Logan, West Virginia.
Typical home $88,345 (-1.2% in a year). Mount Gay-Shamrock, WV metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$213 (+85%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $1,033 -1%
- $89,378$88,345 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $1,899 +2%
- $86,445$88,345 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.
- Logan$464
- West Virginia$927
- United States$1,922
Typical home values in Logan, WV fell 1.2% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Logan, Logan County, West Virginia
Logan is a city of 1,439 people in Logan County. Half its households earn more than $29,832 a year and half less, against $49,723 across Logan County. Unemployment in Logan County was 5.9% in August 2026, and the county had 10.6% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Logan 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Logan is a small city in the hills of southern West Virginia, a place where most people have a degree-free working background and incomes run well below the county's as a whole. Homes here are inexpensive compared with much of the country. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month, and summers are warm, with July the hottest; rain and melted snow add up to a good deal across the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, in government, and in farming, forestry and mining. Across Logan County, the largest workplaces include Logan County Schools, Logan Regional Medical Center and Walmart. The trip to work is a short one, and few people work from home. Unemployment across the county is slightly higher than a year ago, though the county has gained jobs over the past year.
Things to do. Island Creek runs in or beside town, and Peach Creek and Copperas Mine Fork do too, so water is close at hand for a walk along the bank. Chief Logan State Park, a protected area, is a short drive away and is the nearest larger stretch of open country. Buffalo Creek, another stream, is also a short drive from town.
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- 555households
- 9%of adults have a degree
- 19 mintypical commute
- 5%work from home
What people in Logan County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Logan County had 11,617 jobs in 2025, 10.6% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 44° and lows near 27°; warmest in July, with highs near 89° and lows near 67°. About 49 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Logan weather station, a mile away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Logan County
- Logan County SchoolsSchool district757FTE
- Logan Regional Medical CenterGeneral hospital542FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters355
- Southern West Virginia Community and Technical CollegeTwo-year college192
- Lowe's Companies, INCHomecenter110
- UPSCouriers and express delivery services69
- Kroger Mid-Atlantic KMASupermarkets and other grocery except convenience stores66
- Genesis HealthcareSkilled nursing facilities55
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 9 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 777 people in all across the county; Logan 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
- Strong windRelatively moderate
- Winter weatherRelatively moderate
- Cold wavesRelatively moderate
- Heat wavesRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Logan’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 Logan County and the Mount Gay-Shamrock, WV metro.
Logan home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Logan$88,345
- 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.
Market heat, inside the city limits
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Logan12
Zip codes with a Logan address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Logan — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.
Zip codes in Logan
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25601 | Logan | 4,380 | — | $90,246 |
| 25646 | Stollings | 1,204 | — | $100,699 |