Henry, Virginia.
Typical home $222,846 (+4.1% in a year). Roanoke, VA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$650 (+125%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $8,835 +4%
- $214,012$222,846 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $47,600 +27%
- $175,246$222,846 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.
- Henry$1,170
- 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 Henry, VA rose 4.1% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Henry, Franklin County, Virginia
The Census does not count Henry 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Henry is a community in Franklin County, in the hills of southern Virginia. Across the county, the population is older than the country's typical age, and most homes are lived in by their owners. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month, and summers are warm, with July the warmest. Rain and melted snow fall in plenty through the year, so the seasons tend to be wet as well as cold or warm.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, in manufacturing, in shops, or in restaurants, hotels and entertainment. Unemployment across Franklin County is about the same as it was a year earlier, and the number of jobs edged up over the past year. A smaller share of adults hold a four-year degree than in many parts of the country, and more people than the national norm live below the poverty line. Few people work from home, and most homes are valued well below what they would fetch in much of the country.
Things to do. Martinsville Speedway, one of the best known race tracks in the region, is a longer drive away. Fairy Stone State Park, a protected area, and Philpott Lake, a reservoir, are both a short drive away and make good places for a day outdoors.
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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 48° and lows near 26°; warmest in July, with highs near 87° and lows near 66°. About 47 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Philpott Dam weather station, 5 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.
Henry home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Henry$222,846
- 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.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a Henry address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Henry — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.