Artie, West Virginia.
Typical home $77,121 (-4.1% in a year). Beckley, WV metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$201 (+99%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $3,269 -4%
- $80,390$77,121 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $3,906 +5%
- $73,215$77,121 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.
- Artie$405
- West Virginia$927
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 67 years.
Typical home values in Artie, WV fell 4.1% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Artie, Fayette County, West Virginia
The Census does not count Artie on its own, so the figures here are Fayette County's. Half the county's households earn more than $53,194 a year and half less; 19% of the county's people live below the poverty line. 78% of the county's homes are lived in by their owners and 22% are rented. Unemployment in Fayette County was 4.3% in August 2026, and the county had 1.3% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Fayette County work in schools and health care, then shops.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Artie is a small community in Fayette County, West Virginia. Across Fayette County, most homes are lived in by their owners, and the people are older on average than across the country. Incomes are lower than the country's, and more residents live below the poverty line than in most of the nation. Typical home values are well below those elsewhere in the country.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, in restaurants, hotels and entertainment, or in the building trades. Across the county, fewer people are out of work than a year ago, and job numbers have edged upward. Fewer adults hold a four-year degree than in most of the country, and few people work from home, so most commutes are to a workplace outside the house.
Things to do. Cabin Creek, a river, runs in or beside the town itself. New River Gorge National Park and Preserve, a protected area, is a longer drive away. Babcock State Park, also a protected area, lies a longer drive away as well.
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- 15,948households
- 44.7median age
- 16%of adults have a degree
- 19%below the poverty line
- 30 mintypical commute
- 7%work from home
What people in Fayette County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Fayette County had 10,398 jobs in 2025, 1.3% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 41° and lows near 23°; warmest in July, with highs near 81° and lows near 61°. About 48 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Oak Hill weather station, 11 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Fayette County
- Fayette County SchoolsSchool district796FTE
- AramarkHotels and motels435
- Plateau Medical CenterCritical access hospital286FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters282
- BridgeValley Community & Technical CollegeTwo-year college240
- FerroglobeElectrometallurgical ferroalloy manufacturing183
- Montgomery General HospitalCritical access hospital175FTE
- Lowe's Companies, INCHomecenter121
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 19 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,838 people in all. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24), hospitals from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023) and colleges from IPEDS (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
- LightningRelatively high
- LandslidesRelatively moderate
- Winter weatherRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms across Fayette 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 Fayette County and the Beckley, WV metro.
Artie home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Artie$77,121
- 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 Artie address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Artie — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.
Zillow publishes no zip-level series with this city on the address.