Arbovale, West Virginia.
Typical home $166,449 (+4.1% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$470 (+117%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $6,626 +4%
- $159,822$166,449 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $24,521 +17%
- $141,928$166,449 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.
- Arbovale$874
- West Virginia$927
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 22 years.
Typical home values in Arbovale, WV rose 4.1% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Arbovale, Pocahontas County, West Virginia
Arbovale, in Pocahontas County, had 134 people in the 2020 census. Unemployment in Pocahontas County was 4.2% in August 2026, and the county had 0.8% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Pocahontas County work in schools and health care, then shops.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Arbovale is a very small community in Pocahontas County, West Virginia, in the mountains of the state's eastern side. Homes here are valued well below what is typical across much of the country, and incomes across the county run below the state's own. Winters are cold and snowy, and summers stay mild.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with others in shops, the building trades and professional and business services. Across Pocahontas County, the largest workplaces include Snowshee Mountain, Pocahontas County Schools and Pocahontas Memorial Hospital. Unemployment across the county is no different from a year ago, and the number of jobs has edged up slightly.
Things to do. Monongahela National Forest, a protected area, is a short drive away, as is Cass Scenic Railroad State Park, a museum of the old logging railroad. Seneca State Forest is also a short drive from town. Hospital Run, a small river, flows in or beside town itself.
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What people in Pocahontas County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Pocahontas County had 2,999 jobs in 2025, 0.8% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 35° and lows near 17°; warmest in July, with highs near 77° and lows near 56°. About 67 inches of snow and 44 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Bartow 1S weather station, 7 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Pocahontas County
- Snowshoe MountainConcession operators, amusement device and ride1,763
- Pocahontas County SchoolsSchool district193FTE
- Pocahontas Memorial HospitalCritical access hospital128FTE
- Genesis Health CareNursing homes50
- Burns Motor FreightTrucking, general freight, long-distance, truckload46
- Judy FencecraftFencing, prefabricated sections, wood, manufacturing29
- Forest ServiceFederal government · Department of Agriculture24
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 4 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,888 people in all across the county; Arbovale has none of its own. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24), hospitals from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023) and federal offices from OPM's federal workforce data (2026); 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
- LightningRelatively high
- LandslidesRelatively moderate
- Cold wavesRelatively moderate
- Winter weatherRelatively moderate
- Inland floodingRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Arbovale’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 Pocahontas County.
Arbovale home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Arbovale$166,449
- 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.
Market heat, inside the city limits
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Arbovale5
Zip codes with a Arbovale address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Arbovale — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.
Zip codes in Arbovale
| Zip activate to sort by Zip | Place activate to sort by Place | Population sorted descending, activate to sort ascending | Rent activate to sort by Rent | Home value activate to sort by Home value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 24915 | Arbovale | 505 | — | $170,413 |
| 24920 | Bartow | 356 | — | $123,117 |