Dry Fork, Virginia.
Typical home $200,226 (-0.0% in a year). Danville, VA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$547 (+109%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $34 -0%
- $200,260$200,226 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $39,109 +24%
- $161,118$200,226 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.
- Dry Fork$1,051
- Virginia$2,164
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 16 years.
Typical home values in Dry Fork, VA fell 0.0% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Dry Fork, Pittsylvania County, Virginia
The Census does not count Dry Fork on its own, so the figures here are Pittsylvania County's. Half the county's households earn more than $54,085 a year and half less; 15% of the county's people live below the poverty line. 79% of the county's homes are lived in by their owners and 21% are rented. Unemployment in Pittsylvania County was 3.9% in August 2026, and the county had 1.1% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Pittsylvania 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Dry Fork is a small town in Pittsylvania County in southern Virginia. Most homes here are lived in by their owners, and the county's median age is higher than the typical age in many places. Winters are cold and bring some snow, summers are warm, and the year is wet, with plenty of rain and melted snow.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, or in manufacturing, retail shops and the building trades. Joblessness across Pittsylvania County has eased recently, and the number of jobs has edged up. Most adults do not hold a four-year degree, and many people spend a while commuting to work.
Things to do. Martinsville Speedway, one of the best known race tracks in the area, is a longer drive away. Bolin Branch, a river, is a short drive away and suits a quiet afternoon outdoors. The Virginia Museum of Natural History, a museum, is a longer drive away.
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- 25,020households
- 48.1median age
- 16%of adults have a degree
- 15%below the poverty line
- 27 mintypical commute
- 6%work from home
What people in Pittsylvania County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Pittsylvania County had 13,000 jobs in 2025, 1.1% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 47° and lows near 24°; warmest in July, with highs near 86° and lows near 65°. About 6 inches of snow and 48 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Chatham weather station, 9 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Pittsylvania County
- Pittsylvania County Public SchoolsSchool district1,425FTE
- Caesars VirginiaHotels, resort, with casinos1,293
- Tyson FarmsPoultry processing629
- Unique Industries - BlairsIndustrial supplies, disposable plastics, paper, merchant wholesalers541
- Intertape Polymer Group325
- Virginia Dept. Of CorrectionsCorrectional institutions296
- JTI Leaf Services (US)Tobacco leaf processing and aging278
- Universal Health ServicesRes mental health substance abuse facilit193
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 43 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 5,934 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
- Inland floodingRelatively moderate
- DroughtRelatively moderate
- Winter weatherRelatively moderate
- Ice stormsRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms across Pittsylvania County, 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 Pittsylvania County and the Danville, VA metro.
Dry Fork home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Dry Fork$200,226
- 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.
- Dry Fork8
Zip codes with a Dry Fork address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Dry Fork — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.