Mason, West Virginia.
Typical home $123,275 (+20.7% in a year). Point Pleasant, WV-OH metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$414 (+178%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $21,138 +21%
- $102,136$123,275 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $48,246 +64%
- $75,029$123,275 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.
- Mason$647
- West Virginia$927
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 7 years.
Typical home values in Mason, WV rose 20.7% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Mason, Mason County, West Virginia
Mason is a town of 866 people in Mason County. Half its households earn more than $45,893 a year and half less, against $49,761 across Mason County. Unemployment in Mason County was 3.5% in August 2026, and the county had 11.5% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Mason 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Mason is a small town in Mason County, West Virginia, and a quiet one by most measures. Household incomes here run below the county's, and homes sit at a modest price, which makes the town a lower-cost place to live than much of the country. Fewer adults hold a four-year degree than in many places, and the town is small enough that neighbors tend to know one another.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with shops, manufacturing, and transport, warehouses and utilities also employing many. Across Mason County, the largest workplaces include Mason County Schools, Nucor Steel West Virginia and Pleasant Valley Hospital. The county has gained jobs over the past year, and unemployment there has eased a little compared with a year earlier.
Things to do. For time outdoors, Shade River and Leading Creek are both rivers a short drive away, and McClintic Wildlife Management Area, a protected area, is close by too. History is nearby as well: the Old Meigs County Courthouse, a museum, is a short drive away. Winters are cold, with some snow, and summers turn warm, so the rivers and open land are most pleasant in the warmer months.
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- 12%of adults have a degree
What people in Mason County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Mason County had 6,881 jobs in 2025, 11.5% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 40° and lows near 22°; warmest in July, with highs near 85° and lows near 62°. About 18 inches of snow and 43 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Carpenter South weather station, 14 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Mason County
- Mason County SchoolsSchool district627FTE
- Nucor Steel West VirginiaSteel mills358
- Pleasant Valley HospitalGeneral hospital310FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters238
- American Electric Power170
- APG PolytechPolyethylene terephathalate resins manufacturing161
- Thompson Construction GroupIndustrial building construction132
- Felman ProductionsFerroalloys manufacturing106
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 18 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 2,292 people in all across the county; Mason 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 floodingVery high
- Ice stormsRelatively moderate
- Heat wavesRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively 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 Mason’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 Mason County and the Point Pleasant, WV-OH metro.
Mason home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Mason$123,275
- 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.
Zip codes with a Mason address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Mason — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.
Zillow publishes no zip-level series with this city on the address.