Sutton, West Virginia.
Typical home $133,715 (-1.3% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$381 (+119%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $1,777 -1%
- $135,492$133,715 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $21,379 +19%
- $112,336$133,715 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.
- Sutton$702
- West Virginia$927
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 20 years.
Typical home values in Sutton, WV fell 1.3% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Sutton, Braxton County, West Virginia
Sutton is a town of 863 people in Braxton County. Half its households earn more than $42,817 a year and half less, against $50,331 across Braxton County. Unemployment in Braxton County was 3.3% in August 2026, and the county had 33.1% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Braxton County work in schools and health care, then construction.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Sutton is a small town in Braxton County, West Virginia, and its residents are older on the whole than people across the country. Household incomes in town run below the county's, and homes here are modestly priced. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month, summers turn warm in July, and rain and melted snow fall in good measure through the year.
Work. Residents of Sutton work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with others in the building trades, professional and business services, and shops. Across Braxton County, the largest workplaces include Braxton County Schools, Braxton County Memorial Hospital and Weyerhaeuser. Unemployment in the county is lower than it was a year earlier, and the county has recently added many more jobs than it had the year before.
Things to do. Sutton Lake is a reservoir in or beside town, and Granny Creek, a river, also runs in or beside town. A short drive away, the Elk River Wildlife Management Area is a protected area for time outdoors. Burnsville Lake, another reservoir, is a longer drive away.
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- 14%of adults have a degree
What people in Braxton County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Braxton County had 4,975 jobs in 2025, 33.1% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 43° and lows near 23°; warmest in July, with highs near 87° and lows near 64°. About 52 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Sutton Lake weather station, a mile away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Braxton County
- Asplundh Tree ExpertTree trimming services528
- Braxton County SchoolsSchool district262FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters216
- WeyerhaeuserOsb manufacturing174
- Braxton County Memorial HospitalCritical access hospital135FTE
- Appalachian Timber ServicesBridge and trestle parts, wood, treating71
- Wvnh EMPNursing care facilities71
- Go-MartCorporate subsidiary and regional managing offices66
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 10 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,370 people in all across the county; Sutton has none of its own. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24) and hospitals from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023); 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
- LightningRelatively high
- LandslidesRelatively moderate
- HailRelatively moderate
- Cold wavesRelatively moderate
- Winter weatherRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Sutton’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 Braxton County.
Sutton home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Sutton$133,715
- 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.
- Sutton16
Zip codes with a Sutton address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Sutton — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.
Zip codes in Sutton
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 26601 | Sutton | 4,121 | — | $132,202 |
| 26610 | Birch River | 723 | — | $136,585 |