Raven, Virginia.
Typical home $91,712 (+2.2% in a year). Bluefield, WV-VA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$226 (+89%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $1,997 +2%
- $89,715$91,712 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $8,321 +10%
- $83,392$91,712 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.
- Raven$481
- Virginia$2,164
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 36 years.
Typical home values in Raven, VA rose 2.2% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Raven, Russell County, Virginia
Raven, in Russell County, had 1,988 people in the 2020 census. Unemployment in Russell County was 4.6% in August 2026, and the county had 0.3% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Russell County work in schools and health care, then shops.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Raven is a small community in Russell County, in the mountains of southwest Virginia. Homes here cost far less than the national typical, and the winters are cold and snowy while the summers stay warm but not extreme. Rain and melted snow fall through the year, and the coldest weather comes in January.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, in manufacturing and in the building trades. Across Russell County, the largest workplaces include Russell County Public Schools, Russell County Hospital and Walmart. Few people work from home, and the typical commute is a fairly long one.
Things to do. Little River is a short drive away and is the nearest place to spend time by the water. Farther afield, Hungry Mother State Park is a protected area a longer drive away, as is Breaks Interstate Park. The Barter Theatre is also a longer drive away, for an evening out.
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- 13%below the poverty line
- 27 mintypical commute
- 6%work from home
What people in Russell County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Russell County had 6,134 jobs in 2025, 0.3% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 44° and lows near 23°; warmest in July, with highs near 83° and lows near 62°. About 18 inches of snow and 45 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Richlands weather station, 4 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Russell County
- Russell County Public SchoolsSchool district594FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters254
- Samuel Pressure Vessel Group LebanonCylinders, pressure, heavy gauge metal, manufacturing228
- Russell County HospitalGeneral hospital127FTE
- K VA T Food StoresSupermarket93
- ClecoHighway construction91
- JennmarCoal and ore conveyors manufacturing43
- American Electric Power32
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 10 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 952 people in all across the county; Raven 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
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- DroughtRelatively moderate
- Cold wavesRelatively 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 Raven’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 Russell County and the Bluefield, WV-VA metro.
Raven home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Raven$91,712
- 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.
- Raven6
Zip codes with a Raven address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Raven — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.