Lindside, West Virginia.
Typical home $216,087 (+6.7% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$674 (+146%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $13,499 +7%
- $202,588$216,087 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $58,855 +37%
- $157,232$216,087 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.
- Lindside$1,134
- 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 Lindside, WV rose 6.7% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Lindside, Monroe County, West Virginia
The Census does not count Lindside on its own, so the figures here are Monroe County's. Half the county's households earn more than $56,750 a year and half less; 14% of the county's people live below the poverty line. 87% of the county's homes are lived in by their owners and 13% are rented. Unemployment in Monroe County was 4.2% in August 2026, and the county had 8.0% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Monroe 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Lindside is a small town in Monroe County, in the hills of southeastern West Virginia. Winters are cold, with snow on the ground for part of the season, and summers are warm. Across Monroe County, most homes are lived in by their owners, and many neighbors know one another well. Household incomes are lower than the county's typical level would suggest for many towns, and the area has a smaller share of adults with a four-year degree than most of the country.
Work. Many people in the county work in schools, hospitals and social care, manufacturing, restaurants and hotels, or retail shops. Unemployment in Monroe County is lower than it was a year earlier, but the number of jobs fell over the past year. Most people leave home to get to work, since only a small share work from home.
Things to do. Dropping Lick Creek and Rock Camp Creek run in or beside town, and both are good places for a walk or a quiet afternoon by the water. For a longer outing, Peters Mountain Wilderness is a protected area a short drive away, with trails through the hills.
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- 4,619households
- 46.2median age
- 15%of adults have a degree
- 14%below the poverty line
- 37 mintypical commute
- 5%work from home
What people in Monroe County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Monroe County had 1,882 jobs in 2025, 8.0% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 42° and lows near 22°; warmest in July, with highs near 84° and lows near 61°. About 24 inches of snow and 39 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Union Sse weather station, 7 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Monroe County
- Monroe County SchoolsSchool district253FTE
- Bureau of Prisons/federal Prison SystemFederal government · Department of Justice97
- Wvnh EMPNursing care facilities68
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 1 workplace with 20 or more staff, 68 people in all. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24) and federal offices from OPM's federal workforce data (2026); 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
- Cold wavesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms across Monroe 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 Monroe County.
Lindside home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Lindside$216,087
- 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 Lindside address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Lindside — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.