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Pembroke, Virginia.

Typical home $222,240 (+8.5% in a year). Blacksburg-Christiansburg, VA metro.

What it costs per month · Pembroke $1,166/mo

to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$636 (+120%) since Jan 2020.

What the home itself did
1 year
Up $17,463 +9%
$204,777$222,240 since Sep 2025
5 years
Up $42,449 +24%
$179,791$222,240 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.

$500 $1,000 $1,500 $2,000 2002 2006 2010 2014 2018 2022 2026 Pembroke $1,166 Virginia $2,164 United States $1,922
$500 $1,000 $1,500 $2,000 2002 2010 2018 2026
  • Pembroke$1,166
  • 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 Pembroke, VA rose 8.5% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.

Living in Pembroke, Giles County, Virginia

Pembroke is a town of 1,152 people in Giles County. Half its households earn more than $57,500 a year and half less, against $65,691 across Giles County; 9% of its people live below the poverty line. 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.

People 1,152 in the 2020 census
Household income $57,500 the median, give or take $11,562 · Giles County: $65,691
Unemployment 3.6% Giles County, August 2026; 6.3% a year before
Homes Too few homes in Pembroke for the Census survey to measure.

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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Pembroke is a small town in Giles County, in the mountains of southwest Virginia. Household incomes here run below the county's, and typical home values are modest. Winters are cold and snowy, summers are warm, and rain falls through much of the year.

Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, the building trades and shops close behind. Across Giles County, some of the largest workplaces are Celanese Acetate, Giles County Public Schools and Carilion Giles Community Hospital. Commutes are fairly short, and very few people work from home. Unemployment in the county has eased from a year earlier, though the county has fewer jobs than it did the year before.

Things to do. Sinking Creek and Walker Creek run in or beside town, and Mountain Lake, a lake, is a short drive away. The Cascades, a protected area known for its waterfall trail, is also a short drive away. For a longer day out, the Appalachian Trail is a longer drive away.

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  • 464households
  • 19%of adults have a degree
  • 9%below the poverty line
  • 21 mintypical commute
  • 2%work from home

What people in Giles County work in

  • Schools, hospitals and social care27%
  • Manufacturing21%
  • Building trades10%
  • Shops (retail)9%
  • Professional and business services7%
  • Restaurants, hotels and entertainment6%

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

Average daily high and low for each month: coldest in January, 42° and 23°; warmest in July, 83° and 61° 20° 40° 60° 80° J 42° 23° F M A M J J 83° 61° A S O N D
Average daily high and low for each month: coldest in January, 42° and 23°; warmest in July, 83° and 61° 20° 40° 60° 80° J 42° 23° F M A M J J 83° 61° A S O N D

Coldest in January, with highs near 42° and lows near 23°; warmest in July, with highs near 83° and lows near 61°. About 23 inches of snow and 42 inches of rain and melted snow a year.

Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Pearisburg Sse weather station, 4 miles away (NOAA).

Largest workplaces in Giles County

  1. Celanese AcetateThermoplastic resins and plastics materials manufacturing615
  2. Giles County Public SchoolsSchool district390FTE
  3. WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters203
  4. Carilion Giles Community HospitalCritical access hospital190FTE
  5. American HealthCareNursing care facilities126
  6. Interstate Group Glyn Lyn PlantAutomobile transporter trailers, multi-car, manufacturing116
  7. Cogar ManufacturingAugers, mining-type, manufacturing67
  8. 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 across the county; Pembroke 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

  1. Inland floodingRelatively high
  2. LandslidesRelatively moderate
  3. LightningRelatively moderate
  4. Winter weatherRelatively moderate
  5. Cold wavesRelatively moderate
  6. Strong windRelatively moderate

FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Pembroke’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 Giles County and the Blacksburg-Christiansburg, VA metro.

Pembroke home values

Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.

$200,000 $300,000 $400,000 2018 2020 2022 2024 2026 Pembroke $222,240 Virginia $412,252 United States $366,157
$200,000 $300,000 $400,000 2018 2022 2026
  • Pembroke$222,240
  • Virginia$412,252
  • United States$366,157

Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 4 Pembroke listings — the market is roughly in balance.

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.

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falling flat warming hot overheating runaway

Market heat, inside the city limits

Share of listings with a price cut

The early-warning dial: sellers cut when buyers stop reaching. Rising cuts cool a market months before prices notice.

Not enough data to draw this yet.

Homes for sale

Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.

5 10 15 2024 2025 2026 Pembroke 18
5 10 15 2024 2025 2026
  • Pembroke18

New listings per month

Sellers arriving at the market.

Not enough data to draw this yet.

Zip codes with a Pembroke address

A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Pembroke — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.

Zip codes in Pembroke

Zip Place Population Rent Home value
24136 Pembroke 3,145 — $229,434
24150 Ripplemead 883 — $181,822