Keen Mountain, Virginia.
Typical home $97,840 (+2.7% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$266 (+107%) since Feb 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $2,573 +3%
- $95,267$97,840 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $14,131 +17%
- $83,709$97,840 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.
- Keen Mountain$514
- Virginia$2,164
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 22 years.
Typical home values in Keen Mountain, VA rose 2.7% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Keen Mountain, Buchanan County, Virginia
The Census does not count Keen Mountain on its own, so the figures here are Buchanan County's. Half the county's households earn more than $42,886 a year and half less; 25% of the county's people live below the poverty line. 83% of the county's homes are lived in by their owners and 17% are rented. Unemployment in Buchanan County was 7.0% in August 2026, and the county had 5.9% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Buchanan County work in schools and health care, then farming.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Keen Mountain is a community in Buchanan County, in the hilly country of far southwestern Virginia. Winters here are colder than most of the country, with snow most years, while summers are warm and rain falls through much of the year. Across the county, most homes are lived in by their owners.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, or in farming, forestry and mining, with government and shops also providing work. Jobs have grown scarcer lately, with fewer jobs than the year before and more people out of work. Few adults hold a four-year degree, and few people work from home.
Things to do. Breaks Interstate Park is a protected area a longer drive away, and Desolate Branch is a river in the same range of distance. Berwind Lake Wildlife Management Area, another protected area, is also a longer drive off.
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- 7,530households
- 47.8median age
- 12%of adults have a degree
- 25%below the poverty line
- 30 mintypical commute
- 6%work from home
What people in Buchanan County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Buchanan County had 5,696 jobs in 2025, 5.9% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 43° and lows near 24°; warmest in July, with highs near 83° and lows near 63°. About 16 inches of snow and 47 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Grundy weather station, 3 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Buchanan County
- Buchanan County Public SchoolsSchool district464FTE
- Virginia Department of CorrectionsCorrectional institutions310
- Virginia Employment Commission-VansantGeneral services departments, government230
- Buchanan General HospitalGeneral hospital180FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters173
- American HealthCareNursing care facilities134
- K VA T Food StoresSupermarket122
- SunCoke Energy Jewell OperationCoke oven products made in coke oven establishments114
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 11 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,508 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
- LandslidesRelatively moderate
- Cold wavesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms across Buchanan 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 Buchanan County.
Keen Mountain home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Keen Mountain$97,840
- 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.
Zip codes with a Keen Mountain address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Keen Mountain — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.
Zillow publishes no zip-level series with this city on the address.