Rocky Mount, Virginia.
Typical home $275,290 (+4.9% in a year), asking rent $949 . Roanoke, VA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$855 (+145%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $12,798 +5%
- $262,491$275,290 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $76,987 +39%
- $198,303$275,290 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.
- Rocky Mount$1,445
- 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 Rocky Mount, VA rose 4.9% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Rocky Mount, Franklin County, Virginia
Rocky Mount is a town of 4,903 people in Franklin County. Half its households earn more than $63,280 a year and half less, against $68,849 across Franklin County; 19% of its people live below the poverty line. 56% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 44% are rented. Unemployment in Franklin County was 3.6% in August 2026, and the county had 0.9% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in schools and health care, then manufacturing.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Rocky Mount is the town at the center of Franklin County, Virginia, and it is a small place where people tend to be older than in many US communities. Incomes in town run below the county's, and most homes are lived in by their owners. Winters are cold and summers warm, with some snow each winter and plenty of rain through the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, shops, and restaurants and hotels also employing many. Among the largest workplaces in Rocky Mount are Franklin County Public Schools, Carilion Franklin Memorial Hospital and Walmart. Commutes are on the longer side, and a modest number of people work from home.
Things to do. Grassy Hill Natural Area Preserve is a protected area in or beside town, good for a walk close to home. The Pigg River is a short drive away. For a longer outing, the Booker T. Washington National Monument is a museum a longer drive away, and Smith Mountain Lake State Park is a protected area on the water, also a longer drive.
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- 2,059households
- 22%of adults have a degree
- 19%below the poverty line
- 26 mintypical commute
- 10%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Franklin County had 15,810 jobs in 2025, 0.9% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 47° and lows near 26°; warmest in July, with highs near 87° and lows near 65°. About 13 inches of snow and 49 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Rocky Mount weather station, 2 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Rocky Mount
- Franklin County Public SchoolsSchool district1,479FTE
- Plygem Rocky Mount - US WindowsWindows and window frames, vinyl, manufacturing1,268
- Franklin CountyGeneral services departments, government563
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters288
- Carilion Franklin Memorial HospitalGeneral hospital254FTE
- Cavco Industries321991219
- Lowe's Companies, INCHomecenter127
- Franklin FacilityNursing homes125
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 15 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 3,829 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
- Strong windRelatively high
- DroughtRelatively moderate
- Lightningrelatively high in parts of Rocky MountRelatively moderate
- Winter weatherRelatively moderate
- Inland floodingRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Rocky Mount’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 Franklin County and the Roanoke, VA metro.
Rocky Mount home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Rocky Mount$275,290
- Virginia$412,252
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 3 Rocky Mount listings, and the typical home goes pending in 32 days — the market is cooling.
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
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.
- Rocky Mount37.89%
- United States26.90%
Days to pending
How long the typical listing takes to go under contract.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Rocky Mount79
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Rocky Mount15
Zip codes with a Rocky Mount address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Rocky Mount — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.