Spout Spring, Virginia.
Typical home $304,584 (+9.0% in a year). Lynchburg, VA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$957 (+149%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $25,126 +9%
- $279,458$304,584 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $86,639 +40%
- $217,946$304,584 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.
- Spout Spring$1,599
- Virginia$2,164
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 10 years.
Typical home values in Spout Spring, VA rose 9.0% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Spout Spring, Appomattox County, Virginia
The Census does not count Spout Spring on its own, so the figures here are Appomattox County's. Half the county's households earn more than $62,853 a year and half less; 14% 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 Appomattox County was 3.3% in August 2026, and the county had 1.6% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Appomattox 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Spout Spring sits in Appomattox County in central Virginia, where most homes are lived in by their owners rather than rented. Residents are older on average than the country's typical person, and the area has a lower share of adults with a four-year degree than the nation as a whole. Winters are cold with only light snow, summers are warm, and the county gets more rain than many parts of the country.
Work. Across Appomattox County, many people work in schools, hospitals and social care, manufacturing, shops, and the building trades. Joblessness has held steady over the past year, and employment has edged up recently. Few people work from home, so most commute to a workplace outside the house, and the typical trip takes a good while.
Things to do. Appomattox Court House National Historical Park, a protected area a short drive away, preserves the site of the Civil War surrender in the nineteenth century. Holliday Lake State Park, a longer drive away, is another protected area with open land for outdoor visits. The Lynchburg Courthouse, a museum a longer drive away, offers a look at the region's history.
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- 6,639households
- 43.2median age
- 19%of adults have a degree
- 14%below the poverty line
- 27 mintypical commute
- 10%work from home
What people in Appomattox County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Appomattox County had 3,660 jobs in 2025, 1.6% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 45° and lows near 27°; warmest in July, with highs near 86° and lows near 67°. About 11 inches of snow and 46 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Appomattox weather station, 5 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Appomattox County
- Appomattox County Public SchoolsSchool district404FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters226
- Virginia State PoliceLaw enforcement175
- Kroger Mid-Atlantic KMASupermarkets and other grocery except convenience stores84
- Appomattox Care CenterNursing homes70
- StallWorks50
- Jamerson Building SupplyHome centers, building materials35
- Virginia Department of TransportationHighway repair maintenance23
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 8 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 683 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
FEMA rates every natural hazard here relatively low or very low.
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms across Appomattox 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 Appomattox County and the Lynchburg, VA metro.
Spout Spring home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Spout Spring$304,584
- 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.
- Spout Spring7
Zip codes with a Spout Spring address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Spout Spring — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.