Bethany, West Virginia.
Typical home $176,067 (+4.1% in a year). Weirton-Steubenville, WV-OH metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$491 (+113%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $6,984 +4%
- $169,083$176,067 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $32,233 +22%
- $143,835$176,067 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.
- Bethany$924
- West Virginia$927
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 17 years.
Typical home values in Bethany, WV rose 4.1% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Bethany, Brooke County, West Virginia
Bethany is a town of 781 people in Brooke County. Unemployment in Brooke County was 4.6% in August 2026, and the county had 5.4% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Brooke 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Bethany is a very small town in Brooke County, West Virginia, and its residents are far younger than in most American towns, which fits a place built around a college. Homes are modestly priced, and the share of people living below the poverty line is lower than you might expect for a town this size. Winters are cold and summers are warm, with rain and melted snow spread through the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with shops, restaurants and hotels, and manufacturing also employing many. Very few work from home. Across Brooke County, some of the largest workplaces are Weirton Medical Center, Brooke County Schools and Bethany College, and the county has more jobs than it did the year before.
Things to do. Meadowcroft Rockshelter, a museum, is a short drive away, and Oglebay Park, a garden, is also a short drive off. Castleman Run runs in or beside town, and Castleman Run Lake Wildlife Management Area, a protected area, is a short drive away for walks and time outdoors.
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- 8%below the poverty line
- 2%work from home
What people in Brooke County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Brooke County had 7,440 jobs in 2025, 5.4% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 37° and lows near 22°; warmest in July, with highs near 83° and lows near 63°. About 38 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Wheeling Ohio County Airport weather station, 5 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Brooke County
- Weirton Medical CenterGeneral hospital879FTE
- Brooke County SchoolsSchool district401FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters307
- Eagle ManufacturingIndustrial containers merchant wholesalers204
- Wheeling-Nippon SteelAluminum coating of metal products for the trade192
- Bethany CollegeUniversity or college191
- SSH WeirtonLong-term care hospital148FTE
- Kroger Columbus KMASupermarkets and other grocery except convenience stores123
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 28 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 2,887 people in all across the county; Bethany 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 floodingRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Bethany’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 Brooke County and the Weirton-Steubenville, WV-OH metro.
Bethany home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Bethany$176,067
- 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.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a Bethany address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Bethany — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.