Berwind, West Virginia.
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to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$488 (+111%) since Jan 2020.
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.
- West Virginia$927
- United States$1,922
Living in Berwind, McDowell County, West Virginia
Berwind, in McDowell County, had 188 people in the 2020 census. Unemployment in McDowell County was 10.6% in August 2026, and the county had 5.0% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in McDowell County work in schools and health care, then government.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Berwind is a very small community in McDowell County, in the coalfield hills of southern West Virginia. Winters are cold, with real snow, and summers are warm, with plenty of rain and melted snow across the year. Household incomes across McDowell County run well below what they are in most of the country.
Work. Residents of Berwind work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, in government, and in farming, forestry and mining, with some in transport, warehouses and utilities. Across McDowell County, the largest workplaces include McDowell County Schools, Welch Community Hospital and the federal prison system. Unemployment across the county is high, though a little lower than a year ago, and the county has fewer jobs than it did the year before.
Things to do. Berwind Lake Wildlife Management Area, a protected area, lies in or beside town, and so does Vall Creek, a river. War Creek, another river, is a short drive away. Those willing to go farther can reach Hungry Mother State Park, a protected area a longer drive away.
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What people in McDowell County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. McDowell County had 3,739 jobs in 2025, 5.0% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 44° and lows near 23°; warmest in July, with highs near 83° and lows near 62°. About 18 inches of snow and 45 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Richlands weather station, 14 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in McDowell County
- Mcdowell County SchoolsSchool district383FTE
- Welch Community HospitalGeneral hospital148FTE
- Bureau of Prisons/federal Prison SystemFederal government · Department of Justice134
- Wvnh EMPNursing care facilities83
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 1 workplace with 20 or more staff, 83 people in all across the county; Berwind 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
- Cold wavesVery high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- LandslidesRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Berwind’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively moderate. 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 McDowell County.
Berwind home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Market heat, inside the city limits
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
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Zip codes with a Berwind address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Berwind — 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.