Given, West Virginia.
Typical home $196,100 (-0.5% in a year). Charleston, WV metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$523 (+103%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $999 -1%
- $197,099$196,100 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $23,913 +14%
- $172,187$196,100 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.
- Given$1,029
- West Virginia$927
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 27 years.
Typical home values in Given, WV fell 0.5% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Given, Jackson County, West Virginia
The Census does not count Given on its own, so the figures here are Jackson County's. Half the county's households earn more than $58,845 a year and half less; 18% of the county's people live below the poverty line. 79% of the county's homes are lived in by their owners and 21% are rented. Unemployment in Jackson County was 4.8% in August 2026, and the county had 1.0% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Jackson County work in schools and health care, then manufacturing.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Given is a community in Jackson County, West Virginia, where most homes are lived in by their owners, a larger share than across the country. Residents are older on average than the country as a whole, and the typical home is valued well below the national figure. Winters are cold and summers are warm, with modest snowfall and a good deal of rain across the year.
Work. Across Jackson County, many people work in schools, hospitals and social care, in manufacturing, in shops, and in restaurants, hotels and entertainment. Unemployment is lower than it was a year earlier, though the number of jobs has edged down slightly. Fewer adults hold a four-year degree than across the country, and the poverty rate and household incomes both sit on the weaker side of national levels.
Things to do. The Kanawha River is a river a longer drive away, and Mill Creek is a creek a short drive away. Fort Randolph, a fort, is also a longer drive away and is worth considering for a day out.
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- 11,515households
- 43.4median age
- 20%of adults have a degree
- 18%below the poverty line
- 29 mintypical commute
- 10%work from home
What people in Jackson County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Jackson County had 7,732 jobs in 2025, 1.0% fewer 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, 8 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Jackson County
- Constellium Rolled ProductsPlate, aluminum, made by flat rolling purchased aluminum1,109
- Jackson County SchoolsSchool district650FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters326
- Jackson General HospitalCritical access hospital215FTE
- Mountain View Care CenterSkilled nursing facilities125
- STAR Plastics, LLC RAVENSWOODCustom compounding of purchased plastics resins83
- Kroger Mid-Atlantic KMASupermarkets and other grocery except convenience stores76
- Hartley Oil CompanyPacking and preparing goods for shipping66
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 19 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 2,341 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 Jackson 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 Jackson County and the Charleston, WV metro.
Given home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Given$196,100
- 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 Given address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Given — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.