Rustburg, Virginia.
Typical home $283,328 (+1.6% in a year), asking rent $1,885 . Lynchburg, VA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$826 (+125%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $4,428 +2%
- $278,900$283,328 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $68,054 +32%
- $215,274$283,328 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.
- Rustburg$1,487
- Virginia$2,164
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 13 years.
Typical home values in Rustburg, VA rose 1.6% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Rustburg, Campbell County, Virginia
Rustburg, in Campbell County, had 1,281 people in the 2020 census. Half its households earn more than $72,950 a year and half less, against $66,165 across Campbell County. Unemployment in Campbell County was 3.5% in August 2026, and the county had 1.3% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Campbell County 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Rustburg is a small community and the seat of Campbell County, in the Virginia Piedmont. Household incomes here run above the county's, and homes are valued at a level many in the region would call comfortable. Winters are cold, though not severe, with some snow each year, and summers turn hot in July; the rain and melted snow add up to a fair amount through the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, retail and professional and business services close behind. A good number work from home. Across Campbell County, some of the largest workplaces are BWXT NOG Lynchburg, a plate fabrication manufacturer, Campbell County Public Schools, and Abbott, which makes dairy products. Unemployment sits where it did a year ago, and the county has added a few more jobs over the past year.
Things to do. Mosquito Creek runs in or beside town, and Dreaming Creek is a short drive away, both good for a quiet walk along the water. The Anne Spencer House, a museum, is also a short drive away. For a longer outing, Appomattox Court House National Historical Park is a protected area and a longer drive away.
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- 10%work from home
What people in Campbell County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Campbell County had 18,718 jobs in 2025, 1.3% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 46° and lows near 26°; warmest in July, with highs near 87° and lows near 65°. About 12 inches of snow and 43 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Lynchburg Regional Airport weather station, 7 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Campbell County
- BWXT NOG LynchburgFabricated plate work manufacturing2,200
- Campbell County Public SchoolsSchool district1,292FTE
- AbbottDry condensed and evap dairy product manufacturing831
- Moore's Electrical & MechanicalHeating, ventilation and air-conditioning contractors637
- Lyhdip312
- BGF IndustriesBroadwoven fabrics weaving301
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters284
- Sonny MerrymanSchool bus merchant wholesalers174
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 52 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 7,491 people in all across the county; Rustburg has two of its own. 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
- LightningRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- 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 Rustburg’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 Campbell County and the Lynchburg, VA metro.
Rustburg home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Rustburg$283,328
- Virginia$412,252
- United States$366,157
Levy by levy, and a check of one home’s own bill, the site covers Ohio’s property tax.
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 3 Rustburg 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.
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.
- Rustburg32.08%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Rustburg48
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Rustburg16
Zip codes with a Rustburg address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Rustburg — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.