Honaker, Virginia.
Typical home $101,098 (+1.9% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$226 (+74%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $1,876 +2%
- $99,222$101,098 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $6,458 +7%
- $94,640$101,098 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.
- Honaker$531
- Virginia$2,164
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 53 years.
Typical home values in Honaker, VA rose 1.9% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Honaker, Russell County, Virginia
Honaker is a town of 1,217 people in Russell County. Unemployment in Russell County was 4.6% in August 2026, and the county had 0.3% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Russell County work in schools and health care, then shops.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Honaker is a small town in Russell County, in the mountains of southwest Virginia. Its residents are somewhat older than the typical American, and incomes in the county run below the national picture, while homes in town are inexpensive to buy. Winters are cold, with some snow, summers are warm, and rain falls through the year.
Work. Many people in town work in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, in manufacturing and in the building trades. Across Russell County, the largest workplaces include Russell County Public Schools, Walmart and Russell County Hospital. Few adults hold a four-year degree, and the typical commute is a long one, which reflects how far apart jobs and homes can be in this part of the state.
Things to do. The Little River runs in or beside town. A short drive away are Clinch Mountain Wildlife Management Area and Pinnacle Natural Area Preserve, both protected places for walking and time outdoors. Farther afield, a longer drive brings you to Hungry Mother State Park and to the Barter Theatre.
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- 513households
- 6%of adults have a degree
- 38 mintypical commute
- 5%work from home
What people in Russell County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Russell County had 6,134 jobs in 2025, 0.3% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 45° and lows near 23°; warmest in July, with highs near 84° and lows near 61°. About 12 inches of snow and 46 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Lebanon weather station, 9 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Russell County
- Russell County Public SchoolsSchool district594FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters254
- Samuel Pressure Vessel Group LebanonCylinders, pressure, heavy gauge metal, manufacturing228
- Russell County HospitalGeneral hospital127FTE
- K VA T Food StoresSupermarket93
- ClecoHighway construction91
- JennmarCoal and ore conveyors manufacturing43
- American Electric Power32
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 10 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 952 people in all across the county; Honaker has none of its own. 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
- Cold wavesVery high
- LandslidesRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Honaker’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively moderate. 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 Russell County.
Honaker home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Honaker$101,098
- 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.
- Honaker13
Zip codes with a Honaker address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Honaker — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.
Zip codes in Honaker
| Zip activate to sort by Zip | Place activate to sort by Place | Population sorted descending, activate to sort ascending | Rent activate to sort by Rent | Home value activate to sort by Home value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 24260 | Honaker | 5,318 | — | $104,092 |
| 24225 | Cleveland | 1,791 | — | $103,267 |