Java, Virginia.
Typical home $154,771 (+7.1% in a year). Danville, VA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$454 (+126%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $10,319 +7%
- $144,452$154,771 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $33,160 +27%
- $121,611$154,771 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.
- Java$812
- 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 Java, VA rose 7.1% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Java, Pittsylvania County, Virginia
The Census does not count Java on its own, so the figures here are Pittsylvania County's. Half the county's households earn more than $54,085 a year and half less; 15% of the county's people live below the poverty line. 79% of the county's homes are lived in by their owners and 21% are rented. Unemployment in Pittsylvania County was 3.9% in August 2026, and the county had 1.1% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Pittsylvania 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Java is a small town in Pittsylvania County, in south-central Virginia. Its residents are older than most of the country, and most homes are lived in by the people who own them. Winters are colder than most of the country's, summers are hot, snow is light, and rain falls steadily through the year.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, or in manufacturing, retail shops and the building trades. Unemployment across the county has eased over the past year, and the number of jobs has risen slightly. Fewer adults hold a four-year degree than across the country, and relatively few people work from home.
Things to do. Virginia International Raceway, a race track, is one of the best known places nearby and lies a longer drive away. Bird Creek, a river, runs in or beside the town itself. White Oak Mountain Wildlife Management Area, a protected area, is a short drive away.
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- 25,020households
- 48.1median age
- 16%of adults have a degree
- 15%below the poverty line
- 27 mintypical commute
- 6%work from home
What people in Pittsylvania County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Pittsylvania County had 13,000 jobs in 2025, 1.1% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 47° and lows near 24°; warmest in July, with highs near 86° and lows near 65°. About 6 inches of snow and 48 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Chatham weather station, 13 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Pittsylvania County
- Pittsylvania County Public SchoolsSchool district1,425FTE
- Caesars VirginiaHotels, resort, with casinos1,293
- Tyson FarmsPoultry processing629
- Unique Industries - BlairsIndustrial supplies, disposable plastics, paper, merchant wholesalers541
- Intertape Polymer Group325
- Virginia Dept. Of CorrectionsCorrectional institutions296
- JTI Leaf Services (US)Tobacco leaf processing and aging278
- Universal Health ServicesRes mental health substance abuse facilit193
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 43 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 5,934 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
- Inland floodingRelatively moderate
- DroughtRelatively moderate
- Winter weatherRelatively moderate
- Ice stormsRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms across Pittsylvania 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 Pittsylvania County and the Danville, VA metro.
Java home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Java$154,771
- 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 Java address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Java — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.