Burlington, West Virginia.
Typical home $210,780 (+3.7% in a year). Cumberland, MD-WV metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$618 (+126%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $7,618 +4%
- $203,163$210,780 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $39,457 +23%
- $171,323$210,780 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.
- Burlington$1,106
- West Virginia$927
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 17 years.
Typical home values in Burlington, WV rose 3.7% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Burlington, Mineral County, West Virginia
Burlington, in Mineral County, had 131 people in the 2020 census. Unemployment in Mineral County was 4.0% in August 2026, and the county had 0.9% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Mineral 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Burlington is a very small community in Mineral County, West Virginia, with far fewer residents than most towns. Homes here cost less than across much of the country, and Mineral County's household incomes sit a little below what is typical nationally. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month, and summers turn warm in July. Snow falls through the winter, and the year brings a fair amount of rain and melted snow as well.
Work. Residents mostly work in schools, hospitals and social care, in manufacturing, in shops and in government. Across Mineral County, the largest workplaces include Northrop Grumman, which makes propulsion units for missiles and space vehicles, along with Mineral County Schools and Potomac Valley Hospital. The county had slightly fewer jobs last year than the year before, and unemployment there has eased a little over the past year.
Things to do. Literary Hall, a museum, is a short drive away, as is Fort Mill Ridge Wildlife Management Area, a protected area for walking and watching wildlife. For time on the water, Deep Creek Lake is a reservoir a longer drive away, a good choice for a day trip.
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What people in Mineral County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Mineral County had 8,616 jobs in 2025, 0.9% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 40° and lows near 21°; warmest in July, with highs near 89° and lows near 61°. About 34 inches of snow and 41 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Keyser Ssw weather station, 7 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Mineral County
- Northrop GrummanPropulsion units and parts, guided missile and space vehicle, manufacturing1,820
- Northrop Grumman SystemsGuided missile and space vehicle propulsion unit and propulsion unit parts manufacturing1,630
- Mineral County SchoolsSchool district643FTE
- Potomac Valley HospitalCritical access hospital300FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters289
- Automated Packaging Systems LLC of Sealed AirPolyethylene resins manufacturing200
- Choice Care At Home - KeyserHome care of elderly, non-medical160
- Potomac State College of West Virginia UniversityUniversity or college151
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 12 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 4,901 people in all across the county; Burlington 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 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 floodingRelatively high
- LandslidesRelatively moderate
- DroughtRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively moderate
- Winter weatherRelatively moderate
- HailRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Burlington’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively moderate. 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 Mineral County and the Cumberland, MD-WV metro.
Burlington home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Burlington$210,780
- 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 Burlington address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Burlington — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.