About this Recovery Home
Oxford House Raleigh Court — Sober Living in Roanoke, Virginia
Listed at 2135 Sherwood Avenue SW, Roanoke, VA, Oxford House Raleigh Court is a peer-run recovery residence for women. The residence reports 7 beds and 3 reported openings. Roanoke County is the surrounding county.
Oxford House Raleigh Court — residence information
- Address: 2135 Sherwood Avenue SW, Roanoke, VA 24015
- County: Roanoke
- Resident group: women
- Reported capacity: 7 residents
- Reported vacancies: 3 reported openings
- Interview schedule: Sunday at 6:00pm
- Contact: Contact Carolyn at (540) 793-8207
- House phone: (540) 344-2201
- Map: View the reported location
At 7 beds it is smaller than most of the 186 Oxford Houses listed in Virginia. The last report put 4 of those 7 beds in use, leaving 3 reported openings. Interview times are listed as Sunday at 6:00pm. Contact Carolyn at (540) 793-8207 to confirm the opening, the interview time and what is needed to move in.
Cost of recovery housing in Virginia
Across Virginia, sober living generally runs about $200 a week. An Oxford House does not set a rent — members split what the house actually costs to run, so the figure here is a guide to the market, not to this home. For scale, renting privately in Virginia has a median gross rent of $1,579 a month. Help with the share is available through state programmes including OAA opioid-settlement grants and DBHDS/VARR indigent-bed grants. Virginia Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services is the state body to start with.
How the Oxford House model works, and how to apply
Oxford Houses are managed day to day by their residents, supported entirely by the residents' own contributions and abstinence-based by rule. New members are chosen by the existing membership, so an opening is not the same thing as an acceptance.
Recovery housing standards in Virginia
No state licence is required to run a recovery residence in Virginia. Virginia Association of Recovery Residences (VARR) runs the voluntary certification scheme as the state's NARR affiliate. Because Oxford Houses are chartered nationally by Oxford House, Inc. rather than certified locally, they seldom show on a state registry. The state's list of certified residences is published here. Protection runs from the federal Fair Housing Act and Virginia Fair Housing Law (Code of Virginia Section 36-96.3).
Other Oxford Houses near Roanoke, VA
The closest other Oxford Houses in this directory are Oxford House Tarpley Park in Roanoke, about 0.6 miles away; Oxford House Star City in Roanoke, about 0.7 miles away; Oxford House Wasena in Roanoke, about 1.6 miles away — straight-line distances, not driving routes. This directory lists 14 in Roanoke, 15 across Roanoke County, 186 in Virginia. Browse recovery housing in Roanoke or sober living across Virginia.
This reflects a vacancy report from 09/07/2026. Interview nights and contacts are both liable to change. Confirm with the current members before acting on this.
Oxford House in Virginia
Oxford House is a publicly supported, non-profit network connecting all Oxford House recovery homes or sober houses. Oxford House sober living is a concept in recovery for a democratically run, self-supporting and drug free home. Homes range from six to fifteen; there is sober living for men, sober houses for women, and some recovery homes for women with children. Read more about Oxford House and the Sober House Directory.
In Virginia, Oxford House offers sober living typically with very reasonable cost and promoting resident recovery through a peer-supported model run by the men and women in the sober house. Established in 1975 and continuing to this day, Oxford House boasts over 2,000 homes and growing across the globe.
The Sober House Business
Oxford House offers a platform for peer-lead recovery homes. If you are interested in opening a sober house as a business venture, get in touch with Vanderburgh Communities for more information.
