Gladys, Virginia.
Typical home $218,946 (+4.8% in a year). Lynchburg, VA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$631 (+122%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $10,036 +5%
- $208,910$218,946 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $50,745 +30%
- $168,201$218,946 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.
- Gladys$1,149
- Virginia$2,164
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 13 years.
Typical home values in Gladys, VA rose 4.8% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Gladys, Campbell County, Virginia
The Census does not count Gladys on its own, so the figures here are Campbell County's. Half the county's households earn more than $66,165 a year and half less; 11% of the county's people live below the poverty line. 75% of the county's homes are lived in by their owners and 25% are rented. Unemployment in Campbell County was 3.5% in August 2026, and the county had 1.3% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Campbell 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Gladys is a small town in Campbell County, in Virginia. Across the county, most homes are lived in by their owners, and household incomes and home values are modest. The typical resident is middle-aged, and the town sits in the Virginia countryside with a mix of farms, homes and open land.
Work. Residents across Campbell County work in schools, hospitals and social care, manufacturing, shops, and professional and business services. Unemployment has held steady over the past year, and jobs have grown slightly. Many residents commute to work, relatively few work from home, and fewer adults hold degrees than across the country.
Things to do. Red Hill Patrick Henry National Memorial, a protected area a longer drive away, is one of the best known places nearby. The Seneca River, a short drive away, is a quiet spot by the water. Smith Mountain Lake State Park, another protected area a longer drive away, is also within reach.
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- 22,240households
- 43.6median age
- 26%of adults have a degree
- 11%below the poverty line
- 23 mintypical commute
- 10%work from home
What people in Campbell County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Campbell County had 18,718 jobs in 2025, 1.3% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 48° and lows near 24°; warmest in July, with highs near 88° and lows near 65°. About 7 inches of snow and 46 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Brookneal weather station, 8 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Campbell County
- BWXT NOG LynchburgFabricated plate work manufacturing2,200
- Campbell County Public SchoolsSchool district1,292FTE
- AbbottDry condensed and evap dairy product manufacturing831
- Moore's Electrical & MechanicalHeating, ventilation and air-conditioning contractors637
- Lyhdip312
- BGF IndustriesBroadwoven fabrics weaving301
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters284
- Sonny MerrymanSchool bus merchant wholesalers174
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 52 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 7,491 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
- LightningRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms across Campbell 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 Campbell County and the Lynchburg, VA metro.
Gladys home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Gladys$218,946
- 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.
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.
- Gladys17
Zip codes with a Gladys address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Gladys — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.