Keyser, West Virginia.
Typical home $180,888 (-0.2% in a year). Cumberland, MD-WV metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$501 (+112%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $301 -0%
- $181,189$180,888 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $34,382 +23%
- $146,506$180,888 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.
- Keyser$949
- West Virginia$927
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 16 years.
Typical home values in Keyser, WV fell 0.2% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Keyser, Mineral County, West Virginia
Keyser is a city of 4,864 people in Mineral County. Half its households earn more than $46,955 a year and half less, against $69,375 across Mineral County; 32% of its people live below the poverty line. 51% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 49% are rented. Unemployment in Mineral County was 4.0% in August 2026, and the county had 0.9% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Keyser is a small city in Mineral County, West Virginia. Household incomes here run well below the county's, and a larger share of residents live below the poverty line than is typical, though owners and renters are fairly evenly balanced among the town's homes. Typical home values are modest, few adults hold a four-year degree, and getting to work takes little time. Winters are cold and snowy, with January highs near freezing and lows well below it, and summers are warm, with July the warmest month.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, in restaurants, hotels and entertainment, or in manufacturing. Across Mineral County, the largest workplaces include Northrop Grumman, which makes propulsion units for missiles and space vehicles, along with Mineral County Schools and Potomac Valley Hospital. Unemployment across the county has eased a little from a year earlier, though the county had slightly fewer jobs last year than the year before.
Things to do. The outdoors is close at hand. Savage River and Jennings Randolph Lake are both a short drive away, and Dans Mountain State Park, a protected area, is nearby too. For a longer outing, Deep Creek Lake is a reservoir a longer drive away.
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- 2,069households
- 18%of adults have a degree
- 32%below the poverty line
- 17 mintypical commute
- 11%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Mineral County had 8,616 jobs in 2025, 0.9% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 40° and lows near 21°; warmest in July, with highs near 89° and lows near 61°. About 34 inches of snow and 41 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Keyser Ssw weather station, 2 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Mineral County
- Northrop GrummanPropulsion units and parts, guided missile and space vehicle, manufacturing1,820
- Northrop Grumman SystemsGuided missile and space vehicle propulsion unit and propulsion unit parts manufacturing1,630
- Mineral County SchoolsSchool district643FTE
- Potomac Valley HospitalCritical access hospital300FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters289
- Automated Packaging Systems LLC of Sealed AirPolyethylene resins manufacturing200
- Choice Care At Home - KeyserHome care of elderly, non-medical160
- Potomac State College of West Virginia UniversityUniversity or college151
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 12 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 4,901 people in all across the county; Keyser has two 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
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- HailRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Keyser’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 Mineral County and the Cumberland, MD-WV metro.
Keyser home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Keyser$180,888
- West Virginia$176,576
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 7 Keyser listings — the market is roughly in balance.
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
Share of listings with a price cut
The early-warning dial: sellers cut when buyers stop reaching. Rising cuts cool a market months before prices notice.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Keyser19
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Keyser7
Zip codes with a Keyser address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Keyser — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.