Laurel Fork, Virginia.
Typical home $215,190 (+10.2% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$594 (+111%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $19,906 +10%
- $195,284$215,190 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $41,248 +24%
- $173,942$215,190 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.
- Laurel Fork$1,129
- Virginia$2,164
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 16 years.
Typical home values in Laurel Fork, VA rose 10.2% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Laurel Fork, Carroll County, Virginia
The Census does not count Laurel Fork on its own, so the figures here are Carroll County's. Half the county's households earn more than $54,484 a year and half less; 15% of the county's people live below the poverty line. 77% of the county's homes are lived in by their owners and 23% are rented. Unemployment in Carroll County was 3.6% in August 2026, and the county had about as many jobs in 2025 as the year before. The most people in Carroll 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Laurel Fork is a town in Carroll County, in the mountains of southwestern Virginia. Across Carroll County, most homes are lived in by their owners, which is more than in much of the country. Across the county, residents tend to be older than most Americans, and fewer adults hold a degree than the national average.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, or in manufacturing, while others work in shops and in restaurants, hotels and entertainment. Across the county, unemployment is lower than it was a year earlier. Few people work from home, so most adults travel to a job outside the house.
Things to do. Ararat River and Birds Branch are both rivers a short drive away, and Buffalo Mountain Natural Area Preserve, a protected area, is also a short drive. Tory's Falls, a waterfall, and Hanging Rock State Park, a protected area, are a longer drive away. Winters are cold, with the coldest weather in January, and summers are warmest in July, so the seasons shape when these places are most pleasant to visit.
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- 12,576households
- 49.4median age
- 17%of adults have a degree
- 15%below the poverty line
- 27 mintypical commute
- 3%work from home
What people in Carroll County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Carroll County had 5,796 jobs in 2025, about as many as the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 46° and lows near 25°; warmest in July, with highs near 82° and lows near 62°. About 7 inches of snow and 59 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Meadows Of Dan Southwest weather station, 6 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Carroll County
- Carroll County Public SchoolsSchool district507FTE
- Mohawk IndustriesBacking127
- Turman SawmillSawmills126
- Lowe's Companies, INCHomecenter121
- Vanguard BRHousehold-type furniture, upholstered, manufacturing104
- Food LionGrocery stores93
- Hillsville Health and Rehab CenterNursing homes69
- American HealthCareNursing care facilities67
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 11 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 835 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
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- LandslidesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms across Carroll 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 Carroll County.
Laurel Fork home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Laurel Fork$215,190
- 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.
- Laurel Fork7
Zip codes with a Laurel Fork address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Laurel Fork — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.