Damascus, Virginia.
Typical home $212,256 (+5.4% in a year). Kingsport-Bristol, TN-VA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$681 (+158%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $10,950 +5%
- $201,306$212,256 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $66,046 +45%
- $146,210$212,256 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.
- Damascus$1,114
- Virginia$2,164
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 9 years.
Typical home values in Damascus, VA rose 5.4% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Damascus, Washington County, Virginia
Damascus is a town of 788 people in Washington County. Half its households earn more than $29,006 a year and half less, against $64,552 across Washington County; 20% of its people live below the poverty line. Unemployment in Washington County was 3.4% in August 2026, and the county had 3.5% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Washington 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Damascus is a very small town in Washington County, Virginia, where most people know one another by sight. Household incomes are well below the county's, and a larger share of residents live below the poverty line than you might expect for the region. Few adults hold a four-year degree, and a typical home costs far less than in much of the country. Winters are cold, with highs in January staying well below freezing at night, and summers are warm, with July the hottest month. Rain and melted snow add up to a fair amount over the year.
Work. Residents of Damascus work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by shops, manufacturing, and restaurants, hotels and entertainment. Across Washington County, some of the largest workplaces are Washington County Public Schools, Johnston Memorial Hospital and Emory & Henry University. The typical commute is a short one. Unemployment across the county has stayed low, and the county added jobs over the past year.
Things to do. Beaverdam Creek and London Bridge Branch are protected areas in or beside town, handy for a walk close to home. A longer drive brings you to Mount Rogers National Recreation Area, a large protected area of high country, and to the Barter Theatre, a well-known theatre. Bristol Motor Speedway, a race track, is also a longer drive away.
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- 383households
- 13%of adults have a degree
- 20%below the poverty line
- 21 mintypical commute
What people in Washington County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Washington County had 21,147 jobs in 2025, 3.5% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 45° and lows near 24°; warmest in July, with highs near 85° and lows near 62°. About 47 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Abingdon 3S weather station, 10 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Washington County
- Washington County Public SchoolsSchool district1,003FTE
- Johnston Memorial HospitalGeneral hospital508FTE
- K VA T Food StoresCorporate office498
- Utility Trailer Manufacturing Company: Glade Spring, VA PlantSemi-trailer manufacturing448
- Emory & Henry UniversityUniversity or college420
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters351
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters346
- K VA T Food StoresGeneral warehouse252
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 56 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 6,398 people in all across the county; Damascus 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
- Strong windRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- LandslidesRelatively moderate
- Cold wavesRelatively 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 Damascus’ 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 Washington County and the Kingsport-Bristol, TN-VA metro.
Damascus home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Damascus$212,256
- 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.
- Damascus16
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a Damascus address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Damascus — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.