Rosedale, Virginia.
Typical home $230,327 (+9.2% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$636 (+111%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $19,459 +9%
- $210,868$230,327 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $51,539 +29%
- $178,787$230,327 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.
- Rosedale$1,209
- Virginia$2,164
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 14 years.
Typical home values in Rosedale, VA rose 9.2% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Rosedale, Russell County, Virginia
The Census does not count Rosedale on its own, so the figures here are Russell County's. Half the county's households earn more than $50,012 a year and half less; 17% of the county's people live below the poverty line. 76% of the county's homes are lived in by their owners and 24% are rented. 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 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Rosedale is a small town in Russell County, in the mountains of southwest Virginia. Across the county, most homes are lived in by their owners, and many residents are middle-aged or older. Household incomes tend to sit below the national typical level, and a meaningful share of people live below the poverty line. Winters are cold, summers are warm, and rain and snow both come in good measure through the year.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, or in shops, with manufacturing and the building trades also providing work. Jobs in the county have dipped slightly over the past year, while unemployment has held steady. Relatively few adults hold a four-year degree, and few people work from home.
Things to do. Little River is a river a short drive away, good for a quiet walk or an afternoon by the water. Hungry Mother State Park is a protected area a longer drive away, and Clinch Mountain Wildlife Management Area, a protected area, is a short drive away. For a night out, the Barter Theatre is a theatre a longer drive away.
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- 10,669households
- 46.7median age
- 13%of adults have a degree
- 17%below the poverty line
- 30 mintypical commute
- 5%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 45° and lows near 23°; warmest in July, with highs near 84° and lows near 61°. About 12 inches of snow and 46 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Lebanon weather station, 6 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. 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
- LandslidesRelatively moderate
- Cold wavesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms across Russell 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 Russell County.
Rosedale home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Rosedale$230,327
- 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.
- Rosedale5
Zip codes with a Rosedale address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Rosedale — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.