Kermit, West Virginia.
Typical home $87,158 (-0.4% in a year). Huntington-Ashland, WV-KY-OH metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$201 (+78%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $326 -0%
- $87,484$87,158 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Down $5,434 -6%
- $92,591$87,158 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.
- Kermit$457
- West Virginia$927
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, prices here aren't rising.
Typical home values in Kermit, WV fell 0.4% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Kermit, Mingo County, West Virginia
Kermit is a town of 317 people in Mingo County. Unemployment in Mingo County was 7.6% in August 2026, and the county had 9.8% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Mingo County work in schools and health care, then farming.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Kermit is a very small town in Mingo County, in the hills of southern West Virginia near the Kentucky line. Homes here are priced well below what is typical for the country, and household incomes across Mingo County run below those of most of the state. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month, and summers are warm in July, with plenty of rain and melted snow through the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with others in farming, forestry and mining, in restaurants and hotels, and in shops. Across Mingo County, the largest workplaces include Mingo County Schools, Reeds Home Solutions and Everett Hannah Lumber. Unemployment in the county is a little lower than a year ago but still high, and the county has fewer jobs than it did the year before.
Things to do. Water is close at hand: Marrowbone Creek and Burning Creek run in or beside town, and Jennie Creek is a short drive away. For a longer outing, Chief Logan State Park is a protected area a longer drive off, and the Tug Fork, a river that marks much of the state's border with Kentucky, is also a longer drive away.
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What people in Mingo County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Mingo County had 4,466 jobs in 2025, 9.8% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 44° and lows near 24°; warmest in July, with highs near 86° and lows near 64°. About 48 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Inez East weather station, 6 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Mingo County
- Mingo County SchoolsSchool district561FTE
- Reeds Home SolutionsChimney, concrete, construction40
- Everett Hannah LumberSawed lumber made in sawmills20
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 2 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 60 people in all across the county; Kermit has none 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
- LandslidesRelatively moderate
- WildfireRelatively moderate
- Heat wavesRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively 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 Kermit’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 Mingo County and the Huntington-Ashland, WV-KY-OH metro.
Kermit home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Kermit$87,158
- 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 Kermit address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Kermit — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.