Pamplin, Virginia.
Typical home $222,181 (+6.5% in a year). Lynchburg, VA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$581 (+99%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $13,635 +7%
- $208,546$222,181 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $27,281 +14%
- $194,900$222,181 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.
- Pamplin$1,166
- Virginia$2,164
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 26 years.
Typical home values in Pamplin, VA rose 6.5% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Pamplin, Appomattox County, Virginia
Pamplin is a town of 138 people in Appomattox County. Half its households earn more than $68,750 a year and half less, against $62,853 across Appomattox County; 7% of its people live below the poverty line. Unemployment in Appomattox County was 3.3% in August 2026, and the county had 1.6% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Appomattox County work in schools and health care, then manufacturing.
Written by AI Claude Sonnet 5.5 wrote this on 24 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Pamplin is a very small town in Appomattox County, Virginia, the kind of place where residents are likely to know one another by name. Household incomes run above the county's, and fewer people live below the poverty line than a figure like that might suggest for a rural area. Few adults hold a four-year degree, and the typical home is modestly priced. Winters are cold but not severe, with some snow, while summers are warm, and rain and melted snow fall steadily through the year.
Work. People who live in Pamplin mostly work in schools, hospitals and social care, in manufacturing, in shops and in the building trades. Across Appomattox County, the largest workplaces include Appomattox County Public Schools, Walmart and the Virginia State Police. Unemployment in the county is unchanged from a year earlier, and the number of jobs has grown slightly.
Things to do. The Pamplin Pipe Factory, an archaeological site, lies in or beside town. A short drive away are Appomattox Court House National Historical Park and Holliday Lake State Park, a protected area set around a lake. The Little Falling River, also a short drive away, offers a quiet stretch of water close to home.
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- 7%of adults have a degree
- 7%below the poverty line
What people in Appomattox County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Appomattox County had 3,660 jobs in 2025, 1.6% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 45° and lows near 27°; warmest in July, with highs near 86° and lows near 67°. About 11 inches of snow and 46 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Appomattox weather station, 9 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Appomattox County
- Appomattox County Public SchoolsSchool district404FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters226
- Virginia State PoliceLaw enforcement175
- Kroger Mid-Atlantic KMASupermarkets and other grocery except convenience stores84
- Appomattox Care CenterNursing homes70
- StallWorks50
- Jamerson Building SupplyHome centers, building materials35
- Virginia Department of TransportationHighway repair maintenance23
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 8 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 683 people in all across the county; Pamplin has none of its own. 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
- DroughtRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively moderate
- Cold wavesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Pamplin’s census tracts, 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 Appomattox County and the Lynchburg, VA metro.
Pamplin home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Pamplin$222,181
- 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.
- Pamplin11
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a Pamplin address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Pamplin — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.