Barrackville, West Virginia.
Typical home $158,647 (-2.5% in a year). Fairmont, WV metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$365 (+78%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $4,150 -3%
- $162,798$158,647 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $13,663 +9%
- $144,984$158,647 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.
- Barrackville$833
- West Virginia$927
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 38 years.
Typical home values in Barrackville, WV fell 2.5% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Barrackville, Marion County, West Virginia
Barrackville is a town of 1,201 people in Marion County. 96% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 4% are rented. Unemployment in Marion County was 4.1% in August 2026, and the county had 1.4% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Marion 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Barrackville is a small town in Marion County, West Virginia, where nearly everyone lives in a home they own. Poverty is low, and homes cost less than in much of the country. Winters are cold, with highs and lows sitting below freezing at night, summers are warm, and rain and melted snow fall steadily through the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, in professional and business services, and in government. Across Marion County, some of the largest workplaces are Marion County Schools, Fairmont State University and Walmart. The drive to work is a fairly typical one, and a modest number of people work from home.
Things to do. The Tygart Valley River runs in or beside town, and Buffalo Creek is close by as well. A short drive away are Prickett's Fort State Park and Valley Falls State Park, both protected areas. Cheat Lake, a reservoir, is a longer drive away.
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- 557households
- 4%below the poverty line
- 25 mintypical commute
- 12%work from home
What people in Marion County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Marion County had 17,374 jobs in 2025, 1.4% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 40° and lows near 24°; warmest in July, with highs near 84° and lows near 64°. About 48 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Fairmont weather station, 4 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Marion County
- Marion County SchoolsSchool district1,114FTE
- Fairmont State UniversityUniversity or college601
- Monongahela Power CompanyDistribution of electric power555
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters405
- Pierpont Community and Technical CollegeTwo-year college155
- UPSCouriers and express delivery services137
- Genesis HealthcareSkilled nursing facilities127
- PepsiCoOther grocery and related products merchant wholesalers102
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 30 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 3,180 people in all across the county; Barrackville has none of its own. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24) 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
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- LightningRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Barrackville’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 Marion County and the Fairmont, WV metro.
Barrackville home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Barrackville$158,647
- 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 Barrackville address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Barrackville — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.