Amma, West Virginia.
Typical home $167,723 (+4.4% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$60 (+7%) since Jan 2024.
- 1 year
- Up $7,004 +4%
- $160,719$167,723 since Sep 2025
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.
- Amma$880
- West Virginia$927
- United States$1,922
Typical home values in Amma, WV rose 4.4% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Amma, Roane County, West Virginia
The Census does not count Amma on its own, so the figures here are Roane County's. Half the county's households earn more than $45,778 a year and half less; 19% of the county's people live below the poverty line. 79% of the county's homes are lived in by their owners and 21% are rented. Unemployment in Roane County was 5.5% in August 2026, and the county had 4.7% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Roane 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Amma is a small town in Roane County, West Virginia, where the county's typical resident is older than the typical American. Most homes across the county are lived in by their owners, and household incomes are lower than the national typical. Winters are cold, summers are warm, and the area gets a fair amount of snow and rain.
Work. Schools, hospitals and social care, manufacturing, retail shops, and farming, forestry and mining are the main kinds of work residents do. Jobs across the county have been falling, and unemployment is higher than a year earlier. Commutes tend to be longer than in many places, and few residents work from home.
Things to do. Wallback Wildlife Management Area, a protected area a short drive away, and Pad Fork, a river also a short drive away, are good choices for time outdoors. For an evening out, the Robey Theatre in Spencer is a longer drive away.
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- 5,704households
- 46.9median age
- 15%of adults have a degree
- 19%below the poverty line
- 33 mintypical commute
- 6%work from home
What people in Roane County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Roane County had 2,749 jobs in 2025, 4.7% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 42° and lows near 24°; warmest in July, with highs near 86° and lows near 65°. About 18 inches of snow and 53 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Clendenin weather station, 8 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Roane County
- Roane County SchoolsSchool district278FTE
- Roane General HospitalCritical access hospital218FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters179
- ArmacellMattress protectors, rubber, manufacturing53
- Rock Forge BridgeBridge construction53
- Miletree CenterSkilled nursing facilities52
- ArmacellPackaging, foam plastics, manufacturing30
- 2-2-0 Corporation dba Star WeldChemical gases merchant wholesalers24
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 7 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 740 people in all. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (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
- LandslidesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms across Roane County, 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 Roane County.
Amma home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Amma$167,723
- West Virginia$176,576
- 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 Amma address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Amma — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.