Evans, West Virginia.
Typical home $225,152 (+5.5% in a year). Point Pleasant, WV-OH metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$631 (+114%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $11,734 +5%
- $213,418$225,152 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $45,269 +25%
- $179,883$225,152 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.
- Evans$1,182
- West Virginia$927
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 15 years.
Typical home values in Evans, WV rose 5.5% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Evans, Mason County, West Virginia
The Census does not count Evans on its own, so the figures here are Mason County's. Half the county's households earn more than $49,761 a year and half less; 19% 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 Mason County was 3.5% in August 2026, and the county had 11.5% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Mason County work in schools and health care, then shops.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Evans is a small town in Mason County, in the western part of West Virginia, where the land is hilly and people tend to know one another. Across Mason County, most homes are lived in by their owners, and the typical resident is middle-aged. Household incomes and the share of people living below the poverty line are both harder going than in many parts of the country, and the typical home is valued well below the national norm. Winters are cold, summers are warm, and it is a wet part of the country, with a fair amount of rain and some snow each year.
Work. Across Mason County, most jobs are in schools, hospitals and social care, shops, manufacturing, and transport, warehouses and utilities. The number of jobs grew sharply over the last year, and unemployment has eased over the same period. Few adults hold a four-year degree compared with the national average, and few residents work from home, so most people travel out each day for work.
Things to do. Parchment Creek, a river a short drive away, is a good place for a quiet afternoon by the water. The Kanawha River is a longer drive away and is one of the best known rivers in the area. Tu-Endie-Wei State Park, a protected area a longer drive away, offers green space for walking and time outdoors.
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- 10,211households
- 44.2median age
- 16%of adults have a degree
- 19%below the poverty line
- 28 mintypical commute
- 4%work from home
What people in Mason County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Mason County had 6,881 jobs in 2025, 11.5% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 44° and lows near 22°; warmest in July, with highs near 88° and lows near 63°. About 12 inches of snow and 46 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Ripley weather station, 6 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Mason County
- Mason County SchoolsSchool district627FTE
- Nucor Steel West VirginiaSteel mills358
- Pleasant Valley HospitalGeneral hospital310FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters238
- American Electric Power170
- APG PolytechPolyethylene terephathalate resins manufacturing161
- Thompson Construction GroupIndustrial building construction132
- Felman ProductionsFerroalloys manufacturing106
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 18 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 2,292 people in all. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24) and hospitals from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023); 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
- Ice stormsRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms across Mason 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 Mason County and the Point Pleasant, WV-OH metro.
Evans home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Evans$225,152
- 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.
- Evans6
Zip codes with a Evans address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Evans — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.