Tazewell, Virginia.
Typical home $164,010 (+5.4% in a year). Bluefield, WV-VA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$455 (+112%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $8,441 +5%
- $155,569$164,010 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $38,201 +30%
- $125,809$164,010 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.
- Tazewell$861
- 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 Tazewell, VA rose 5.4% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Tazewell, Tazewell County, Virginia
Tazewell is a town of 4,486 people in Tazewell County. Half its households earn more than $34,618 a year and half less, against $47,313 across Tazewell County; 25% of its people live below the poverty line. 58% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 42% are rented. Unemployment in Tazewell County was 5.0% in August 2026, and the county had 2.5% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in schools and health care, then restaurants and hotels.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Tazewell is a small town in southwest Virginia, with residents who are older than in much of the country. Incomes here run well below the county's, and more people live below the poverty line than is typical, though most homes are lived in by their owners. Winters are cold and snowy, summers are mild, and rain and melted snow fall steadily through the year.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, with others in restaurants and hotels, manufacturing, and professional and business services. Some of the largest workplaces in town are Carilion Tazewell Community Hospital, American HealthCare, a nursing care facility, and Food Lion. Across Tazewell County, unemployment is a little lower than a year ago, though there are fewer jobs than the year before, and relatively few adults in town hold a four-year degree.
Things to do. Beartown Wilderness, a protected area, is a short drive away, as is the Big Crab Orchard Site, an archaeological site. For a longer day out, Hungry Mother State Park is a longer drive away, and Big Walker Lookout, a tourist attraction, is also a longer drive away.
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- 1,789households
- 16%of adults have a degree
- 25%below the poverty line
- 26 mintypical commute
- 6%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Tazewell County had 13,374 jobs in 2025, 2.5% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 39° and lows near 21°; warmest in July, with highs near 79° and lows near 57°. About 47 inches of snow and 48 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Burkes Garden weather station, 10 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Tazewell
- American HealthCareNursing care facilities165
- Clinch Valley Community ActionHabilitation job counseling and training, vocational117
- Carilion Tazewell Community HospitalGeneral hospital115FTE
- Simmons Equipment CompanyCars, mining, manufacturing96
- Food LionGrocery stores80
- Southwest Virginia Regional Jail Authority Tazewell FacilityJails47
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 6 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 785 people in all. Hospitals come 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
- Cold wavesrelatively high in parts of TazewellRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively moderate
- Inland floodingRelatively moderate
- Winter weatherRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Tazewell’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 Tazewell County and the Bluefield, WV-VA metro.
Tazewell home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Tazewell$164,010
- Virginia$412,252
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 6 Tazewell 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.
- Tazewell18.18%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Tazewell25
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Tazewell7
Zip codes with a Tazewell address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Tazewell — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.