Glade Spring, Virginia.
Typical home $194,689 (-0.5% in a year). Kingsport-Bristol, TN-VA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$555 (+119%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $990 -1%
- $195,679$194,689 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $42,320 +28%
- $152,369$194,689 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.
- Glade Spring$1,022
- 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 Glade Spring, VA fell 0.5% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Glade Spring, Washington County, Virginia
Glade Spring is a town of 1,367 people in Washington County. Half its households earn more than $81,298 a year and half less, against $64,552 across Washington County; 5% of its people live below the poverty line. 82% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 18% are rented. 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 residents 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Glade Spring is a small town in Washington County, Virginia, where most homes are lived in by their owners and incomes run well above the county's. Fewer residents live below the poverty line than you might expect, and a typical home is valued at a level that many households can reach. Winters are cold, with a little snow, and summers are warm, with steady rain and melted snow through the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, shops and government also employing many. Across Washington County, the largest workplaces include Washington County Public Schools, Johnston Memorial Hospital and Emory & Henry University. A typical commute is a modest drive, and very few people work from home.
Things to do. For history, the Saltville Battlefields Historic District, an archaeological site, is a short drive away. Red Rock Mountain Natural Area Preserve, a protected area, is also a short drive away. Those willing to go further can reach Grayson Highlands State Park, a protected area, and the Barter Theatre, both a longer drive away.
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- 633households
- 5%below the poverty line
- 21 mintypical commute
- 3%work from home
What residents 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 44° and lows near 23°; warmest in July, with highs near 84° and lows near 62°. About 10 inches of snow and 48 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Saltville 1N weather station, 7 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; Glade Spring has none 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
- Strong windRelatively high
- LandslidesRelatively moderate
- DroughtRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively 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 Glade Spring’s 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 Washington County and the Kingsport-Bristol, TN-VA metro.
Glade Spring home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Glade Spring$194,689
- 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.
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 3 Glade Spring 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.
- Glade Spring39.13%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Glade Spring23
Zip codes with a Glade Spring address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Glade Spring — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.