Fries, Virginia.
Typical home $152,120 (+5.7% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$489 (+158%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $8,215 +6%
- $143,905$152,120 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $40,173 +36%
- $111,947$152,120 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.
- Fries$798
- Virginia$2,164
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 11 years.
Typical home values in Fries, VA rose 5.7% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Fries, Grayson County, Virginia
Fries is a town of 450 people in Grayson County. Half its households earn more than $33,056 a year and half less, against $47,730 across Grayson County. Unemployment in Grayson County was 3.4% in August 2026, and the county had 4.7% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Grayson County work in schools and health care, then manufacturing.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Fries is a very small town in the mountains of Grayson County, Virginia, the sort of place where neighbors tend to know one another. Household incomes run well below the county's, and homes are modestly priced. Winters are cold, with a fair amount of snow, and summers are warm without being hot; rain and melted snow arrive steadily through the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, government and shops also employing many. Across Grayson County, the biggest workplaces include Grayson County Public Schools, Woodgrain Millwork and Avardis Health. Unemployment across the county is lower than it was a year earlier, though the county has fewer jobs than it did the year before.
Things to do. Outdoor places are the main draw. Chestnut Creek, a river, and Matthews State Forest, a protected area, are both a short drive away, and so is Crooked Creek Wildlife Management Area. A longer drive leads to New River Trail State Park, another protected area, for those who want a longer day out.
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What people in Grayson County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Grayson County had 3,254 jobs in 2025, 4.7% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 42° and lows near 23°; warmest in July, with highs near 82° and lows near 61°. About 17 inches of snow and 46 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Galax Radio Wbrf weather station, 5 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Grayson County
- VadocCorrectional institutions330
- Grayson County Public SchoolsSchool district321FTE
- Real performance machinerySawmill equipment manufacturing100
- K VA T Food StoresSupermarket96
- Avardis HealthSkilled nursing facilities85
- Woodgrain MillworkSawmills68
- DSV Solutions IDCGeneral warehousing and storage37
- Core Health & Fitness, LLC - VirginiaAmmunition, sporting, merchant wholesalers36
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 12 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 899 people in all across the county; Fries has none of its own. 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 wavesVery high
- LightningRelatively high
- LandslidesRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively 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 Fries’ 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 Grayson County.
Fries home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Fries$152,120
- Virginia$412,252
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 3 Fries 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.
- Fries37.43%
- United States26.36%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Fries21
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Fries5
Zip codes with a Fries address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Fries — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.