Bethlehem, West Virginia.
Typical home $220,325 (+4.4% in a year). Wheeling, WV-OH metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$565 (+96%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $9,253 +4%
- $211,072$220,325 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $37,998 +21%
- $182,327$220,325 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.
- Bethlehem$1,156
- West Virginia$927
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 18 years.
Typical home values in Bethlehem, WV rose 4.4% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Bethlehem, Ohio County, West Virginia
Bethlehem is a village of 2,605 people in Ohio County. Half its households earn more than $83,409 a year and half less, against $57,094 across Ohio County; 9% of its people live below the poverty line. 88% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 12% are rented. Unemployment in Ohio County was 4.2% in August 2026, and the county had 0.2% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in schools and health care, then professional services.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Bethlehem is a small village in Ohio County, West Virginia, where nearly everyone owns the home they live in. Household incomes run well above the county's, and fewer people live below the poverty line than you might expect. A good share of adults hold a four-year degree, and the population sits somewhat older than younger. Winters are cold and summers warm, with rain and melted snow spread through the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, in professional and business services, in restaurants, hotels and entertainment, and in banks, insurance and property. Across Ohio County, the largest workplaces include Wheeling Hospital, Ohio County Schools and West Liberty University. The typical commute is short, and some people work from home. Jobs across the county slipped slightly last year, and unemployment is close to where it stood a year ago.
Things to do. In or beside town, West Virginia Independence Hall is a museum, and Wheeling Park offers green space for a walk. A short drive away, Oglebay Park is a garden, and Grave Creek Mound is an archaeological site. A longer drive takes you to Meadowcroft Rockshelter, a museum.
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- 1,088households
- 45%of adults have a degree
- 9%below the poverty line
- 19 mintypical commute
- 10%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Ohio County had 27,052 jobs in 2025, 0.2% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 39° and lows near 22°; warmest in July, with highs near 85° and lows near 64°. About 42 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Wheeling weather station, 3 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Ohio County
- Wheeling HospitalGeneral hospital2,338FTE
- Ohio County SchoolsSchool district757FTE
- Cabela's Distribution Center 915 - WheelingGeneral warehousing and storage518
- West Liberty UniversityUniversity or college443
- Delaware North CompaniesOther gambling industries383
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters288
- Environment Control Ohio ValleyJanitorial services263
- ZiegenfelderJuice pops, frozen, manufacturing256
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 42 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 7,921 people in all across the county; Bethlehem has none 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
- LightningRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Bethlehem’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, very 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 Ohio County and the Wheeling, WV-OH metro.
Bethlehem home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Bethlehem$220,325
- 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.
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Zip codes with a Bethlehem address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Bethlehem — 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.