Fairview, West Virginia.
Typical home $132,998 (+2.0% in a year). Morgantown, WV metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$349 (+100%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $2,663 +2%
- $130,334$132,998 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $16,345 +14%
- $116,653$132,998 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.
- Fairview$698
- West Virginia$927
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 26 years.
Typical home values in Fairview, WV rose 2.0% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Fairview, Monongalia County, West Virginia
Fairview is a town of 373 people in Monongalia County. Unemployment in Monongalia County was 3.2% in August 2026, and the county had 0.6% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Monongalia 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Fairview is a very small town in Monongalia County, West Virginia, with far fewer people than most places a visitor would think of as a town. Homes here cost less than the typical American home, and the county's household incomes sit above what many nearby West Virginia counties report. Winters are cold, with January the chilliest month, summers are warm, and a good deal of rain and melted snow falls over the year.
Work. Residents work mainly in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, in restaurants, hotels and entertainment, and in professional and business services. Across Monongalia County, the largest workplaces include West Virginia University Hospitals, West Virginia University and Monongalia County Schools. Unemployment across the county is a little lower than it was a year earlier, and the county has added a few jobs over the past year.
Things to do. Prickett's Fort State Park, a protected area, is a short drive away, as are small streams such as Buffalo Creek and Stewart Run. A longer drive brings you to Valley Falls State Park, another protected area, and to Cheat Lake, a reservoir. Football fans can make the longer drive to Mountaineer Field at Milan Puskar Stadium.
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- 12%below the poverty line
What people in Monongalia County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Monongalia County had 59,770 jobs in 2025, 0.6% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 39° and lows near 19°; warmest in July, with highs near 84° and lows near 60°. About 51 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Burton weather station, 9 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Monongalia County
- West Virginia University HospitalsGeneral hospital7,107FTE
- West Virginia UniversityUniversity or college6,540
- Monongalia County SchoolsSchool district1,683FTE
- Monongalia General HospitalGeneral hospital1,282FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters426
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters394
- Mulberry Street Management ServicesHome health care agencies300
- Anderson ExcavatingExcavation contractors252
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 78 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 19,898 people in all across the county; Fairview has none of its own. Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023), colleges from IPEDS (NCES, 2023–24) and school districts 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 floodingRelatively high
- LightningRelatively 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 Fairview’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 Monongalia County and the Morgantown, WV metro.
Fairview home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Fairview$132,998
- 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.
- Fairview5
Zip codes with a Fairview address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Fairview — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.
Zip codes in Fairview
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 26570 | Fairview | 3,350 | — | $129,809 |
| 26590 | Wana | 550 | — | $142,228 |