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Bloomery, West Virginia.

Typical home $281,637 (+3.6% in a year). Winchester, VA-WV metro.

What it costs per month · Bloomery $1,478/mo

to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$852 (+136%) since Jan 2020.

What the home itself did
1 year
Up $9,827 +4%
$271,810$281,637 since Sep 2025
5 years
Up $73,337 +35%
$208,301$281,637 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.

$500 $1,000 $1,500 $2,000 2002 2006 2010 2014 2018 2022 2026 Bloomery $1,478 West Virginia $927 United States $1,922
$500 $1,000 $1,500 $2,000 2002 2010 2018 2026
  • Bloomery$1,478
  • West Virginia$927
  • United States$1,922

At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 11 years.

Typical home values in Bloomery, WV rose 3.6% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.

Living in Bloomery, Hampshire County, West Virginia

The Census does not count Bloomery on its own, so the figures here are Hampshire County's. Half the county's households earn more than $63,116 a year and half less; 13% of the county's people live below the poverty line. 83% of the county's homes are lived in by their owners and 17% are rented. Unemployment in Hampshire County was 3.7% in August 2026, and the county had 0.1% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Hampshire County work in schools and health care, then manufacturing.

People 23,000 about, in Hampshire County: the Census does not count Bloomery on its own
Household income $63,116 the median in Hampshire County, give or take $7,583
Unemployment 3.7% Hampshire County, August 2026; 4.0% a year before
Homes 83% lived in by their owners; 17% rented

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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Bloomery is a community in Hampshire County, in the hilly Eastern Panhandle of West Virginia. Across the county, most homes are lived in by their owners, and the population is older than in most of the country. Winters are cold and summers are warm, with a good deal of rain and melted snow through the year.

Work. Across Hampshire County, many people work in schools, hospitals and social care, while manufacturing, the building trades and government also employ residents. Unemployment has come down over the past year, and the number of jobs has barely changed. Few people work from home, and many residents drive a fair way to reach their jobs.

Things to do. Edwards Run runs in or beside the town, so it is the easiest place to spend time outdoors. Lake Holiday, a lake a short drive away, offers a quieter place to spend an afternoon. For a longer outing, the Literary Hall museum is a longer drive away.

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  • 8,643households
  • 48.5median age
  • 18%of adults have a degree
  • 13%below the poverty line
  • 42 mintypical commute
  • 9%work from home

What people in Hampshire County work in

  • Schools, hospitals and social care30%
  • Manufacturing14%
  • Building trades13%
  • Government7%
  • Shops (retail)7%
  • Restaurants, hotels and entertainment7%

Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Hampshire County had 4,248 jobs in 2025, 0.1% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).

Weather through the year

Average daily high and low for each month: coldest in January, 40° and 21°; warmest in July, 85° and 62° 20° 40° 60° 80° J 40° 21° F M A M J J 85° 62° A S O N D
Average daily high and low for each month: coldest in January, 40° and 21°; warmest in July, 85° and 62° 20° 40° 60° 80° J 40° 21° F M A M J J 85° 62° A S O N D

Coldest in January, with highs near 40° and lows near 21°; warmest in July, with highs near 85° and lows near 62°. About 43 inches of rain and melted snow a year.

Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Cacapon St. Pk #2 weather station, 12 miles away (NOAA).

Largest workplaces in Hampshire County

  1. Hampshire County SchoolsSchool district432FTE
  2. Hampshire Memorial HospitalCritical access hospital115FTE
  3. Food LionGrocery stores95
  4. Genesis HealthcareHomes for the elderly with nursing care56
  5. Valley Regional EnterpriseHome health care agencies44
  6. Northern EagleAlcoholic beverages, wine and distilled spirits merchant wholesalers40

Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 5 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 401 people in all. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24) and hospitals from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023); 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

  1. LandslidesRelatively moderate

FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms across Hampshire 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 Hampshire County and the Winchester, VA-WV metro.

Bloomery home values

Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.

$100,000 $200,000 $300,000 2018 2020 2022 2024 2026 Bloomery $281,637 West Virginia $176,576 United States $366,157
$100,000 $200,000 $300,000 2018 2022 2026
  • Bloomery$281,637
  • 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.

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Zip codes with a Bloomery address

A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Bloomery — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.

Zip codes in Bloomery