Forest Hill, West Virginia.
Typical home $200,472 (+3.2% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$192 (+22%) since Jan 2024.
- 1 year
- Up $6,150 +3%
- $194,322$200,472 since Sep 2025
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.
- Forest Hill$1,052
- West Virginia$927
- United States$1,922
Typical home values in Forest Hill, WV rose 3.2% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Forest Hill, Summers County, West Virginia
The Census does not count Forest Hill on its own, so the figures here are Summers County's. Half the county's households earn more than $40,699 a year and half less; 24% of the county's people live below the poverty line. 81% of the county's homes are lived in by their owners and 19% are rented. Unemployment in Summers County was 4.5% in August 2026, and the county had 1.8% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Summers County work in schools and health care, then government.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Forest Hill lies in Summers County, in the hills of southern West Virginia, where the Appalachian landscape shapes daily life. Winters are cold and snow falls most years, summers are warm, and a good deal of rain comes through the year. Across the county, most homes are lived in by their owners, home prices are generally lower than in much of the country, and the population is an older one.
Work. Across Summers County, many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, in government, and in shops and restaurants. Unemployment has eased over the past year, though the number of jobs has dipped slightly. Relatively few adults hold a four-year degree, few people work from home, and most residents travel some distance to their jobs each day.
Things to do. Wolf Creek runs in or beside the town itself, so a river is close at hand. Bluestone State Park, a protected area a short drive away, and the Greenbrier River, also a short drive off, offer time outdoors among the trees and on the water. Bluestone Lake, a reservoir a short drive away, is another option for anyone who enjoys open water.
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- 4,680households
- 50.6median age
- 19%of adults have a degree
- 24%below the poverty line
- 35 mintypical commute
- 4%work from home
What people in Summers County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Summers County had 2,131 jobs in 2025, 1.8% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 42° and lows near 25°; warmest in July, with highs near 85° and lows near 64°. About 19 inches of snow and 41 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Bluestone Lake weather station, 7 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Summers County
- Summers County SchoolsSchool district230FTE
- ScarhHospital117
- Summers County ARHCritical access hospital110FTE
- Wvnh EMPNursing care facilities106
- Precision DeliveryFuel oil dealers, direct selling96
- Kroger Mid-Atlantic KMASupermarkets and other grocery except convenience stores65
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 4 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 384 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
- Cold wavesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms across Summers County, against the rest of the country; all of them together, very 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 Summers County.
Forest Hill home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Forest Hill$200,472
- 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 Forest Hill address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Forest Hill — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.
Zillow publishes no zip-level series with this city on the address.