Pilot, Virginia.
Typical home $258,062 (+0.3% in a year). Blacksburg-Christiansburg, VA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$568 (+72%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $852 +0%
- $257,210$258,062 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Down $13,910 -5%
- $271,972$258,062 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.
- Pilot$1,355
- Virginia$2,164
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, prices here aren't rising.
Typical home values in Pilot, VA rose 0.3% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Pilot, Floyd County, Virginia
The Census does not count Pilot on its own, so the figures here are Floyd County's. Half the county's households earn more than $62,191 a year and half less; 10% of the county's people live below the poverty line. 84% of the county's homes are lived in by their owners and 16% are rented. Unemployment in Floyd County was 3.1% in August 2026, and the county had 1.8% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Floyd 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Pilot is a small community in Floyd County, in the hills of southwestern Virginia. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month, and summers are warm, with July the warmest. Snow falls most winters, and rain is common through the rest of the year. Across Floyd County, most homes are lived in by their owners, and the typical home value is in the range the county's listings reflect.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, and manufacturing and the building trades also employ people here. Shops and retail give more local jobs. Unemployment has eased over the past year, and the county added jobs in the most recent year on record.
Things to do. The Appalachian Trail, a long footpath, is a longer drive away. Mountain Lake, a lake, and Fairy Stone State Park, a protected area, are also a longer drive away.
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- 6,627households
- 48.1median age
- 24%of adults have a degree
- 10%below the poverty line
- 30 mintypical commute
- 12%work from home
What people in Floyd County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Floyd County had 3,831 jobs in 2025, 1.8% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 42° and lows near 23°; warmest in July, with highs near 82° and lows near 62°. About 22 inches of snow and 42 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Christiansburg weather station, 7 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Floyd County
- Floyd County Public SchoolsSchool district356FTE
- Hollingsworth and VoseManufacturing177
- Riverbend NurseryPlant, potted flower and foliage, growing90
- Food LionGrocery stores70
- Red Rooster Coffee RoasterCoffee concentrates manufacturing47
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 4 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 384 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
- DroughtRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms across Floyd 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 Floyd County and the Blacksburg-Christiansburg, VA metro.
Pilot home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Pilot$258,062
- 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 Pilot address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Pilot — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.