Clear Fork, West Virginia.
Typical home $93,993 (+7.4% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$249 (+102%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $6,482 +7%
- $87,511$93,993 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $6,878 +8%
- $87,116$93,993 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.
- Clear Fork$493
- West Virginia$927
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 46 years.
Typical home values in Clear Fork, WV rose 7.4% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Clear Fork, Wyoming County, West Virginia
The Census does not count Clear Fork on its own, so the figures here are Wyoming County's. Half the county's households earn more than $48,440 a year and half less; 23% of the county's people live below the poverty line. 82% of the county's homes are lived in by their owners and 18% are rented. Unemployment in Wyoming County was 6.4% in August 2026, and the county had 1.0% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Wyoming County work in schools and health care, then farming.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Clear Fork sits in Wyoming County in southern West Virginia, where the population is older than the country as a whole and most people own the homes they live in. Household incomes across the county are lower than the national typical, and more residents live below the poverty line than in most of the country. Homes are generally valued below the national typical, and winters are colder and snowier than in much of the country, while summers are warm and the rainfall is heavy.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, or in farming, forestry and mining, with shops and restaurants, hotels and entertainment also employing people. Jobs across the county have slipped a little over the past year, and unemployment has edged up slightly. Commutes are longer than many in the country, and few people work from home, while fewer adults hold a four-year degree than across the country.
Things to do. The Clear Fork river runs in or beside the town itself, so the water is close at hand for anyone who wants to spend time by it. R. D. Bailey Lake, a lake a short drive away, offers a larger body of water for an easy outing. Horse Creek Wildlife Management Area, a protected area also a short drive away, is set aside for wildlife and suits a quiet walk among the trees.
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- 8,068households
- 45.5median age
- 13%of adults have a degree
- 23%below the poverty line
- 33 mintypical commute
- 2%work from home
What people in Wyoming County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Wyoming County had 4,303 jobs in 2025, 1.0% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 42° and lows near 23°; warmest in July, with highs near 84° and lows near 63°. About 21 inches of snow and 51 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Oceana Southeast weather station, 5 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Wyoming County
- Wyoming County SchoolsSchool district564FTE
- Wvnh EMPNursing care facilities68
- Southern HighlandsOutpatient mental health centers and clinics49
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 2 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 117 people in all. School districts come 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
- Inland floodingRelatively moderate
- AvalanchesRelatively moderate
- Cold wavesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms across Wyoming 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 Wyoming County.
Clear Fork home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Clear Fork$93,993
- 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 Clear Fork address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Clear Fork — 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.