Rock, West Virginia.
Typical home $137,571 (-1.0% in a year). Bluefield, WV-VA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$436 (+152%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $1,410 -1%
- $138,981$137,571 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $35,416 +35%
- $102,155$137,571 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.
- Rock$722
- 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 Rock, WV fell 1.0% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Rock, Mercer County, West Virginia
The Census does not count Rock on its own, so the figures here are Mercer County's. Half the county's households earn more than $53,210 a year and half less; 16% of the county's people live below the poverty line. 73% of the county's homes are lived in by their owners and 27% are rented. Unemployment in Mercer County was 4.3% in August 2026, and the county had 1.0% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Mercer 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Rock is a town in Mercer County, in southern West Virginia. Winters are cold and bring a good deal of snow, summers are warm, and rain falls through much of the year. Most homes across the county are lived in by their owners.
Work. Across Mercer County, unemployment has eased over the past year and the number of jobs has grown slightly. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, shops, restaurants, hotels and entertainment, or manufacturing. Incomes across the county run below the national median.
Things to do. Widemouth Creek runs in or beside town, and Pinnacle Rock State Park, a protected area, is a short drive away. Lake Shawnee Amusement Park, an amusement park, is also a short drive off, and the Bluestone National Scenic River, a protected area, lies a longer drive away.
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- 24,224households
- 43.5median age
- 23%of adults have a degree
- 16%below the poverty line
- 24 mintypical commute
- 7%work from home
What people in Mercer County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Mercer County had 19,507 jobs in 2025, 1.0% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 40° and lows near 24°; warmest in July, with highs near 79° and lows near 62°. About 35 inches of snow and 41 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Bluefield Mercer County Airport weather station, 7 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Mercer County
- Mercer County SchoolsSchool district1,255FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters365
- Southern HighlandsOutpatient mental health centers and clinics333
- Concord UniversityUniversity or college309
- Con-Weld IndustriesHammer mill machinery, stationary, manufacturing279
- King's Tire ServiceAutomotive tire dealers248
- Bluefield State UniversityUniversity or college229
- CMSFabricated structural metal manufacturing162
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 47 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 5,243 people in all. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24) 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
- LandslidesRelatively moderate
- Cold wavesRelatively moderate
- Inland floodingRelatively moderate
- Winter weatherRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively 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 Mercer County, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively 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 Mercer County and the Bluefield, WV-VA metro.
Rock home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Rock$137,571
- 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.
- Rock9
Zip codes with a Rock address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Rock — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.