Bickmore, West Virginia.
Typical home $116,401 (-2.6% in a year). Charleston, WV metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$334 (+121%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $3,069 -3%
- $119,470$116,401 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $17,876 +18%
- $98,526$116,401 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.
- Bickmore$611
- West Virginia$927
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 21 years.
Typical home values in Bickmore, WV fell 2.6% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Bickmore, Clay County, West Virginia
The Census does not count Bickmore on its own, so the figures here are Clay County's. 76% of the county's homes are lived in by their owners and 24% are rented. Unemployment in Clay County was 6.0% in August 2026, and the county had 7.1% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Clay County work in schools and health care, then construction.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Bickmore is a small town in Clay County, in the hills of central West Virginia, where the population is older on the whole than across the country. Most homes are lived in by their owners rather than rented, and a larger share of residents live below the poverty line than in most parts of the country. Winters here are colder than in most of the country, summers are warm, and rain and melted snow fall heavily through the year.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, in the building trades, in government, or in shops. Fewer adults hold a four-year degree than across the country, and few people work from home. Commutes tend to be long, and the county has seen fewer jobs in recent times, so work can be harder to find than it once was.
Things to do. The New River Gorge National Park and Preserve, a protected area, lies a longer drive away and offers wide gorges and river views. Summersville Lake, a reservoir, is also a longer drive off, and Libertybowl Branch, a river, is a short drive from town for a quieter outing.
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- 2,972households
- 45.4median age
- 11%of adults have a degree
- 26%below the poverty line
- 45 mintypical commute
- 7%work from home
What people in Clay County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Clay County had 1,572 jobs in 2025, 7.1% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 40° and lows near 21°; warmest in July, with highs near 81° and lows near 61°. About 50 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Summersville Lake weather station, 15 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Clay County
- Clay County SchoolsSchool district247FTE
- Wvnh EMPNursing care facilities79
- C S MasonryCement block laying35
- Pierson Lumber CompanyBoards, wood, made from logs or bolts24
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 3 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 138 people in all. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (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
- LandslidesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms across Clay County, 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 Clay County and the Charleston, WV metro.
Bickmore home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Bickmore$116,401
- 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 Bickmore address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Bickmore — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.