High View, West Virginia.
Typical home $283,933 (+4.8% in a year). Winchester, VA-WV metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$862 (+137%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $13,078 +5%
- $270,855$283,933 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $69,820 +33%
- $214,113$283,933 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.
- High View$1,490
- West Virginia$927
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 12 years.
Typical home values in High View, WV rose 4.8% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in High View, Hampshire County, West Virginia
The Census does not count High View on its own, so the figures here are Hampshire County's. Half the county's households earn more than $63,116 a year and half less; 13% of the county's people live below the poverty line. 83% of the county's homes are lived in by their owners and 17% are rented. Unemployment in Hampshire County was 3.7% in August 2026, and the county had 0.1% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Hampshire 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. High View is a town in Hampshire County, in the hilly, wooded country of eastern West Virginia. Most of the county's homes are lived in by their owners, and residents tend to be older than across most of the country. Winters are cold with a good deal of snow, summers are warm, and rain falls fairly steadily through the year.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, manufacturing, building trades, or government. Unemployment has eased a little over the past year, and the county's job count has held nearly steady. Fewer adults hold a university degree than across the country as a whole, and few people work from home, so most people travel out to a workplace each day.
Things to do. The Shenandoah River, one of the best known rivers in the region, is a longer drive away, while Edwards Run, a river, is a short drive away. Edwards Run Wildlife Management Area, a protected area, is also a short drive away. Literary Hall, a museum, is a longer drive away.
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- 8,643households
- 48.5median age
- 18%of adults have a degree
- 13%below the poverty line
- 42 mintypical commute
- 9%work from home
What people in Hampshire County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Hampshire County had 4,248 jobs in 2025, 0.1% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 41° and lows near 21°; warmest in July, with highs near 85° and lows near 62°. About 25 inches of snow and 40 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Star Tannery weather station, 8 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Hampshire County
- Hampshire County SchoolsSchool district432FTE
- Hampshire Memorial HospitalCritical access hospital115FTE
- Food LionGrocery stores95
- Genesis HealthcareHomes for the elderly with nursing care56
- Valley Regional EnterpriseHome health care agencies44
- Northern EagleAlcoholic beverages, wine and distilled spirits merchant wholesalers40
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 5 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 401 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
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms across Hampshire 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 Hampshire County and the Winchester, VA-WV metro.
High View home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- High View$283,933
- 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.
Market heat, inside the city limits
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- High View10
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a High View address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls High View — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.