Milton, West Virginia.
Typical home $217,734 (+5.7% in a year), asking rent $1,356 . Huntington-Ashland, WV-KY-OH metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$640 (+127%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $11,722 +6%
- $206,012$217,734 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $56,139 +35%
- $161,595$217,734 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.
- Milton$1,143
- West Virginia$927
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 12 years.
Typical home values in Milton, WV rose 5.7% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Milton, Cabell County, West Virginia
Milton is a town of 2,811 people in Cabell County. Unemployment in Cabell County was 3.8% in August 2026, and the county had 0.5% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in schools and health care, then transport and warehouses.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Milton is a small town in Cabell County, West Virginia, where most people know their neighbors. Homes here are valued well below what is typical across much of the country, and household incomes in the county run below the national picture. Fewer adults hold a four-year degree than in many places, and the usual trip to work is a short one.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by transport, warehouses and utilities, shops, and professional and business services. Across Cabell County, the largest workplaces include Cabell Huntington Hospital, Marshall University and Cabell County Schools. Jobs in the county slipped slightly last year, and unemployment is a little lower than it was a year earlier.
Things to do. Mill Creek Wildlife Management Area, a protected area, and Ona Speedway, a race track, are both a short drive away, as is the Mud River. A longer drive brings you to Beech Fork State Park and the Huntington Museum of Art. Winters are cold with some snow, summers are warm, and rain falls throughout the year, so outdoor outings suit the milder months best.
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- 1,148households
- 18%of adults have a degree
- 21 mintypical commute
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Cabell County had 51,765 jobs in 2025, 0.5% fewer 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 88° and lows near 67°. About 10 inches of snow and 47 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Pea Ridge Psd weather station, 9 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Cabell County
- St. Marys Medical CenterGeneral hospital2,765FTE
- Cabell Huntington HospitalGeneral hospital2,556FTE
- Marshall UniversityUniversity or college2,035
- Cabell County SchoolsSchool district1,769FTE
- Choice Care At HomeActivity centers for disabled persons, the elderly, and persons diagnosed with intellectual and developmental disabilities719
- Special MetalsBar, nonferrous metals, made from purchased metals in wire drawing plants or in integrated secondary smelting and rolling, drawing, or extruding plants705
- Steel of West VirginiaSteel manufacturing610
- Alcon ResearchSurgical supplies manufacturing570
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 97 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 20,371 people in all across the county; Milton has two of its own. Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023), colleges from IPEDS (NCES, 2023–24) 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
- DroughtRelatively moderate
- Ice stormsRelatively moderate
- Winter weatherRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Milton’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 Cabell County and the Huntington-Ashland, WV-KY-OH metro.
Milton home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Milton$217,734
- West Virginia$176,576
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 5 Milton listings — the market is roughly in balance.
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
Share of listings with a price cut
The early-warning dial: sellers cut when buyers stop reaching. Rising cuts cool a market months before prices notice.
- Milton18.89%
- United States25.56%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Milton17
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a Milton address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Milton — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.