Sissonville, West Virginia.
Typical home $171,515 (+1.7% in a year). Charleston, WV metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$462 (+105%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $2,932 +2%
- $168,583$171,515 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $31,748 +23%
- $139,767$171,515 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.
- Sissonville$900
- West Virginia$927
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 17 years.
Typical home values in Sissonville, WV rose 1.7% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Sissonville, Kanawha County, West Virginia
Sissonville, in Kanawha County, had 4,084 people in the 2020 census. Half its households earn more than $66,944 a year and half less, against $60,943 across Kanawha County; 23% of its people live below the poverty line. 79% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 21% are rented. Unemployment in Kanawha County was 4.0% in August 2026, and the county had 1.9% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Kanawha 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Sissonville is a community in Kanawha County where most homes are lived in by their owners, and incomes run somewhat above the county's. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month and highs staying well above freezing even then, and summers are warm, with July the warmest. Rain and melted snow add up to a fairly wet year, and the commute to work is about average for the area.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, with shops, professional and business services, and government also employing a good number. Some of the largest workplaces across Kanawha County are Charleston Area Medical Center, Kanawha County Schools and Women & Children's Hospital. Jobs across the county slipped a little last year, and unemployment there is a little lower than a year earlier.
Things to do. Several creeks, including Tupper Creek, Second Creek and First Creek, run in or beside town. A short drive away is Woodrum Lake Wildlife Management Area, a protected area, and Schoenbaum Stadium. For a longer outing, Kanawha State Forest, another protected area, is a longer drive away.
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- 1,390households
- 15%of adults have a degree
- 23%below the poverty line
- 24 mintypical commute
- 5%work from home
What people in Kanawha County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Kanawha County had 95,946 jobs in 2025, 1.9% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 42° and lows near 20°; warmest in July, with highs near 85° and lows near 62°. About 47 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Sissonville 1SW weather station, a mile away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Kanawha County
- Charleston Area Medical CenterGeneral hospital6,949FTE
- CAMC Memorial DivisionGeneral medical and surgical hospitals3,890
- Kanawha County SchoolsSchool district3,592FTE
- Thomas Memorial HospitalGeneral hospital760FTE
- GestampJob stampings, automotive, metal, manufacturing650
- Niterra North AmericaCoils, ignition, internal combustion engines, manufacturing525
- Charleston WV PDCMail and parcel delivery483
- University of CharlestonUniversity or college436
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 157 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 23,318 people in all across the county; Sissonville has two of its own. Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023), school districts 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
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- LandslidesRelatively moderate
- Lightningrelatively high in parts of SissonvilleRelatively moderate
- Heat wavesRelatively 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 in Sissonville’s census tracts, 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 Kanawha County and the Charleston, WV metro.
Sissonville home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Sissonville$171,515
- 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.
- Sissonville6
Zip codes with a Sissonville address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Sissonville — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.