Augusta, West Virginia.
Typical home $263,180 (+2.7% in a year). Winchester, VA-WV metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$803 (+139%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $6,816 +3%
- $256,364$263,180 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $68,631 +35%
- $194,549$263,180 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.
- Augusta$1,381
- West Virginia$927
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 11 years.
Typical home values in Augusta, WV rose 2.7% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Augusta, Hampshire County, West Virginia
The Census does not count Augusta on its own, so the figures here are Hampshire County's. Half the county's households earn more than $63,116 a year and half less; 13% of the county's people live below the poverty line. 83% of the county's homes are lived in by their owners and 17% are rented. Unemployment in Hampshire County was 3.7% in August 2026, and the county had 0.1% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Hampshire 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Augusta is a small town in Hampshire County, in the Eastern Panhandle of West Virginia. Across the county, residents are older on average than most of the country, and most homes are lived in by their owners. Poverty is more common than across the country as a whole, and typical home values are modest. Winters are cold and snowy, summers are warm, and rain falls steadily through the year.
Work. Many people work in schools, hospitals and social care, in manufacturing, in the building trades, or for government. Unemployment has eased slightly over the past year, and the number of jobs has stayed roughly level. Commutes are long, longer than most of the country's, and few people work from home.
Things to do. Bearwallow Creek runs in or beside the town, so the river is close at hand. Edwards Run Wildlife Management Area, a protected area, is a short drive away. Literary Hall, a museum, is also a short drive away.
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- 8,643households
- 48.5median age
- 18%of adults have a degree
- 13%below the poverty line
- 42 mintypical commute
- 9%work from home
What people in Hampshire County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Hampshire County had 4,248 jobs in 2025, 0.1% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 40° and lows near 21°; warmest in July, with highs near 86° and lows near 61°. About 29 inches of snow and 38 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Romney Southwest weather station, 10 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Hampshire County
- Hampshire County SchoolsSchool district432FTE
- Hampshire Memorial HospitalCritical access hospital115FTE
- Food LionGrocery stores95
- Genesis HealthcareHomes for the elderly with nursing care56
- Valley Regional EnterpriseHome health care agencies44
- Northern EagleAlcoholic beverages, wine and distilled spirits merchant wholesalers40
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 5 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 401 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 Hampshire County, against the rest of the country; all of them together, very 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 Hampshire County and the Winchester, VA-WV metro.
Augusta home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Augusta$263,180
- West Virginia$176,576
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 3 Augusta listings — the market is roughly in balance.
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
Share of listings with a price cut
The early-warning dial: sellers cut when buyers stop reaching. Rising cuts cool a market months before prices notice.
- Augusta29.61%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Augusta21
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Augusta5
Zip codes with a Augusta address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Augusta — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.
Zip codes in Augusta
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 26704 | Augusta | 5,148 | — | $266,401 |
| 26714 | Delray | 441 | — | $177,732 |