Elizabeth, West Virginia.
Typical home $107,157 (-3.8% in a year). Parkersburg-Vienna, WV metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$268 (+91%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $4,203 -4%
- $111,359$107,157 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $6,429 +6%
- $100,728$107,157 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.
- Elizabeth$562
- West Virginia$927
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 56 years.
Typical home values in Elizabeth, WV fell 3.8% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Elizabeth, Wirt County, West Virginia
Elizabeth is a town of 724 people in Wirt County. Unemployment in Wirt County was 5.3% in August 2026, and the county had 1.6% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Wirt 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Elizabeth is a very small town and the seat of Wirt County, in the hills of western West Virginia. Homes here are modest in price, and household incomes across the county sit below the national level. Few adults in town hold a four-year degree, and very few people work from home.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with shops, manufacturing and the building trades also employing many. Across Wirt County, the largest workplaces are Wirt County Schools and EWV Holdings, which runs skilled nursing facilities. Unemployment in the county is a little lower than a year ago, though the number of local jobs has slipped slightly over the past year.
Things to do. The Beauchamp-Newman House, a museum, stands in or beside town, and Reedy Creek runs through the same stretch. A short drive away, the Hughes River Wildlife Management Area offers protected land to explore, and the Hughes River itself is close by. Winters are cold, with January the chilliest month, and summers are warm, with July the warmest.
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- 12%of adults have a degree
- 4%work from home
What people in Wirt County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Wirt County had 697 jobs in 2025, 1.6% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 41° and lows near 20°; warmest in July, with highs near 86° and lows near 62°.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Creston weather station, 10 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Wirt County
- Wirt County SchoolsSchool district168FTE
- EWV HoldingsSkilled nursing facilities64
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 1 workplace with 20 or more staff, 64 people in all across the county; Elizabeth has one of its own. 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
- Inland floodingVery high
- LandslidesRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively moderate
- Ice stormsRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively 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 Elizabeth’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 Wirt County and the Parkersburg-Vienna, WV metro.
Elizabeth home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Elizabeth$107,157
- 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.
- Elizabeth9
Zip codes with a Elizabeth address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Elizabeth — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.
Zip codes in Elizabeth
| Zip activate to sort by Zip | Place activate to sort by Place | Population sorted descending, activate to sort ascending | Rent activate to sort by Rent | Home value activate to sort by Home value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 26143 | Elizabeth | 3,363 | — | $110,622 |
| 26180 | Walker | 2,106 | — | $147,299 |