Levels, West Virginia.
Typical home $204,020 (+0.1% in a year). Winchester, VA-WV metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$644 (+151%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $165 +0%
- $203,855$204,020 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $55,786 +38%
- $148,233$204,020 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.
- Levels$1,071
- West Virginia$927
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 11 years.
Typical home values in Levels, WV rose 0.1% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Levels, Hampshire County, West Virginia
The Census does not count Levels on its own, so the figures here are Hampshire County's. Half the county's households earn more than $63,116 a year and half less; 13% of the county's people live below the poverty line. 83% of the county's homes are lived in by their owners and 17% are rented. Unemployment in Hampshire County was 3.7% in August 2026, and the county had 0.1% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Hampshire 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Levels is a community in Hampshire County, in the Eastern Panhandle of West Virginia. Winters there are colder than in most of the country and bring a good deal of snow, while summers are warm. Rain and melted snow fall steadily through the year, so the seasons are easy to notice. Across Hampshire County, most homes are lived in by their owners, and home values are below the national typical level.
Work. Across Hampshire County, the largest kinds of work are in schools, hospitals and social care, manufacturing, building trades and government. Unemployment is lower than it was a year earlier, and the number of jobs has held roughly steady. Commutes are longer than in most of the country, and fewer people work from home. Fewer adults hold a four-year degree than across the country, and household incomes are below the national typical level.
Things to do. Lake Holiday, a lake a longer drive away, is the best known place to spend a day near Levels. Literary Hall, a museum also a longer drive away, offers a quieter outing indoors. Closer by, the Little Cacapon River, a river a short drive away, suits a walk or a cool afternoon by the water.
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- 8,643households
- 48.5median age
- 18%of adults have a degree
- 13%below the poverty line
- 42 mintypical commute
- 9%work from home
What people in Hampshire County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Hampshire County had 4,248 jobs in 2025, 0.1% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 39° and lows near 22°; warmest in July, with highs near 87° and lows near 64°. About 29 inches of snow and 39 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Cumberland weather station, 14 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Hampshire County
- Hampshire County SchoolsSchool district432FTE
- Hampshire Memorial HospitalCritical access hospital115FTE
- Food LionGrocery stores95
- Genesis HealthcareHomes for the elderly with nursing care56
- Valley Regional EnterpriseHome health care agencies44
- Northern EagleAlcoholic beverages, wine and distilled spirits merchant wholesalers40
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 5 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 401 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
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms across Hampshire County, against the rest of the country; all of them together, very 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 Hampshire County and the Winchester, VA-WV metro.
Levels home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Levels$204,020
- 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 Levels address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Levels — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.