Coeburn, Virginia.
Typical home $119,636 (+5.1% in a year). Big Stone Gap, VA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$357 (+132%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $5,848 +5%
- $113,788$119,636 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $28,006 +31%
- $91,630$119,636 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.
- Coeburn$628
- 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 Coeburn, VA rose 5.1% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Coeburn, Wise County, Virginia
Coeburn is a town of 1,598 people in Wise County. Unemployment in Wise County was 4.9% in August 2026, and the county had 0.1% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Wise County 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Coeburn is a small town in Wise County, in the mountains of far southwest Virginia. Residents are older than in the typical American community, and household incomes across the county run below the national picture. Homes here cost far less than in most of the country. Winters are cold and snowy, with a good deal of rain and melted snow through the year, and summers are warm without being hot.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, in restaurants and hotels, and in government. Across Wise County, the largest workplaces include Wise County Public Schools, Lonesome Pine Hospital and the University of Virginia's College at Wise. Relatively few adults hold a four-year degree, a typical commute is fairly short, and almost no one works from home.
Things to do. The Guest River and Oxbow Lake are a short drive away, and Little Stony Creek, a protected area, is close by as well. For a longer outing, Natural Tunnel State Park and Breaks Interstate Park are both a longer drive away and give a day among the mountains and woods.
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- 15%of adults have a degree
- 19%below the poverty line
- 19 mintypical commute
- 1%work from home
What people in Wise County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Wise County had 10,958 jobs in 2025, 0.1% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 43° and lows near 25°; warmest in July, with highs near 81° and lows near 61°. About 47 inches of snow and 52 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Wise 1SE weather station, 5 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Wise County
- Wise County Public SchoolsSchool district968FTE
- Wallens Ridge State PrisonPrisons465
- Virginia Department of CorrectionsPrisons456
- Lonesome Pine HospitalGeneral hospital378FTE
- University of Virginia's College at WiseUniversity or college336
- Mountain Empire Community CollegeTwo-year college240
- Mullican Flooring - NortonParquet flooring, hardwood, manufacturing187
- American HealthCareNursing care facilities179
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 22 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 2,687 people in all across the county; Coeburn has two 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
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- LandslidesRelatively moderate
- Winter weatherrelatively high in parts of CoeburnRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively moderate
- Inland floodingRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Coeburn’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively 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 Wise County and the Big Stone Gap, VA metro.
Coeburn home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Coeburn$119,636
- Virginia$412,252
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 4 Coeburn 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.
- Coeburn28.21%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Coeburn30
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Coeburn5
Zip codes with a Coeburn address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Coeburn — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.
Zip codes in Coeburn
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 24230 | Coeburn | 6,900 | — | $120,670 |
| 24245 | Dungannon | 1,053 | — | $113,184 |