Elliston, Virginia.
Typical home $243,792 (+3.0% in a year). Blacksburg-Christiansburg, VA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$695 (+119%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $7,003 +3%
- $236,789$243,792 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $51,932 +27%
- $191,860$243,792 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.
- Elliston$1,280
- Virginia$2,164
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 14 years.
Typical home values in Elliston, VA rose 3.0% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Elliston, Montgomery County, Virginia
Elliston, in Montgomery County, had 855 people in the 2020 census. Unemployment in Montgomery County was 4.1% in August 2026, and the county had 1.6% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Montgomery County work in schools and health care, then restaurants and hotels.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Elliston is a very small community in Montgomery County, Virginia, with far fewer people than the typical American town. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month and some snow each year, while summers are warm and July is the warmest. Rain and melted snow fall steadily through the year.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, and in restaurants, hotels and entertainment, with others in shops and in professional and business services. Across Montgomery County, the largest workplaces include Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Montgomery County Public Schools and Carilion NEW River Valley MED Center. Unemployment across the county has eased a little compared with a year ago, and the county has added jobs.
Things to do. Close to home, Spring Hollow Reservoir and Pedlar Hills Natural Area Preserve are in or beside town. A short drive away are Dixie Caverns, a tourist attraction, and Brush Mountain Wilderness, a protected area. For a longer outing, the Appalachian Trail is a longer drive away.
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What people in Montgomery County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Montgomery County had 43,874 jobs in 2025, 1.6% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 40° and lows near 22°; warmest in July, with highs near 80° and lows near 61°. About 18 inches of snow and 50 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Copper Hill weather station, 11 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Montgomery County
- Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State UniversityUniversity or college9,191
- Edward Via College of Osteopathic MedicineUniversity or college4,688
- Montgomery County Public SchoolsSchool district1,510FTE
- Carilion New River Valley MED CenterGeneral hospital949FTE
- Moog Inc. - Blacksburg CentralSwitches for electronic applications manufacturing668
- Lewisgale Hospital - MontgomeryGeneral hospital465FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters422
- Moog Inc. - Blacksburg NorthSolenoids for electronic applications manufacturing412
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 51 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 8,773 people in all across the county; Elliston has none of its own. Colleges come from IPEDS (NCES, 2023–24), school districts 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
- Inland floodingVery high
- LandslidesRelatively moderate
- Winter weatherRelatively moderate
- Cold wavesRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Elliston’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively high. 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 Montgomery County and the Blacksburg-Christiansburg, VA metro.
Elliston home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Elliston$243,792
- 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.
- Elliston11
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a Elliston address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Elliston — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.