Ona, West Virginia.
Typical home $251,035 (+4.7% in a year). Huntington-Ashland, WV-KY-OH metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$731 (+124%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $11,318 +5%
- $239,717$251,035 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $64,027 +34%
- $187,008$251,035 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.
- Ona$1,318
- 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 Ona, WV rose 4.7% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Ona, Cabell County, West Virginia
The Census does not count Ona on its own, so the figures here are Cabell County's. Half the county's households earn more than $55,832 a year and half less; 19% of the county's people live below the poverty line. 64% of the county's homes are lived in by their owners and 36% are rented. 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 people in Cabell County work in schools and health care, then shops.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Ona is a small town in Cabell County, West Virginia, where, across the county, most homes are lived in by their owners. Winters are cold with some snow, summers are warm, and rain and melted snow fall steadily through the year. A notable share of county residents live below the poverty line.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, in restaurants, hotels and entertainment, or in professional and business services. Across the county, unemployment has eased over the past year, while the number of jobs has dipped slightly. Working from home is less common than commuting, and the typical trip to work is short.
Things to do. Ona Speedway is a race track in or beside town. The Huntington Museum of Art is a museum a longer drive away, and the Green Bottom Wildlife Management Area is a protected area a short drive away.
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- 39,318households
- 39.2median age
- 33%of adults have a degree
- 19%below the poverty line
- 21 mintypical commute
- 9%work from home
What people in Cabell County 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, 5 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. 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
- Ice stormsRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively moderate
- Heat wavesRelatively moderate
- LandslidesRelatively moderate
- Winter weatherRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms across Cabell County, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively moderate. 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.
Ona home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Ona$251,035
- 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.
- Ona14
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Ona4
Zip codes with a Ona address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Ona — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.