Gladehill, Virginia.
Typical home $308,315 (+4.8% in a year). Roanoke, VA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$971 (+150%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $14,141 +5%
- $294,174$308,315 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $88,437 +40%
- $219,879$308,315 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.
- Gladehill$1,618
- Virginia$2,164
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 10 years.
Typical home values in Gladehill, VA rose 4.8% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Gladehill, Franklin County, Virginia
The Census does not count Gladehill on its own, so the figures here are Franklin County's. Half the county's households earn more than $68,849 a year and half less; 13% of the county's people live below the poverty line. 78% of the county's homes are lived in by their owners and 22% are rented. Unemployment in Franklin County was 3.6% in August 2026, and the county had 0.9% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Franklin 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Gladehill is a small community in Franklin County, Virginia, where most homes are lived in by their owners and residents are older than the country as a whole. Winters are cold and bring snow most years, while summers are warm. The area is also wet, with a good deal of rain and melted snow falling over the year.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, in manufacturing, in shops, or in restaurants, hotels and entertainment. Across the county, jobs grew slightly last year and unemployment has held steady and low over the past year. A minority of adults hold a four-year degree, and few people work from home.
Things to do. The Pigg River runs in or beside town, which makes it the easiest outdoor place to reach. Booker T. Washington National Monument, a museum a short drive away, is one of the best known sites nearby. Smith Mountain Lake, a reservoir a longer drive off, offers a larger body of water for a day trip.
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- 22,999households
- 48.4median age
- 25%of adults have a degree
- 13%below the poverty line
- 30 mintypical commute
- 12%work from home
What people in Franklin County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Franklin County had 15,810 jobs in 2025, 0.9% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 47° and lows near 26°; warmest in July, with highs near 87° and lows near 65°. About 13 inches of snow and 49 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Rocky Mount weather station, 8 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Franklin County
- Franklin County Public SchoolsSchool district1,479FTE
- Plygem Rocky Mount - US WindowsWindows and window frames, vinyl, manufacturing1,268
- Franklin CountyGeneral services departments, government563
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters288
- Ferrum CollegeUniversity or college266
- Carilion Franklin Memorial HospitalGeneral hospital254FTE
- Cavco Industries321991219
- Riverbend EnterprisesFoundation, building, poured concrete, contractors167
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 26 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 4,706 people in all. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24), colleges from IPEDS (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
- Strong windRelatively moderate
- DroughtRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms across Franklin County, against the rest of the country; all of them together, very 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 Franklin County and the Roanoke, VA metro.
Gladehill home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Gladehill$308,315
- 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.
- Gladehill10
Zip codes with a Gladehill address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Gladehill — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.