Elkview, West Virginia.
Typical home $183,412 (+1.9% in a year). Charleston, WV metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$523 (+119%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $3,414 +2%
- $179,998$183,412 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $44,243 +32%
- $139,170$183,412 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.
- Elkview$963
- West Virginia$927
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 13 years.
Typical home values in Elkview, WV rose 1.9% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Elkview, Kanawha County, West Virginia
Elkview, in Kanawha County, had 1,116 people in the 2020 census. Half its households earn more than $69,858 a year and half less, against $60,943 across Kanawha County; 6% of its people live below the poverty line. Unemployment in Kanawha County was 4.0% in August 2026, and the county had 1.9% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Kanawha 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Elkview is a small community in Kanawha County, West Virginia, with a population that is small enough for neighbors to know one another. Household incomes here run above the county's, and fewer people live below the poverty line than you might expect for the area. A typical home is valued at a modest sum compared with much of the country. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month, and summers are warm, with July the warmest. The year brings a fair amount of snow and a good deal of rain.
Work. People in Elkview work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by shops, professional and business services, and government. Across Kanawha County, some of the largest workplaces are Charleston Area Medical Center, Kanawha County Schools and Thomas Memorial Hospital. Unemployment across the county is a little lower than a year ago, though the county has fewer jobs than it did the year before.
Things to do. Water is close at hand: Blue Creek and Pinch Creek run in or beside town, and Whiteman Fork is a short drive away. For a game, Schoenbaum Stadium is a short drive away, as is the University of Charleston Stadium at Laidley Field. Kanawha State Forest, a protected area, is a longer drive, and worth it for time outdoors.
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- 6%below the poverty line
What people in Kanawha County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Kanawha County had 95,946 jobs in 2025, 1.9% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 44° and lows near 26°; warmest in July, with highs near 86° and lows near 66°. About 32 inches of snow and 46 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Charleston Yeager Airport weather station, 7 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Kanawha County
- Charleston Area Medical CenterGeneral hospital6,949FTE
- CAMC Memorial DivisionGeneral medical and surgical hospitals3,890
- Kanawha County SchoolsSchool district3,592FTE
- Thomas Memorial HospitalGeneral hospital760FTE
- GestampJob stampings, automotive, metal, manufacturing650
- Niterra North AmericaCoils, ignition, internal combustion engines, manufacturing525
- Charleston WV PDCMail and parcel delivery483
- University of CharlestonUniversity or college436
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 157 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 23,318 people in all across the county; Elkview has none of its own. Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023), school districts from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24) and colleges from IPEDS (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
- LightningRelatively high
- LandslidesRelatively moderate
- Heat wavesRelatively moderate
- Winter weatherRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Elkview’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively high. 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 Kanawha County and the Charleston, WV metro.
Elkview home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Elkview$183,412
- West Virginia$176,576
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 5 Elkview listings — the market is roughly in balance.
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
Share of listings with a price cut
The early-warning dial: sellers cut when buyers stop reaching. Rising cuts cool a market months before prices notice.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Elkview20
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Elkview6
Zip codes with a Elkview address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Elkview — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.