Glen Daniel, West Virginia.
Typical home $160,980 (-1.9% in a year). Beckley, WV metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$453 (+116%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $3,051 -2%
- $164,032$160,980 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $30,689 +24%
- $130,291$160,980 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.
- Glen Daniel$845
- West Virginia$927
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 16 years.
Typical home values in Glen Daniel, WV fell 1.9% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Glen Daniel, Raleigh County, West Virginia
The Census does not count Glen Daniel on its own, so the figures here are Raleigh County's. Half the county's households earn more than $52,150 a year and half less; 23% of the county's people live below the poverty line. 75% of the county's homes are lived in by their owners and 25% are rented. Unemployment in Raleigh County was 4.2% in August 2026, and the county had 0.5% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Raleigh 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Glen Daniel is a small town in Raleigh County, in southern West Virginia. Winters here are cold and bring a fair amount of snow, while summers are warm, and rain falls through much of the year. Across Raleigh County, most homes are lived in by their owners, and typical home values sit well below the national figure.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, in restaurants, hotels and entertainment, and in professional and business services. Across the county, the number of jobs slipped a little last year, and unemployment is a bit lower than it was a year earlier. Commutes tend to be on the modest side, and few people work from home, while fewer adults hold a four-year degree than in most of the country.
Things to do. The New River Gorge National Park and Preserve, a protected area a longer drive away, is one of the best known natural places in the region. Babcock State Park, also a protected area a longer drive away, offers another setting for time outdoors. Closer by, the Phillips-Sprague Mine, a museum a short drive away, offers a look at the area's coal mining past.
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- 29,004households
- 42.9median age
- 22%of adults have a degree
- 23%below the poverty line
- 24 mintypical commute
- 8%work from home
What people in Raleigh County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Raleigh County had 32,153 jobs in 2025, 0.5% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 40° and lows near 19°; warmest in July, with highs near 79° and lows near 58°. About 38 inches of snow and 43 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Beckley Va Hospital weather station, 10 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Raleigh County
- Raleigh County SchoolsSchool district1,537FTE
- Raleigh General HospitalGeneral hospital887FTE
- Veterans Health AdministrationFederal government · Department of Veterans Affairs814
- Beckley ARHGeneral hospital556FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters355
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters314
- West Virginia University Institute of TechnologyUniversity or college238
- Pyramid West Virginia ManagementResort hotels without casinos237
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 50 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 5,446 people in all. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24), hospitals from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023), federal offices from OPM's federal workforce data (2026) 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
- LandslidesRelatively moderate
- Inland floodingRelatively moderate
- Winter weatherRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively moderate
- Ice stormsRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms across Raleigh 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 Raleigh County and the Beckley, WV metro.
Glen Daniel home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Glen Daniel$160,980
- 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 Glen Daniel address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Glen Daniel — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.