Whitetop, Virginia.
Typical home $179,485 (+4.0% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$537 (+133%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $6,928 +4%
- $172,557$179,485 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $41,369 +30%
- $138,116$179,485 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.
- Whitetop$942
- 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 Whitetop, VA rose 4.0% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Whitetop, Grayson County, Virginia
The Census does not count Whitetop on its own, so the figures here are Grayson County's. Half the county's households earn more than $47,730 a year and half less; 16% of the county's people live below the poverty line. 80% of the county's homes are lived in by their owners and 20% are rented. Unemployment in Grayson County was 3.4% in August 2026, and the county had 4.7% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Grayson 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Whitetop is a small mountain community in Grayson County, Virginia. Across the county, most homes are lived in by their owners, and many residents are middle-aged or older. Winters are cold with a fair amount of snow, summers are mild, and a good deal of rain falls through the year.
Work. Across Grayson County, many people work in schools, hospitals and social care, in manufacturing, in government, or in shops. The number of jobs fell over the past year, though unemployment has eased compared with a year earlier. Working from home is uncommon, and a smaller share of adults hold a four-year degree than across much of the country.
Things to do. Mount Rogers National Recreation Area and Whitetop Mountain, a protected area, are in or beside town. Grayson Highlands State Park, a protected area, is a short drive away. Cascade Falls, a waterfall, is a longer drive away.
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- 6,337households
- 48.4median age
- 16%of adults have a degree
- 16%below the poverty line
- 28 mintypical commute
- 5%work from home
What people in Grayson County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Grayson County had 3,254 jobs in 2025, 4.7% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 46° and lows near 23°; warmest in July, with highs near 82° and lows near 60°. About 12 inches of snow and 47 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Mountain City weather station, 16 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Grayson County
- VadocCorrectional institutions330
- Grayson County Public SchoolsSchool district321FTE
- Real performance machinerySawmill equipment manufacturing100
- K VA T Food StoresSupermarket96
- Avardis HealthSkilled nursing facilities85
- Woodgrain MillworkSawmills68
- DSV Solutions IDCGeneral warehousing and storage37
- Core Health & Fitness, LLC - VirginiaAmmunition, sporting, merchant wholesalers36
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 12 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 899 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
- LandslidesRelatively moderate
- Cold wavesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms across Grayson 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 Grayson County.
Whitetop home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Whitetop$179,485
- 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.
Zip codes with a Whitetop address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Whitetop — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.