Goodview, Virginia.
Typical home $319,500 (+4.5% in a year). Lynchburg, VA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$998 (+147%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $13,772 +5%
- $305,728$319,500 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $91,167 +40%
- $228,333$319,500 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.
- Goodview$1,677
- 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 Goodview, VA rose 4.5% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Goodview, Bedford County, Virginia
The Census does not count Goodview on its own, so the figures here are Bedford County's. Half the county's households earn more than $78,937 a year and half less; 8% of the county's people live below the poverty line. 85% of the county's homes are lived in by their owners and 15% are rented. Unemployment in Bedford County was 3.4% in August 2026, and the county had 1.0% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Bedford 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Goodview sits in Bedford County, Virginia, where most homes are lived in by their owners. Residents are older on the whole than people across the country, and winters are milder than in much of the north, though snow still falls most years. Summers run hot, and rain is fairly steady through the year.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, manufacturing, professional and business services, or retail. Unemployment across the county has held steady over the past year, and the number of jobs has edged up. A good share of adults hold a four-year degree, and relatively few people work from home.
Things to do. Booker T. Washington National Monument, a museum, is a short drive away, and Virginia's Explore Park, a protected area, is also a short drive off. Smith Mountain Lake State Park, another protected area, is a longer drive away.
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- 33,127households
- 47.2median age
- 34%of adults have a degree
- 8%below the poverty line
- 26 mintypical commute
- 13%work from home
What people in Bedford County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Bedford County had 18,784 jobs in 2025, 1.0% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 47° and lows near 29°; warmest in July, with highs near 88° and lows near 67°. About 15 inches of snow and 43 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Roanoke Regional Airport weather station, 14 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Bedford County
- Bedford County Public SchoolsSchool district1,540FTE
- Big Island Paper334
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters310
- SentryBelt conveyor systems manufacturing253
- Bedford Memorial HospitalGeneral hospital215FTE
- Custom Truck One Source - ForestCranes, construction-type, manufacturing190
- Parkland DirectPrinting, letterpress180
- Kroger Mid-Atlantic KMASupermarkets and other grocery except convenience stores164
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 55 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 4,501 people in all. School districts come 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
- LightningRelatively moderate
- DroughtRelatively 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 Bedford County, 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 Bedford County and the Lynchburg, VA metro.
Goodview home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Goodview$319,500
- 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 2 Goodview 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.
- Goodview42.57%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Goodview28
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Goodview5
Zip codes with a Goodview address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Goodview — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.