Cass, West Virginia.
Typical home $129,301 (+7.4% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$406 (+149%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $8,930 +7%
- $120,371$129,301 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $44,489 +52%
- $84,812$129,301 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.
- Cass$679
- West Virginia$927
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 8 years.
Typical home values in Cass, WV rose 7.4% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Cass, Pocahontas County, West Virginia
Cass, in Pocahontas County, had 38 people in the 2020 census. Unemployment in Pocahontas County was 4.2% in August 2026, and the county had 0.8% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Pocahontas 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Cass is a small community in the mountains of Pocahontas County, in eastern West Virginia. Its hills, forests and rivers shape daily life, and it has the quiet feel of a place where people know one another. Winters are cold and snowy, summers are warm, and rain falls often through the year.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, or in shops. Others work in the building trades or in professional and business services. Jobs in the county grew slightly last year, and unemployment has stayed about the same.
Things to do. Cass Scenic Railroad State Park, a museum in or beside town, keeps the area's logging history alive. Snowshoe Mountain, a ski area a short drive away, is busy in winter. The Monongahela National Forest, a protected area a longer drive away, offers wide woods for walking and quiet time outdoors.
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What people in Pocahontas County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Pocahontas County had 2,999 jobs in 2025, 0.8% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 30° and lows near 14°; warmest in July, with highs near 70° and lows near 55°. About 145 inches of snow and 63 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Snowshoe weather station, 4 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Pocahontas County
- Snowshoe MountainConcession operators, amusement device and ride1,763
- Pocahontas County SchoolsSchool district193FTE
- Pocahontas Memorial HospitalCritical access hospital128FTE
- Genesis Health CareNursing homes50
- Burns Motor FreightTrucking, general freight, long-distance, truckload46
- Judy FencecraftFencing, prefabricated sections, wood, manufacturing29
- Forest ServiceFederal government · Department of Agriculture24
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 4 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,888 people in all across the county; Cass 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 federal offices from OPM's federal workforce data (2026); 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
- LightningRelatively high
- LandslidesRelatively moderate
- Inland floodingrelatively high in parts of CassRelatively moderate
- Cold wavesrelatively high in parts of CassRelatively 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 Cass’ census tracts, 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 Pocahontas County.
Cass home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Cass$129,301
- 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.
- Cass7
Zip codes with a Cass address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Cass — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.