Millboro, Virginia.
Typical home $270,404 (+8.2% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$734 (+107%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $20,431 +8%
- $249,973$270,404 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $43,061 +19%
- $227,343$270,404 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.
- Millboro$1,419
- Virginia$2,164
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 20 years.
Typical home values in Millboro, VA rose 8.2% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Millboro, Bath County, Virginia
Millboro, in Bath County, had 236 people in the 2020 census. Unemployment in Bath County was 2.5% in August 2026, and the county had 1.7% more jobs in 2025 than the year before.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Millboro is a very small community in Bath County, Virginia, in the Allegheny Mountains. Homes here are valued at a typical price that is modest compared with many parts of the state. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month and highs staying near freezing, while July is mild and pleasant by comparison. Snow falls regularly through the winter, and the town gets a fair amount of rain and melted snow across the year.
Work. Work in Bath County leans on a few steady employers, including The Omni Homestead Resort and Spa, Bath County Public Schools and Bath County Community Hospital. Unemployment across the county is low and has held about where it was a year ago. The county also has slightly more jobs than it did the year before.
Things to do. The land around Millboro suits people who like to be outdoors. Goshen Pass Natural Area Preserve and Rough Mountain Wilderness are both protected areas a short drive away, and the Calfpasture River runs close by too. For a longer outing, Douthat State Park is a protected area a longer drive away.
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Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 40° and lows near 22°; warmest in July, with highs near 82° and lows near 60°. About 25 inches of snow and 46 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Hot Springs weather station, 13 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Bath County
- The Omni Homestead Resort and SpaHotels740
- Bath County Public SchoolsSchool district143FTE
- Bath County Community HospitalCritical access hospital124FTE
- BARC Electric CooperativeDistribution of electric power68
- Speyside Bourbon Stave Mill of VirginiaSawmills61
- Dominion EnergyHydroelectric power generation49
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 5 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,134 people in all across the county; Millboro 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
- LightningVery high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- LandslidesRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively moderate
- Winter weatherRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Millboro’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 Bath County.
Millboro home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Millboro$270,404
- 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 Millboro address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Millboro — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.