Lavalette, West Virginia.
Typical home $173,891 (+6.1% in a year). Huntington-Ashland, WV-KY-OH metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$462 (+102%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $9,994 +6%
- $163,897$173,891 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $30,259 +21%
- $143,632$173,891 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.
- Lavalette$913
- West Virginia$927
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 18 years.
Typical home values in Lavalette, WV rose 6.1% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Lavalette, Wayne County, West Virginia
Lavalette, in Wayne County, had 932 people in the 2020 census. Unemployment in Wayne County was 4.4% in August 2026, and the county had 1.0% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Wayne 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Lavalette is a small community in Wayne County, West Virginia, home to a fairly small number of people. Homes here are valued at a modest level, and none of the town's residents fall below the poverty line. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month, and summers turn properly warm by July.
Work. Residents mostly work in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by shops, then restaurants, hotels and entertainment, with some in manufacturing. Across Wayne County, the largest workplaces include the Veterans Health Administration, Wayne County Schools and Walmart. Jobs across the county slipped slightly last year, and unemployment is a little lower than it was a year earlier.
Things to do. Beech Fork State Park and Beech Fork Lake are both a short drive away, a protected area and a reservoir for time outdoors. Also a short drive off are the Huntington Museum of Art and Camden Park, an amusement park. Snow falls each winter, and the year brings a fair amount of rain, so it helps to plan outings by season.
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- 0%below the poverty line
- 4%work from home
What people in Wayne County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Wayne County had 8,412 jobs in 2025, 1.0% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 43° and lows near 26°; warmest in July, with highs near 86° and lows near 66°. About 20 inches of snow and 45 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Huntington Tri State Airport weather station, 6 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Wayne County
- Veterans Health AdministrationFederal government · Department of Veterans Affairs1,388
- Wayne County SchoolsSchool district995FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters166
- Coalfield DevelopmentRehabilitation job counseling and training, vocational139
- Solar HollerInstallation of photovoltaic panels95
- Marathon Petroleum Logistics ServicesMarine cargo handling78
- Zim's Bagging-Main PlantPlastic bag and pouch manufacturing76
- Wvnh EMPNursing care facilities66
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 15 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 973 people in all across the county; Lavalette has none of its own. Federal offices come from OPM's federal workforce data (2026) and school districts 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
- Heat wavesRelatively high
- LandslidesRelatively moderate
- Ice stormsRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively moderate
- Winter weatherrelatively high in parts of LavaletteRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Lavalette’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 Wayne County and the Huntington-Ashland, WV-KY-OH metro.
Lavalette home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Lavalette$173,891
- 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 Lavalette address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Lavalette — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.