Kenna, West Virginia.
Typical home $214,702 (+1.3% in a year). Charleston, WV metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$592 (+111%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $2,760 +1%
- $211,943$214,702 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $26,291 +14%
- $188,411$214,702 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.
- Kenna$1,127
- West Virginia$927
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 27 years.
Typical home values in Kenna, WV rose 1.3% over the past year — in step with the nation.
Living in Kenna, Jackson County, West Virginia
The Census does not count Kenna on its own, so the figures here are Jackson County's. Half the county's households earn more than $58,845 a year and half less; 18% of the county's people live below the poverty line. 79% of the county's homes are lived in by their owners and 21% are rented. Unemployment in Jackson County was 4.8% in August 2026, and the county had 1.0% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Jackson 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Kenna is a small town in Jackson County, West Virginia, and the figures here describe the county as a whole, since the Census does not count the town separately. Across the county, the typical resident is in middle age or older, and most homes are lived in by their owners. Household incomes are modest, and a larger share of residents live below the poverty line than across the country as a whole. Winters are cold, summers are warm, and the area receives a good deal of rain and snowmelt over the year.
Work. Across Jackson County, many people work in schools, hospitals and social care, or in manufacturing. Shops and restaurants, hotels and entertainment venues also employ a large share of residents. Unemployment has eased over the past year, though the number of jobs has edged down slightly. Only a minority of adults hold a four-year degree, and few residents work from home.
Things to do. Woodrum Lake Wildlife Management Area is a protected area in or beside town, a good place for quiet walks among trees and water. Second Creek is a river a short drive away, and First Creek and Tupper Creek are other rivers close by. For a longer outing, the Elk River is a river a longer drive away.
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- 11,515households
- 43.4median age
- 20%of adults have a degree
- 18%below the poverty line
- 29 mintypical commute
- 10%work from home
What people in Jackson County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Jackson County had 7,732 jobs in 2025, 1.0% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 42° and lows near 20°; warmest in July, with highs near 85° and lows near 62°. About 47 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Sissonville 1SW weather station, 9 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Jackson County
- Constellium Rolled ProductsPlate, aluminum, made by flat rolling purchased aluminum1,109
- Jackson County SchoolsSchool district650FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters326
- Jackson General HospitalCritical access hospital215FTE
- Mountain View Care CenterSkilled nursing facilities125
- STAR Plastics, LLC RAVENSWOODCustom compounding of purchased plastics resins83
- Kroger Mid-Atlantic KMASupermarkets and other grocery except convenience stores76
- Hartley Oil CompanyPacking and preparing goods for shipping66
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 19 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 2,341 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
- Inland floodingRelatively moderate
- Ice stormsRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms across Jackson 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 Jackson County and the Charleston, WV metro.
Kenna home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Kenna$214,702
- 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.
- Kenna8
Zip codes with a Kenna address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Kenna — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.