Bartow, West Virginia.
Typical home $102,816 (-3.0% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$239 (+79%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $3,149 -3%
- $105,964$102,816 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Down $10,421 -9%
- $113,237$102,816 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.
- Bartow$540
- West Virginia$927
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, prices here aren't rising.
Typical home values in Bartow, WV fell 3.0% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Bartow, Pocahontas County, West Virginia
Bartow, in Pocahontas County, had 64 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 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Bartow is a very small community in Pocahontas County, in the mountains of eastern West Virginia. Winters here are colder than in most of the country and bring heavy snow, while summers are mild. Rain and melted snow fall steadily through the year, so the landscape stays green and the rivers stay full.
Work. Most working residents of Bartow are employed in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, in the building trades, or in professional and business services. Across Pocahontas County, the number of jobs grew slightly last year, and unemployment is about where it was a year earlier.
Things to do. The Monongahela National Forest, a protected area a short drive away, offers wide woods for walking and quiet days outdoors. The Durbin and Greenbrier Valley Railroad, a museum in or beside town, is a good place to learn about the region's railway past. Snowshoe Mountain, a ski area a longer drive away, suits those who enjoy the snowy winters.
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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, a mile 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; Bartow 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
- Inland floodingRelatively moderate
- Winter weatherRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Bartow’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.
Bartow home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Bartow$102,816
- 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 Bartow address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Bartow — 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.