Clinchco, Virginia.
Typical home $105,715 (+13.1% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$332 (+149%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $12,225 +13%
- $93,489$105,715 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $27,399 +35%
- $78,316$105,715 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.
- Clinchco$555
- Virginia$2,164
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 12 years.
Typical home values in Clinchco, VA rose 13.1% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Clinchco, Dickenson County, Virginia
Clinchco is a town of 244 people in Dickenson County. Unemployment in Dickenson County was 4.7% in August 2026, and the county had 1.7% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Dickenson County work in schools and health care, then professional services.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Clinchco is a very small town in the coalfield hills of Dickenson County, in far southwest Virginia, where the population is among the smallest of any town in the state. Homes here cost far less than the national typical, and household incomes across Dickenson County are modest. Few adults hold a four-year degree, and very few people work from home.
Work. Most residents who work do so in schools, hospitals and social care, with professional and business services, shops and government following. Across Dickenson County, the largest workplaces include Dickenson County Public Schools, Dickenson Community Hospital and K VA T Food Stores. Unemployment in the county is a little lower than a year ago, though the county has fewer jobs than it did the year before.
Things to do. The Ralph Stanley Museum is a short drive away, and the Cranes Nest River and the McClure River are close by for anyone who likes time near water. Breaks Interstate Park, a protected area, is a longer drive. Winters are cold, with January highs a little above freezing and lows below it, and a good deal of snow. Summers are warm, and rain and melted snow add up to a fair amount over the year.
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- 3%of adults have a degree
- 2%work from home
What people in Dickenson County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Dickenson County had 3,333 jobs in 2025, 1.7% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 42° and lows near 22°; warmest in July, with highs near 82° and lows near 61°. About 38 inches of snow and 49 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Clintwood 1W weather station, 8 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Dickenson County
- Dickenson County Public SchoolsSchool district382FTE
- K VA T Food StoresSupermarket129
- American HealthCareNursing care facilities102
- Southwest Virginia Regional Jail Authority Haysi FacilityJails87
- McFall ExcavatingConstruction management, water and sewer line50
- Dickenson Community HospitalCritical access hospital43FTE
- K & K Repair and ConstructionPetrochemical plant construction23
- Virginia Department of TransportationHighway repair maintenance21
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 6 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 412 people in all across the county; Clinchco has none of its own. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24) and hospitals from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023); 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
- Strong windVery high
- WildfireRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- LandslidesRelatively moderate
- Winter weatherRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Clinchco’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 Dickenson County.
Clinchco home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Clinchco$105,715
- 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.
- Clinchco8
Zip codes with a Clinchco address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Clinchco — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.