Gauley Bridge, West Virginia.
Typical home $97,131 (+4.8% in a year). Beckley, WV metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$272 (+115%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $4,447 +5%
- $92,685$97,131 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $16,609 +21%
- $80,522$97,131 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.
- Gauley Bridge$510
- West Virginia$927
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 18 years.
Typical home values in Gauley Bridge, WV rose 4.8% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Gauley Bridge, Fayette County, West Virginia
Gauley Bridge is a town of 553 people in Fayette County. Unemployment in Fayette County was 4.3% in August 2026, and the county had 1.3% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Fayette 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Gauley Bridge is a very small town in Fayette County, West Virginia, where neighbors are likely to know one another. Homes here cost far less than in most of the country, and incomes across the county run below the national level. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month, summers are warm, and rain and melted snow fall steadily through the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by shops, restaurants and hotels, and the building trades. Across Fayette County, some of the largest workplaces are Fayette County Schools, Adventures on the Gorge and Plateau Medical Center. Fewer adults here hold a four-year degree than in many places, and the county has added a few more jobs over the past year.
Things to do. Kanawha Falls, a waterfall, lies in or beside town, and Seneca Creek runs there too. A short drive away is Hawks Nest State Park, and a longer drive leads to New River Gorge National Park and Preserve.
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- 14%of adults have a degree
What people in Fayette County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Fayette County had 10,398 jobs in 2025, 1.3% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 42° and lows near 23°; warmest in July, with highs near 84° and lows near 62°. About 48 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Anstead Hawks Nest Sp weather station, 6 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Fayette County
- Fayette County SchoolsSchool district796FTE
- AramarkHotels and motels435
- Plateau Medical CenterCritical access hospital286FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters282
- BridgeValley Community & Technical CollegeTwo-year college240
- FerroglobeElectrometallurgical ferroalloy manufacturing183
- Montgomery General HospitalCritical access hospital175FTE
- Lowe's Companies, INCHomecenter121
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 19 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,838 people in all across the county; Gauley Bridge has none of its own. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24), hospitals from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023) 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
- LightningVery high
- Inland floodingVery high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- LandslidesRelatively 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 Gauley Bridge’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 Fayette County and the Beckley, WV metro.
Gauley Bridge home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Gauley Bridge$97,131
- 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 Gauley Bridge address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Gauley Bridge — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.