Junior, West Virginia.
Typical home $65,071 (+10.6% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$188 (+123%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $6,213 +11%
- $58,859$65,071 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $6,823 +12%
- $58,248$65,071 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.
- Junior$342
- West Virginia$927
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 31 years.
Typical home values in Junior, WV rose 10.6% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Junior, Barbour County, West Virginia
Junior is a town of 384 people in Barbour County. Unemployment in Barbour County was 4.5% in August 2026, and the county had 0.1% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Barbour 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Junior is a very small town in Barbour County, West Virginia, where a small community lives among the hills. Homes here are priced well below what is typical for the country, and household incomes across the county run below the national level. Very few adults in town hold a four-year degree.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with shops, the building trades and professional and business services also employing many. Across Barbour County, the largest workplaces include the Barbour County Board of Education Schools, Broaddus Hospital Association and Hill Valley HealthCare. Unemployment in the county is lower than a year ago, though the number of jobs has slipped slightly.
Things to do. Zebs Creek and Roaring Creek run in or beside town, and Leading Creek and Audra State Park are a short drive away. For a longer outing, Elakala Falls, a waterfall, is a longer drive away. Winters are cold and snowy, with a good deal of rain and melted snow across the year, and summers are warm.
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- 2%of adults have a degree
What people in Barbour County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Barbour County had 3,990 jobs in 2025, 0.1% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 40° and lows near 20°; warmest in July, with highs near 82° and lows near 60°. About 57 inches of snow and 52 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Belington weather station, 3 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Barbour County
- Barbour County Board of Education SchoolsSchool district300FTE
- Broaddus Hospital AssociationCritical access hospital147FTE
- Hill Valley HealthCareSkilled nursing facilities75
- Delta Cooling TowersCooling towers manufacturing45
- Dingess Lumber CompanySawmills31
- Abenaki TimberKiln drying lumber20
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 5 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 421 people in all across the county; Junior has none of its own. 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
- LightningVery high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- HailRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively moderate
- Winter weatherRelatively moderate
- Cold wavesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Junior’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively moderate. 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 Barbour County.
Junior home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Junior$65,071
- 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 Junior address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Junior — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.
Zillow publishes no zip-level series with this city on the address.