Cedar Bluff, Virginia.
Typical home $191,873 (+4.5% in a year). Bluefield, WV-VA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$540 (+116%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $8,276 +5%
- $183,596$191,873 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $46,435 +32%
- $145,438$191,873 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.
- Cedar Bluff$1,007
- Virginia$2,164
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 13 years.
Typical home values in Cedar Bluff, VA rose 4.5% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Cedar Bluff, Tazewell County, Virginia
Cedar Bluff is a town of 1,069 people in Tazewell County. Unemployment in Tazewell County was 5.0% in August 2026, and the county had 2.5% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in schools and health care, then shops.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Cedar Bluff is a very small town in Tazewell County, in the mountains of southwest Virginia. Few adults here hold a four-year degree, and a good share of residents live below the poverty line. Winters are cold, with January highs well below freezing at night and a fair amount of snow, while summers are warm and the year brings plenty of rain.
Work. Residents mostly work in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, in government, and in restaurants, hotels and entertainment. Across Tazewell County, the largest workplaces include Tazewell County Public Schools, Clinch Valley Medical Center and Walmart. The county has seen fewer jobs than a year earlier, and unemployment is a little higher than many would like, though it has eased slightly over the past year. Most people have a fairly short commute to work, and very few work from home.
Things to do. For time outdoors, Hungry Mother State Park is a protected area a longer drive away, and Berwind Lake Wildlife Management Area is another, also a longer drive away. Anyone interested in history could visit the Saltville Battlefields Historic District, an archaeological site that is likewise a longer drive from town.
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- 590households
- 15%of adults have a degree
- 17%below the poverty line
- 24 mintypical commute
- 3%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Tazewell County had 13,374 jobs in 2025, 2.5% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 44° and lows near 23°; warmest in July, with highs near 83° and lows near 62°. About 18 inches of snow and 45 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Richlands weather station, 2 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Tazewell County
- Tazewell County Public SchoolsSchool district920FTE
- Clinch Valley Medical CenterGeneral hospital504FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters392
- Southwest Virginia Community CollegeTwo-year college349
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters324
- Virginia Department Of CorrectionsCorrectional institutions299
- Bluefield UniversityUniversity or college199
- American HealthCareNursing care facilities165
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 41 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 4,534 people in all across the county; Cedar Bluff has one of its own. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24), hospitals from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023) 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
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- LandslidesRelatively moderate
- Winter weatherrelatively high in parts of Cedar BluffRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Cedar Bluff’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively moderate. 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 Tazewell County and the Bluefield, WV-VA metro.
Cedar Bluff home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Cedar Bluff$191,873
- Virginia$412,252
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 5 Cedar Bluff listings — the market is roughly in balance.
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
Share of listings with a price cut
The early-warning dial: sellers cut when buyers stop reaching. Rising cuts cool a market months before prices notice.
- Cedar Bluff20.22%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Cedar Bluff25
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Cedar Bluff7
Zip codes with a Cedar Bluff address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Cedar Bluff — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.
Zip codes in Cedar Bluff
| Zip activate to sort by Zip | Place activate to sort by Place | Population sorted descending, activate to sort ascending | Rent activate to sort by Rent | Home value activate to sort by Home value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 24609 | Cedar Bluff | 6,923 | — | $154,686 |
| 24637 | Pounding Mill | 3,778 | — | $203,569 |