Newport, Virginia.
Typical home $305,068 (+7.6% in a year). Blacksburg-Christiansburg, VA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$938 (+141%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $21,624 +8%
- $283,444$305,068 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $79,569 +35%
- $225,499$305,068 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.
- Newport$1,601
- Virginia$2,164
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 11 years.
Typical home values in Newport, VA rose 7.6% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Newport, Giles County, Virginia
The Census does not count Newport on its own, so the figures here are Giles County's. Half the county's households earn more than $65,691 a year and half less; 9% 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 Giles County was 3.6% in August 2026, and the county had 11.0% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Giles 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Newport is a small town in Giles County, in the mountains of southwestern Virginia. Across Giles County, most homes are lived in by their owners, and the population skews toward middle age and older. The winters are colder than in much of the country, the summers are warm, and the area gets a fair amount of both snow and rain.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, in manufacturing, in the building trades, or in shops. Across the county, fewer people are out of work than a year earlier, though the number of jobs fell sharply last year. Working from home is uncommon here, and fewer adults hold a four-year degree than in most of the country.
Things to do. The Appalachian Trail is a long-distance footpath a short drive away, and it draws hikers through the surrounding ridges. Mountain Lake, also a short drive away, is a lake set among the hills. Clover Hollow Natural Area Preserve is a protected natural area in or beside town, suited to a quiet walk.
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- 6,698households
- 45.4median age
- 18%of adults have a degree
- 9%below the poverty line
- 29 mintypical commute
- 2%work from home
What people in Giles County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Giles County had 5,245 jobs in 2025, 11.0% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 42° and lows near 22°; warmest in July, with highs near 82° and lows near 61°. About 25 inches of snow and 43 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Blacksburg Nwso weather station, 10 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Giles County
- Celanese AcetateThermoplastic resins and plastics materials manufacturing615
- Giles County Public SchoolsSchool district390FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters203
- Carilion Giles Community HospitalCritical access hospital190FTE
- American HealthCareNursing care facilities126
- Interstate Group Glyn Lyn PlantAutomobile transporter trailers, multi-car, manufacturing116
- Cogar ManufacturingAugers, mining-type, manufacturing67
- Food LionGrocery stores67
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 9 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 2,202 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
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms across Giles County, against the rest of the country; all of them together, very 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 Giles County and the Blacksburg-Christiansburg, VA metro.
Newport home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Newport$305,068
- 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 Newport address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Newport — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.