Brandywine, West Virginia.
Typical home $208,673 (+7.8% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$668 (+156%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $15,120 +8%
- $193,553$208,673 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $60,360 +41%
- $148,314$208,673 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.
- Brandywine$1,095
- West Virginia$927
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 10 years.
Typical home values in Brandywine, WV rose 7.8% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Brandywine, Pendleton County, West Virginia
Brandywine, in Pendleton County, had 178 people in the 2020 census. Unemployment in Pendleton County was 2.8% in August 2026, and the county had 0.6% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Pendleton County work in schools and health care, then manufacturing.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Brandywine is a very small community in Pendleton County, West Virginia, where everyone is likely to know one another by sight. Homes here are valued below what is typical across much of the country, and household incomes across Pendleton County sit somewhat below the national picture. Winters are cold and snowy, summers are warm, and precipitation is fairly steady through the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, the building trades, and farming, forestry and mining also part of daily life. Across Pendleton County, the largest workplaces include Pendleton County Schools and Future Generations University. Unemployment across the county is low and has eased slightly over the past year, and the number of jobs has grown a little.
Things to do. A short drive away are Thorn Creek Wildlife Management Area, a protected area for walking and watching wildlife, and Fort Seybert, a historic fort. Farther afield, by a longer drive, are the George Washington and Jefferson National Forests, a large protected area with plenty of room to roam. Smoke Hole Caverns, a tourist attraction, is also a longer drive away.
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What people in Pendleton County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Pendleton County had 1,505 jobs in 2025, 0.6% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 43° and lows near 22°; warmest in July, with highs near 84° and lows near 59°. About 27 inches of snow and 38 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Franklin Northeast weather station, 5 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Pendleton County
- Pendleton County SchoolsSchool district181FTE
- Future Generations UniversityUniversity or college28
School districts come 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
- Inland floodingVery high
- Strong windRelatively high
- LandslidesRelatively moderate
- DroughtRelatively moderate
- Winter weatherRelatively moderate
- Cold wavesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Brandywine’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively 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 Pendleton County.
Brandywine home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Brandywine$208,673
- 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.
- Brandywine6
Zip codes with a Brandywine address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Brandywine — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.