Ceredo, West Virginia.
Typical home $161,225 (+0.9% in a year). Huntington-Ashland, WV-KY-OH metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$398 (+89%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $1,452 +1%
- $159,773$161,225 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $17,975 +13%
- $143,250$161,225 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.
- Ceredo$846
- West Virginia$927
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 29 years.
Typical home values in Ceredo, WV rose 0.9% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Ceredo, Wayne County, West Virginia
Ceredo is a city of 1,408 people in Wayne County. Unemployment in Wayne County was 4.4% in August 2026, and the county had 1.0% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Wayne County work in schools and health care, then shops.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Ceredo is a small river town in Wayne County, West Virginia, close enough to Huntington that daily life often moves between the town and the city. Homes here are modest in price, and household incomes across Wayne County sit below the state's typical level for most of the country. Winters are cold, with some snow, and summers turn warm, with rain and melted snow spread fairly evenly through the year.
Work. Residents of Ceredo most often work in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by shops, then restaurants, hotels and entertainment, with manufacturing close behind. Across Wayne County, the largest workplaces include the Veterans Health Administration, Wayne County Schools and Walmart. Unemployment in the county has eased a little over the past year, though the number of jobs has slipped slightly, and a short commute is the norm, with few people working from home.
Things to do. Camden Park, an amusement park, sits in or beside town, along with the Big Dipper and the Thunderbolt Express, both tourist attractions. A short drive away are the Guyandotte River for time by the water and the Huntington Museum of Art. Those who want a longer outing can drive to the Wayne National Forest, a protected area with trails and woods.
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- 21 mintypical commute
- 5%work from home
What people in Wayne County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Wayne County had 8,412 jobs in 2025, 1.0% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 44° and lows near 25°; warmest in July, with highs near 87° and lows near 66°. About 10 inches of snow and 45 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Huntington Swg Pl weather station, a mile away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Wayne County
- Veterans Health AdministrationFederal government · Department of Veterans Affairs1,388
- Wayne County SchoolsSchool district995FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters166
- Coalfield DevelopmentRehabilitation job counseling and training, vocational139
- Solar HollerInstallation of photovoltaic panels95
- Marathon Petroleum Logistics ServicesMarine cargo handling78
- Zim's Bagging-Main PlantPlastic bag and pouch manufacturing76
- Wvnh EMPNursing care facilities66
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 15 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 973 people in all across the county; Ceredo has one of its own. Federal offices come from OPM's federal workforce data (2026) 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
- Heat wavesRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- Ice stormsRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Ceredo’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 Wayne County and the Huntington-Ashland, WV-KY-OH metro.
Ceredo home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Ceredo$161,225
- 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 Ceredo address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Ceredo — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.