Bluefield, West Virginia.
Typical home $113,136 (-2.6% in a year), asking rent $786 . Bluefield, WV-VA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$352 (+146%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $3,011 -3%
- $116,146$113,136 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $29,303 +35%
- $83,832$113,136 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.
- Bluefield$594
- West Virginia$927
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 12 years.
Typical home values in Bluefield, WV fell 2.6% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Bluefield, Mercer County, West Virginia
Bluefield is a city of 9,658 people in Mercer County. 65% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 35% are rented. Unemployment in Mercer County was 4.3% in August 2026, and the county had 1.0% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Bluefield is a small city in Mercer County, West Virginia, with a population older than much of the country. Most homes are lived in by their owners, and typical home values and rents sit at a modest level. Incomes run below the county's, and more people live below the poverty line than across the country as a whole. Winters are cold and snowy, while summer stays comfortably warm, and precipitation is steady through the year.
Work. Most residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by shops, restaurants and hotels, and banks, insurance and property. Among the largest workplaces in Bluefield are PCH Bluefield Campus, Bluestone Health and Rehabilitation, and Swope Construction Co. Many people have a short drive to work, and some work from home.
Things to do. Pinnacle Rock State Park, a protected area, is a short drive away, as are streams such as Brush Creek and Crane Creek. For a longer outing, Lake Shawnee Amusement Park is a longer drive away, as is the Bluestone National Scenic River, a protected stretch of river. The East River Soccer Complex, a stadium, is also a short drive away.
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- 4,027households
- 31%of adults have a degree
- 18%below the poverty line
- 24 mintypical commute
- 10%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Mercer County had 19,507 jobs in 2025, 1.0% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 40° and lows near 22°; warmest in July, with highs near 81° and lows near 60°. About 40 inches of snow and 45 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Bluefield weather station, a mile away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Bluefield
- Behavioral Health Center - Princeton Community HospitalMental hospitals127
- PCH Bluefield CampusHospitals, general pediatric108
- Bluestone Health and RehabilitationSkilled nursing facilities75
- Swope Construction CoCommercial building construction general contractors64
- BluefieldMail and parcel delivery51
- Goodwill Industries of Kanawha Valley453310 used merchandise stores49
- AramarkFood service contractors34
- BelkDepartment stores except discount department stores30
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 10 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 583 people in all. 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 wavesRelatively high
- Winter weatherrelatively high in parts of BluefieldRelatively moderate
- Lightningrelatively high in parts of BluefieldRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively moderate
- Inland floodingRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Bluefield’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 Mercer County and the Bluefield, WV-VA metro.
Bluefield home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Bluefield$113,136
- West Virginia$176,576
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 4 Bluefield listings — the market is cooling.
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
Share of listings with a price cut
The early-warning dial: sellers cut when buyers stop reaching. Rising cuts cool a market months before prices notice.
- Bluefield22.56%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Bluefield67
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Bluefield18
Zip codes with a Bluefield address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Bluefield — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.