Camden, West Virginia.
Typical home $143,824 (+0.2% in a year). Clarksburg, WV metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$376 (+99%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $261 +0%
- $143,563$143,824 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $16,695 +13%
- $127,129$143,824 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.
- Camden$755
- West Virginia$927
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 28 years.
Typical home values in Camden, WV rose 0.2% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Camden, Lewis County, West Virginia
The Census does not count Camden on its own, so the figures here are Lewis County's. Half the county's households earn more than $56,477 a year and half less; 16% of the county's people live below the poverty line. 72% of the county's homes are lived in by their owners and 28% are rented. Unemployment in Lewis County was 4.6% in August 2026, and the county had 0.3% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Lewis County work in schools and health care, then shops.
Written by AI Claude Haiku 5.5 wrote this on 22 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Camden is a town in Lewis County, in north-central West Virginia. Most homes across the county are lived in by their owners rather than rented. Winters are cold, with the coldest weather in January, and summers are warm, peaking in July.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, in restaurants, hotels and entertainment, or for the government. Jobs in the county have eased slightly over the past year, and unemployment is higher than it was a year earlier. Working from home is uncommon here, so most people travel to a workplace each day.
Things to do. Jackson's Mill, a museum, is a short drive away and is one of the area's best known places to visit. Smoke Camp Wildlife Management Area, a protected area, is also a short drive away. Stonewall Jackson Lake State Park, another protected area, is a longer drive away.
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- 6,967households
- 43.0median age
- 19%of adults have a degree
- 16%below the poverty line
- 28 mintypical commute
- 6%work from home
What people in Lewis County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Lewis County had 5,726 jobs in 2025, 0.3% fewer 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 85° and lows near 63°.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Weston weather station, 8 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Lewis County
- William R Sharpe JR HospitalPsychiatric hospital383FTE
- Lewis County SchoolsSchool district358FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters312
- Stonewall Jackson Memorial HospitalGeneral hospital282FTE
- Stonewall ResortResort hotels without casinos250
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters221
- Latham Pool ProductsFiberglass pool manufacturing141
- Hope Gas-Jane Lew Operational HubDistribution of natural gas87
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 10 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,607 people in all. Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023) and school districts 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
- LandslidesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms across Lewis County, 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 Lewis County and the Clarksburg, WV metro.
Camden home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Camden$143,824
- 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 Camden address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Camden — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.