, offers a look at underground rock formations. Mountain Lake, a lake a longer drive away, is a quieter option for a day out on the water.
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- 1,735households
- 46.3median age
- 19%of adults have a degree
- 14%below the poverty line
- 36 mintypical commute
- 17%work from home
What people in Craig County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Craig County had 764 jobs in 2025, 0.5% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 47° and lows near 29°; warmest in July, with highs near 88° and lows near 67°. About 15 inches of snow and 43 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Roanoke Regional Airport weather station, 14 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Craig County
- Craig County Public SchoolsSchool district107FTE
- Craig Botetourt Electric CooperativeDistribution of electric power26
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 1 workplace with 20 or more staff, 26 people in all. 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
FEMA rates every natural hazard here relatively low or very low.
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms across Craig County, 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 Craig County and the Roanoke, VA metro.
Catawba home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Catawba$358,987
- 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.
- Catawba10
Zip codes with a Catawba address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Catawba — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.