Dugspur, Virginia.
Typical home $182,174 (+3.3% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$433 (+83%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $5,863 +3%
- $176,312$182,174 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $11,394 +7%
- $170,781$182,174 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.
- Dugspur$956
- Virginia$2,164
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 54 years.
Typical home values in Dugspur, VA rose 3.3% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Dugspur, Carroll County, Virginia
The Census does not count Dugspur on its own, so the figures here are Carroll County's. Half the county's households earn more than $54,484 a year and half less; 15% of the county's people live below the poverty line. 77% of the county's homes are lived in by their owners and 23% are rented. Unemployment in Carroll County was 3.6% in August 2026, and the county had about as many jobs in 2025 as the year before. The most people in Carroll 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Dugspur is a small community in Carroll County, in the hills of southwestern Virginia. Across the county, most homes are lived in by their owners, and many residents are middle-aged or older. Winters are cold and bring some snow, and summers are warm, with a good deal of rain falling through the year.
Work. Across Carroll County, many people work in schools, hospitals and social care, in factories, or in shops and restaurants. Unemployment has fallen over the past year, while the number of jobs has stayed about the same. Few residents work from home, so most people commute to a workplace each day.
Things to do. Buffalo Mountain Natural Area Preserve is a protected area a short drive away, a good place for walks in the hills. Claytor Lake is a reservoir a longer drive away, where people go for time on the water. The Blue Ridge Music Center, a museum a longer drive away, shows the region's music and its history.
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- 12,576households
- 49.4median age
- 17%of adults have a degree
- 15%below the poverty line
- 27 mintypical commute
- 3%work from home
What people in Carroll County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Carroll County had 5,796 jobs in 2025, about as many as the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 46° and lows near 25°; warmest in July, with highs near 82° and lows near 62°. About 7 inches of snow and 59 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Meadows Of Dan Southwest weather station, 13 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Carroll County
- Carroll County Public SchoolsSchool district507FTE
- Mohawk IndustriesBacking127
- Turman SawmillSawmills126
- Lowe's Companies, INCHomecenter121
- Vanguard BRHousehold-type furniture, upholstered, manufacturing104
- Food LionGrocery stores93
- Hillsville Health and Rehab CenterNursing homes69
- American HealthCareNursing care facilities67
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 11 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 835 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
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- LandslidesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms across Carroll 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 Carroll County.
Dugspur home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Dugspur$182,174
- 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.
- Dugspur10
Zip codes with a Dugspur address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Dugspur — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.