Carpendale, West Virginia.
Typical home $186,066 (+5.6% in a year). Cumberland, MD-WV metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$557 (+133%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $9,839 +6%
- $176,227$186,066 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $47,247 +34%
- $138,819$186,066 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.
- Carpendale$977
- West Virginia$927
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 12 years.
Typical home values in Carpendale, WV rose 5.6% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Carpendale, Mineral County, West Virginia
Carpendale is a town of 860 people in Mineral County. Half its households earn more than $66,027 a year and half less, against $69,375 across Mineral County; 11% of its people live below the poverty line. 86% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 14% are rented. 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Carpendale is a very small town in Mineral County, West Virginia, and nearly everyone who lives there owns their home. Incomes run a little below the county's, and typical home values are modest. Winters are cold with a fair amount of snow, and summers turn warm but not extreme.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, shops and government also employing many. Across Mineral County, the largest workplaces include Northrop Grumman, Mineral County Schools and Potomac Valley Hospital. The county has lost a small share of its jobs over the past year, though unemployment there is lower than it was a year earlier. A typical commute is a short drive.
Things to do. Fort Cumberland and Canal Place, a museum, are in or beside town, and Constitution Park is close by for a walk. A short drive away are Wills Mountain State Park, a protected area, and Tristate Zoological Park. The Savage River is a longer drive for those who want to get out on the water.
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- 421households
- 10%of adults have a degree
- 11%below the poverty line
- 22 mintypical commute
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 39° and lows near 22°; warmest in July, with highs near 87° and lows near 64°. About 29 inches of snow and 39 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Cumberland weather station, 2 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; Carpendale 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
- Strong windRelatively 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 Carpendale’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.
Carpendale home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Carpendale$186,066
- 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 Carpendale address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Carpendale — 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.