Metz, West Virginia.
Typical home $117,116 (+8.6% in a year). Fairmont, WV metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$358 (+139%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $9,230 +9%
- $107,886$117,116 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $24,599 +27%
- $92,517$117,116 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.
- Metz$615
- West Virginia$927
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 15 years.
Typical home values in Metz, WV rose 8.6% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Metz, Marion County, West Virginia
The Census does not count Metz on its own, so the figures here are Marion County's. Half the county's households earn more than $67,370 a year and half less; 14% of the county's people live below the poverty line. 77% of the county's homes are lived in by their owners and 23% are rented. Unemployment in Marion County was 4.1% in August 2026, and the county had 1.4% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Marion 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Metz is a small town in Marion County, in the north-central part of West Virginia, where the hills of the Appalachians run along the river valleys. Winters are cold, with lows well below freezing, and summers are warm. The climate is also wet, with plenty of rain and melted snow across the year.
Work. Across the county, many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, in professional and business services, and in government. Unemployment has eased over the past year, although the number of jobs dipped a little in the most recent year. Most people drive to work, and relatively few work from home.
Things to do. Harker Run is a river in or beside the town, so it is the easiest place to reach on foot or by a short trip. Grave Creek Mound, an archaeological site a longer drive away, is one of the best known ancient burial mounds in the region. Dents Run Wildlife Management Area, a protected area a short drive away, offers open land for walks and quiet outdoor time.
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- 23,339households
- 40.3median age
- 27%of adults have a degree
- 14%below the poverty line
- 26 mintypical commute
- 11%work from home
What people in Marion County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Marion County had 17,374 jobs in 2025, 1.4% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 39° and lows near 19°; warmest in July, with highs near 84° and lows near 60°. About 51 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Burton weather station, 3 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Marion County
- Marion County SchoolsSchool district1,114FTE
- Fairmont State UniversityUniversity or college601
- Monongahela Power CompanyDistribution of electric power555
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters405
- Pierpont Community and Technical CollegeTwo-year college155
- UPSCouriers and express delivery services137
- Genesis HealthcareSkilled nursing facilities127
- PepsiCoOther grocery and related products merchant wholesalers102
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 30 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 3,180 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
- Inland floodingRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms across Marion 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 Marion County and the Fairmont, WV metro.
Metz home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Metz$117,116
- 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 Metz address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Metz — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.