Durbin, West Virginia.
Typical home $133,427 (-2.5% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$351 (+100%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $3,470 -3%
- $136,897$133,427 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $11,581 +10%
- $121,846$133,427 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.
- Durbin$700
- West Virginia$927
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 38 years.
Typical home values in Durbin, WV fell 2.5% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Durbin, Pocahontas County, West Virginia
Durbin is a town of 231 people in Pocahontas County. 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 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Durbin is a very small mountain town in Pocahontas County, and its residents are older than in most places. Winters are cold and snowy, with January the coldest month, while summers stay mild and the year brings a good deal of rain and melted snow. Homes cost less here than in much of the country, and few adults have a four-year degree.
Work. Most residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, with others in shops, the building trades and professional and business services. Across Pocahontas County, some of the largest workplaces are Snowshoe Mountain, Pocahontas County Schools and Pocahontas Memorial Hospital. Unemployment in the county is unchanged from a year ago, and the number of jobs has edged up slightly.
Things to do. The Durbin and Greenbrier Valley Railroad, a museum, sits in or beside town. A short drive away is Monongahela National Forest, a large protected area for hiking and time outdoors. For winter sports, Snowshoe Mountain is a ski area a longer drive away, and Cass Scenic Railroad State Park, also a museum, is a longer drive as well.
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- 9%of adults have a degree
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 35° and lows near 17°; warmest in July, with highs near 77° and lows near 56°. About 67 inches of snow and 44 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Bartow 1S weather station, 3 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; Durbin 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
- Cold wavesRelatively moderate
- Winter weatherRelatively moderate
- Inland floodingRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Durbin’s 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.
Durbin home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Durbin$133,427
- 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 Durbin address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Durbin — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.