The story of this market
The typical home in Pittsylvania County, Virginia sells for about $270,190, or $155 per square foot.
Prices are up +11.2% from a year ago, so sellers still have some momentum. Homes take about 67 days to sell, which is slow. Over the long run, values in this county have grown 72% since 2000. Last year 8 of 16 neighborhoods saw prices rise, so the story isn't the same street to street. HUD's fair market rent for a two-bedroom is $943 a month.
HUD sets the fair market rent for a 2-bedroom at $943 a month. FEMA's National Risk Index rates overall hazard risk here as Relatively Low.
Price climate
Every year of price change, 2000–2025
0%
2025
Each stripe is one year's median price change across the area's census tracts (FHFA repeat-sales index). Deep blue is a strong gain year, red a falling year. Best: 2022 (+13.4%). Worst: 2010 (-3%). Hover to read a year.
Monthly price momentum
Home values since 2015
+2.6%
VA · past 12 months
Freddie Mac House Price Index, single-family homes, monthly through 2026-08. Each line starts at 100 in January 2015, so a reading of 180 means prices are up 80% since then.
Rent benchmark
Fair market rent by size
$1,289
3-bed / month
HUD Fair Market Rents, fiscal 2027, for this county. A typical rent for a modest unit, used to set housing-voucher payments.
Neighborhood price trend
Long-run price trend, 2000–2025
0%
2025 change
FHFA repeat-sales index, median of 16 census tracts in this county (2000 = 100). Bars are each year's median change.
Natural hazard exposure
The area's risk shape
32
Relatively Low
FEMA National Risk Index. Each spoke is a hazard ranked nationally, where 100 is the most exposed. Expected annual loss: $16,515,326.
Mortgage activity
Home lending in this county
71.9%
2018 approval rate
| Year | Applications | Loans made | Approval | Investor share | Median home value |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | 1752 | 866 | 71.9% | 5.1% | $150,000 |
CFPB Home Mortgage Disclosure Act records: every mortgage application reported by lenders for homes in this county. Approval rate is approved ÷ decided (withdrawn and incomplete files excluded). Investor share and home value are the median census tract.
Pittsylvania County, Virginia
Pittsylvania County's housing market shows strong price appreciation with a 11.2% year-over-year increase in median sale price. Inventory remains constrained with 136 active listings, while sales activity has shown growth compared to the previous year.
No ARED distress-ledger coverage for this county yet — the foreclosure ingest rotates the national county directory, and filings appear here once the county's posted notices are read. Key-figure check: no independent anchor retained yet — first-researched cycles establish the anchor baseline this pass.
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Median prices moved down 7.1% year over year.
Homes spend a median of 36 days on market with 3.6 months of supply — a fast-moving market.
34% of listings have cut prices · homes sell at 98.29% of asking — demand is holding steady.
no recorded foreclosure-ledger notices (0.0 per 10,000 residents) · unemployment 3.9% · poverty 0.0% — a stable, low-distress profile.
ACS 2024 5-year estimates. Aggregate published statistics for this county — never individual records, and never an attribute of any individual property or resident.
Deterministic aggregate of 2 researched ZIP reports — sales_count-weighted (population fallback); per point, children lacking the value or its weight are excluded. Tax rates, sentiment and context notes are tier-native and never roll.
No researched properties in this county yet — the property base layer populates as property research runs, and each property feeds its ZIP's roll-up.
No researched ZIP reports yet — ZIP discovery runs with the county's first refresh, and each ZIP's intel report appears here once its research lands.
The county focuses on business retention, expansion, and attraction through its dedicated Economic Development Department.
The median rent in the county is $910 per month with a year-over-year rent price change of -1.09%.
The county economy is supported by business retention and expansion efforts, with an unemployment rate of 3.9% as of May 2026.
Data sourced from U.S. Census Bureau and Data Commons.