Holden, West Virginia.
Typical home $81,260 (-5.8% in a year). Mount Gay-Shamrock, WV metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$162 (+61%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $5,049 -6%
- $86,309$81,260 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Down $4,209 -5%
- $85,469$81,260 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.
- Holden$427
- West Virginia$927
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, prices here aren't rising.
Typical home values in Holden, WV fell 5.8% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Holden, Logan County, West Virginia
Holden, in Logan County, had 783 people in the 2020 census. 94% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 6% are rented. Unemployment in Logan County was 5.9% in August 2026, and the county had 10.6% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Logan 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Holden is a small community in Logan County, in the coalfield country of southern West Virginia. Nearly everyone who lives here owns their home, far more than is usual across the country, and few residents live below the poverty line. Homes cost well under what is typical nationally. Winters are cold, with the lowest temperatures in January, summers turn hot by July, and rain and melted snow add up to a good deal over the year.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, with shops, government, and farming, forestry and mining also employing people. Across Logan County, the largest workplaces include Logan County Schools, Logan Regional Medical Center and Walmart. Commutes are short, and only a small share of people work from home.
Things to do. Chief Logan State Park, a protected area, is a short drive away, as is Laurel Lake Wildlife Management Area, another protected area for time outdoors. Island Creek, a river, is also a short drive away, and Buffalo Creek, a river, is a longer drive.
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- 3%below the poverty line
- 15 mintypical commute
- 7%work from home
What people in Logan County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Logan County had 11,617 jobs in 2025, 10.6% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 44° and lows near 27°; warmest in July, with highs near 89° and lows near 67°. About 49 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Logan weather station, 6 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Logan County
- Logan County SchoolsSchool district757FTE
- Logan Regional Medical CenterGeneral hospital542FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters355
- Southern West Virginia Community and Technical CollegeTwo-year college192
- Lowe's Companies, INCHomecenter110
- UPSCouriers and express delivery services69
- Kroger Mid-Atlantic KMASupermarkets and other grocery except convenience stores66
- Genesis HealthcareSkilled nursing facilities55
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 9 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 777 people in all across the county; Holden 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
- Inland floodingVery high
- WildfireRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively moderate
- Cold wavesRelatively moderate
- Winter weatherRelatively moderate
- Heat wavesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Holden’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 Logan County and the Mount Gay-Shamrock, WV metro.
Holden home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Holden$81,260
- 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 Holden address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Holden — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.