Sutherlin, Virginia.
Typical home $172,404 (+4.2% in a year). Danville, VA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$485 (+115%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $6,895 +4%
- $165,509$172,404 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $38,495 +29%
- $133,909$172,404 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.
- Sutherlin$905
- 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 Sutherlin, VA rose 4.2% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Sutherlin, Pittsylvania County, Virginia
The Census does not count Sutherlin on its own, so the figures here are Pittsylvania County's. Half the county's households earn more than $54,085 a year and half less; 15% of the county's people live below the poverty line. 79% of the county's homes are lived in by their owners and 21% are rented. Unemployment in Pittsylvania County was 3.9% in August 2026, and the county had 1.1% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Pittsylvania 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Sutherlin lies in Pittsylvania County in south-central Virginia, where most households own the homes they live in and the population skews older than in much of the country. Across the county, household incomes sit below the national norm, and a share of residents live under the poverty line. Winters are cold with light snowfall, summers are hot, and rain falls steadily through the year.
Work. Most residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, manufacturing, shops, or the building trades. Jobs in the county grew slightly last year, and unemployment has eased over the past year. Working from home is uncommon here.
Things to do. Virginia International Raceway, a race track, is a short drive away, and Bar Branch, a river, is also close by. Staunton River State Park, a protected area, lies a longer drive off and suits a fuller day out.
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- 25,020households
- 48.1median age
- 16%of adults have a degree
- 15%below the poverty line
- 27 mintypical commute
- 6%work from home
What people in Pittsylvania County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Pittsylvania County had 13,000 jobs in 2025, 1.1% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 49° and lows near 28°; warmest in July, with highs near 89° and lows near 67°. About 8 inches of snow and 44 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Danville Regional Airport weather station, 10 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Pittsylvania County
- Pittsylvania County Public SchoolsSchool district1,425FTE
- Caesars VirginiaHotels, resort, with casinos1,293
- Tyson FarmsPoultry processing629
- Unique Industries - BlairsIndustrial supplies, disposable plastics, paper, merchant wholesalers541
- Intertape Polymer Group325
- Virginia Dept. Of CorrectionsCorrectional institutions296
- JTI Leaf Services (US)Tobacco leaf processing and aging278
- Universal Health ServicesRes mental health substance abuse facilit193
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 43 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 5,934 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
- Inland floodingRelatively moderate
- DroughtRelatively moderate
- Winter weatherRelatively moderate
- Ice stormsRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms across Pittsylvania County, 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 Pittsylvania County and the Danville, VA metro.
Sutherlin home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Sutherlin$172,404
- 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.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a Sutherlin address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Sutherlin — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.