Lashmeet, West Virginia.
Typical home $84,763 (-10.7% in a year). Bluefield, WV-VA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$225 (+102%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $10,207 -11%
- $94,969$84,763 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Down $2,901 -3%
- $87,664$84,763 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.
- Lashmeet$445
- West Virginia$927
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, prices here aren't rising.
Typical home values in Lashmeet, WV fell 10.7% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Lashmeet, Mercer County, West Virginia
Lashmeet, in Mercer County, had 409 people in the 2020 census. Unemployment in Mercer County was 4.3% in August 2026, and the county had 1.0% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Mercer 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Lashmeet is a very small community in Mercer County, West Virginia, where homes are modestly priced and a four-year degree is uncommon among adults. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month, and the town sees a fair amount of snow along with plenty of rain and melted snow across the year. Summers are mild and pleasant, with July the warmest month.
Work. Most people here work in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, in restaurants, hotels and entertainment, or in manufacturing, and very few work from home. Across Mercer County, the largest workplaces include Mercer County Schools, Walmart and Southern Highlands. The county has seen a little job growth over the past year, and its unemployment rate has come down slightly over the same stretch.
Things to do. Pocosin Fork runs in or beside town, and a short drive away are Lake Shawnee Amusement Park and Camp Creek State Park, a protected area. Pinnacle Rock State Park is also a short drive off, and Bluestone National Scenic River is a longer drive for those who want a bigger outing.
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- 6%of adults have a degree
- 4%work from home
What people in Mercer County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Mercer County had 19,507 jobs in 2025, 1.0% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 40° and lows near 24°; warmest in July, with highs near 79° and lows near 62°. About 35 inches of snow and 41 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Bluefield Mercer County Airport weather station, 9 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Mercer County
- Mercer County SchoolsSchool district1,255FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters365
- Southern HighlandsOutpatient mental health centers and clinics333
- Concord UniversityUniversity or college309
- Con-Weld IndustriesHammer mill machinery, stationary, manufacturing279
- King's Tire ServiceAutomotive tire dealers248
- Bluefield State UniversityUniversity or college229
- CMSFabricated structural metal manufacturing162
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 47 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 5,243 people in all across the county; Lashmeet has none of its own. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24) 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
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- LandslidesRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Lashmeet’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 Mercer County and the Bluefield, WV-VA metro.
Lashmeet home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Lashmeet$84,763
- 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 Lashmeet address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Lashmeet — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.
Zip codes in Lashmeet
| Zip activate to sort by Zip | Place activate to sort by Place | Population sorted descending, activate to sort ascending | Rent activate to sort by Rent | Home value activate to sort by Home value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 24736 | Matoaka | 426 | — | $63,720 |
| 24733 | Lashmeet | 122 | — | $128,871 |