Bradshaw, West Virginia.
Typical home $39,699 (-14.0% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$40 (+24%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $6,468 -14%
- $46,167$39,699 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Down $24,126 -38%
- $63,825$39,699 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.
- Bradshaw$208
- West Virginia$927
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, prices here aren't rising.
Typical home values in Bradshaw, WV fell 14.0% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Bradshaw, McDowell County, West Virginia
Bradshaw is a town of 207 people in McDowell County. Unemployment in McDowell County was 10.6% in August 2026, and the county had 5.0% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in McDowell County work in schools and health care, then government.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Bradshaw is a very small town in McDowell County, in the southern coalfields of West Virginia. Homes here are inexpensive compared with most of the country, and household incomes across the county sit well below what is typical nationally. Winters are cold and snowy, summers are warm, and rain and melted snow fall steadily through the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, in government, in farming, forestry and mining, and in transport, warehouses and utilities. Across McDowell County, the largest workplaces include McDowell County Schools, Welch Community Hospital and the federal prison system. Unemployment across the county is high, though a little lower than it was a year earlier, and there were fewer jobs in the county last year than the year before.
Things to do. Outdoor places are close by. Berwind Lake Wildlife Management Area, a protected area, is a short drive away, as is the Desolate Branch river. Breaks Interstate Park, a larger protected area, is a longer drive away.
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What people in McDowell County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. McDowell County had 3,739 jobs in 2025, 5.0% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 43° and lows near 24°; warmest in July, with highs near 83° and lows near 63°. About 16 inches of snow and 47 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Grundy weather station, 17 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in McDowell County
- Mcdowell County SchoolsSchool district383FTE
- Welch Community HospitalGeneral hospital148FTE
- Bureau of Prisons/federal Prison SystemFederal government · Department of Justice134
- Wvnh EMPNursing care facilities83
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 1 workplace with 20 or more staff, 83 people in all across the county; Bradshaw has none of its own. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24), hospitals from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023) and federal offices from OPM's federal workforce data (2026); 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
- Cold wavesVery high
- Strong windVery high
- Inland floodingVery high
- LandslidesRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- WildfireRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Bradshaw’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, very high. 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 McDowell County.
Bradshaw home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Bradshaw$39,699
- 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 Bradshaw address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Bradshaw — 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.