Union Hall, Virginia.
Typical home $855,159 (+2.9% in a year). Roanoke, VA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$2,821 (+169%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $24,438 +3%
- $830,722$855,159 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $248,165 +41%
- $606,995$855,159 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.
- Union Hall$4,489
- 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 Union Hall, VA rose 2.9% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Union Hall, Franklin County, Virginia
Union Hall, in Franklin County, had 1,328 people in the 2020 census. Half its households earn more than $103,125 a year and half less, against $68,849 across Franklin County; 4% of its people live below the poverty line. 96% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 4% are rented. Unemployment in Franklin County was 3.6% in August 2026, and the county had 0.9% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Franklin 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Union Hall is a small community in Franklin County, Virginia, where an older population is the norm and nearly everyone owns the home they live in. Household incomes run well above the county's, and few residents live below the poverty line. A large share of adults hold a four-year degree, and homes here are valued far higher than in much of the surrounding area. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month and nights that stay well below freezing, summers turn hot, and the year brings a modest amount of snow alongside plenty of rain.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, shops, and restaurants, hotels and entertainment also employing many. Across Franklin County, some of the largest workplaces are Franklin County Public Schools, Plygem Rocky Mount - US Windows, and Carilion Franklin Memorial Hospital. Unemployment in the county is about where it stood a year ago, and the county added a few more jobs last year than the year before. The typical commute is a long one.
Things to do. Smith Mountain Lake, a large reservoir, and Smith Mountain Lake State Park are both a short drive away, as is the Booker T. Washington National Monument, a museum honoring the educator's early life. For a longer outing, Martinsville Speedway is a race track a longer drive away. The Gwin Dudley Home Site, an archaeological site, sits in or beside town.
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- 595households
- 53%of adults have a degree
- 4%below the poverty line
- 32 mintypical commute
What people in Franklin County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Franklin County had 15,810 jobs in 2025, 0.9% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 47° and lows near 26°; warmest in July, with highs near 87° and lows near 65°. About 13 inches of snow and 49 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Rocky Mount weather station, 12 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Franklin County
- Franklin County Public SchoolsSchool district1,479FTE
- Plygem Rocky Mount - US WindowsWindows and window frames, vinyl, manufacturing1,268
- Franklin CountyGeneral services departments, government563
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters288
- Ferrum CollegeUniversity or college266
- Carilion Franklin Memorial HospitalGeneral hospital254FTE
- Cavco Industries321991219
- Riverbend EnterprisesFoundation, building, poured concrete, contractors167
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 26 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 4,706 people in all across the county; Union Hall has none of its own. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24), colleges from IPEDS (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
- Strong windRelatively moderate
- Inland floodingRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively 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 Union Hall’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 Franklin County and the Roanoke, VA metro.
Union Hall home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Union Hall$855,159
- Virginia$412,252
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 3 Union Hall 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.
- Union Hall36.48%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Union Hall21
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a Union Hall address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Union Hall — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.