Brenton, West Virginia.
Typical home $64,954 (-1.5% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$174 (+104%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $979 -1%
- $65,933$64,954 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $378 +1%
- $64,576$64,954 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.
- Brenton$341
- West Virginia$927
- United States$1,922
Typical home values in Brenton, WV fell 1.5% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Brenton, Wyoming County, West Virginia
Brenton, in Wyoming County, had 194 people in the 2020 census. Unemployment in Wyoming County was 6.4% in August 2026, and the county had 1.0% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Wyoming County work in schools and health care, then farming.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Brenton is a very small community in Wyoming County, West Virginia, with far fewer people than most towns. Homes here are modestly priced, and household incomes across the county run below the typical American household's. The winters are cold, with January days that stay close to freezing at best, and summers turn warm in July. Snow falls through the winter, and the year is a wet one overall.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with others in farming, forestry and mining, in shops, and in restaurants, hotels and entertainment. Across Wyoming County, the largest workplaces include Wyoming County Schools, a nursing care facility and Southern Highlands, a mental health clinic. Unemployment across the county has stayed close to where it stood a year ago, and the county has slightly fewer jobs than it did the year before.
Things to do. Indian Creek runs in or beside town, and Clear Fork, Rockcastle Creek and Pinnacle Creek are all a short drive away for anyone who likes to be near moving water. Twin Falls Resort State Park, a protected area, is also a short drive away. For a longer outing, R. D. Bailey Lake is a longer drive off.
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What people in Wyoming County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Wyoming County had 4,303 jobs in 2025, 1.0% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 42° and lows near 23°; warmest in July, with highs near 84° and lows near 63°. About 21 inches of snow and 51 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Oceana Southeast weather station, 5 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Wyoming County
- Wyoming County SchoolsSchool district564FTE
- Wvnh EMPNursing care facilities68
- Southern HighlandsOutpatient mental health centers and clinics49
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 2 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 117 people in all across the county; Brenton has none of its own. 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
- Inland floodingVery high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- LandslidesRelatively moderate
- WildfireRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively moderate
- Winter weatherRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Brenton’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 Wyoming County.
Brenton home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Brenton$64,954
- 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 Brenton address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Brenton — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.