Belle, West Virginia.
Typical home $114,889 (+0.0% in a year). Charleston, WV metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$321 (+114%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $43 +0%
- $114,846$114,889 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $25,586 +29%
- $89,303$114,889 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.
- Belle$603
- West Virginia$927
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 14 years.
Typical home values in Belle, WV rose 0.0% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Belle, Kanawha County, West Virginia
Belle is a town of 1,169 people in Kanawha County. Half its households earn more than $77,031 a year and half less, against $60,943 across Kanawha County; 3% of its people live below the poverty line. 76% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 24% are rented. Unemployment in Kanawha County was 4.0% in August 2026, and the county had 1.9% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in schools and health care, then finance and property.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Belle is a small town in Kanawha County, in the river valley country of West Virginia. Most homes are lived in by their owners, and household incomes run well above the county's, with few households living below the poverty line. Winters are cold and summers warm, with a good amount of rain and melted snow across the year.
Work. Residents work mainly in schools, hospitals and social care, with banks, insurance and property, professional and business services, and shops also employing many. Across Kanawha County, the largest workplaces include Charleston Area Medical Center, Kanawha County Schools and Thomas Memorial Hospital. The typical commute is fairly short, and some residents work from home.
Things to do. Kanawha State Forest, a protected area, is a short drive away and gives room for walking and time outdoors. Also a short drive away are the West Virginia State Museum and the University of Charleston Stadium at Laidley Field. Creeks run in or beside town, including Witcher Creek and Lens Creek.
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- 18%of adults have a degree
- 3%below the poverty line
- 18 mintypical commute
- 12%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Kanawha County had 95,946 jobs in 2025, 1.9% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 43° and lows near 26°; warmest in July, with highs near 85° and lows near 66°. About 46 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the London Locks weather station, 10 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Kanawha County
- Charleston Area Medical CenterGeneral hospital6,949FTE
- CAMC Memorial DivisionGeneral medical and surgical hospitals3,890
- Kanawha County SchoolsSchool district3,592FTE
- Thomas Memorial HospitalGeneral hospital760FTE
- GestampJob stampings, automotive, metal, manufacturing650
- Niterra North AmericaCoils, ignition, internal combustion engines, manufacturing525
- Charleston WV PDCMail and parcel delivery483
- University of CharlestonUniversity or college436
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 157 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 23,318 people in all across the county; Belle has two of its own. Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023), school districts 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 floodingVery high
- LightningRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively moderate
- Heat wavesRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively moderate
- HailRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Belle’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively high. 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 Kanawha County and the Charleston, WV metro.
Belle home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Belle$114,889
- 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.
- Belle7
Zip codes with a Belle address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Belle — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.