Hamlin, West Virginia.
Typical home $108,299 (-7.1% in a year). Charleston, WV metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$264 (+86%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $8,291 -7%
- $116,590$108,299 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $4,510 +4%
- $103,789$108,299 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.
- Hamlin$568
- West Virginia$927
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 81 years.
Typical home values in Hamlin, WV fell 7.1% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Hamlin, Lincoln County, West Virginia
Hamlin is a town of 1,039 people in Lincoln County. Unemployment in Lincoln County was 4.7% in August 2026, and the county had 7.6% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Lincoln 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Hamlin is a small town and the seat of Lincoln County in West Virginia, where neighbors tend to know one another. Homes here are inexpensive, and across Lincoln County household incomes sit below the typical level for the state's better-off areas. Winters are cold, with January highs staying cool and lows well below freezing, and summers turn warm in July. Snow falls through the winter, and the year brings plenty of rain as well.
Work. Residents of Hamlin work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by shops, professional and business services, and government. Across Lincoln County, the largest workplaces include Lincoln County Schools and Choice Care At Home - Charleston. Jobs across the county grew over the past year, and unemployment there has come down from a year earlier.
Things to do. Upper Mud River Wildlife Management Area is a protected area a short drive away, a place for walking and time outdoors. A longer drive brings you to Beech Fork State Park, a protected area, and to the Guyandotte River, one of the rivers that run through this part of West Virginia. The Huntington Museum of Art, also a longer drive away, offers an indoor outing.
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- 16%of adults have a degree
What people in Lincoln County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Lincoln County had 2,608 jobs in 2025, 7.6% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 44° and lows near 23°; warmest in July, with highs near 88° and lows near 64°. About 18 inches of snow and 48 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Hamlin weather station, under a mile away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Lincoln County
- Lincoln County SchoolsSchool district477FTE
- Choice Care At Home - CharlestonActivity centers for disabled persons, the elderly, and persons diagnosed with intellectual and developmental disabilities230
- Wvnh EMPNursing care facilities75
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 2 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 305 people in all across the county; Hamlin has one of its own. School districts come 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 floodingVery high
- Heat wavesRelatively high
- LandslidesRelatively moderate
- Ice stormsRelatively moderate
- Winter weatherRelatively 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 Hamlin’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 Lincoln County and the Charleston, WV metro.
Hamlin home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Hamlin$108,299
- 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 Hamlin address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Hamlin — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.