Middlebourne, West Virginia.
Typical home $106,765 (-8.0% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$299 (+114%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $9,227 -8%
- $115,992$106,765 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $11,279 +12%
- $95,486$106,765 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.
- Middlebourne$560
- West Virginia$927
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 31 years.
Typical home values in Middlebourne, WV fell 8.0% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Middlebourne, Tyler County, West Virginia
Middlebourne is a town of 717 people in Tyler County. 75% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 25% are rented. Unemployment in Tyler County was 5.2% in August 2026, and the county had 2.2% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Tyler County work in schools and health care, then transport and warehouses.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Middlebourne is a very small town in Tyler County, West Virginia, where most homes are lived in by their owners and typical home values are well below those across much of the country. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month, and the town sees a fair amount of snow as well as plenty of rain through the year. Summers are warm in July without turning extreme.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, with others in transport, warehouses and utilities, in shops, and in manufacturing. Across Tyler County, the largest workplaces include Tyler County Schools, Sistersville General Hospital and Sistersville Tank Works. Unemployment has eased slightly over the past year, and the county has added a few more jobs, though the typical commute is a short one and very few people work from home.
Things to do. The outdoors is close at hand here. Sancho Creek is a river in or beside town, and The Jug, a protected area, sits there too. Indian Creek is a short drive away and makes an easy outing, while the Muskingum River is a longer drive for anyone wanting a bigger stretch of water.
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- 369households
- 28%of adults have a degree
- 17%below the poverty line
- 20 mintypical commute
- 3%work from home
What people in Tyler County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Tyler County had 1,957 jobs in 2025, 2.2% more 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 61°. About 27 inches of snow and 47 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Middlebourne Ese weather station, 3 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Tyler County
- Tyler County SchoolsSchool district247FTE
- M.H.S. Sistersville CampusHospitals, general medical and surgical135
- Sistersville General HospitalCritical access hospital105FTE
- Genesis HealthcareSkilled nursing facilities54
- Sevita 560141_SISTERSVILLEResidential intellectual and developmental disability facilities38
- Sistersville Tank WorksWater tanks, heavy gauge metal, manufacturing24
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 4 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 251 people in all across the county; Middlebourne 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
- Strong windVery high
- LightningVery high
- LandslidesRelatively moderate
- Ice stormsRelatively moderate
- HailRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Middlebourne’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 Tyler County.
Middlebourne home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Middlebourne$106,765
- 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 Middlebourne address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Middlebourne — 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.