Monterville, West Virginia.
Typical home $107,390 (+2.9% in a year). Elkins, WV metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$43 (+8%) since Jan 2024.
- 1 year
- Up $3,039 +3%
- $104,351$107,390 since Sep 2025
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.
- Monterville$564
- West Virginia$927
- United States$1,922
Typical home values in Monterville, WV rose 2.9% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Monterville, Randolph County, West Virginia
The Census does not count Monterville on its own, so the figures here are Randolph County's. Half the county's households earn more than $52,757 a year and half less; 16% of the county's people live below the poverty line. 75% of the county's homes are lived in by their owners and 25% are rented. Unemployment in Randolph County was 4.9% in August 2026, and the county had 1.5% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Randolph 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Monterville is a small town in Randolph County, in the mountains of central West Virginia. Winters here are colder than in most of the country, summers are warm, and rain and melted snow fall heavily through the year. Across Randolph County, residents are older on average than across the country as a whole, and most homes are lived in by their owners at a higher share than the national average.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, in manufacturing, and in the building trades. Unemployment is lower than it was a year earlier, though the county had slightly fewer jobs in the most recent year. Fewer adults hold a four-year degree than across the country, and few people work from home.
Things to do. Kumbrabow State Forest is a protected area a short drive away, good for walking among the trees. The Gauley River, also a short drive away, is a river for those who enjoy time on the water. Cass Scenic Railroad State Park is a museum a longer drive away, known for its historic steam trains.
Report a mistake
- 10,678households
- 44.4median age
- 20%of adults have a degree
- 16%below the poverty line
- 21 mintypical commute
- 8%work from home
What people in Randolph County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Randolph County had 10,309 jobs in 2025, 1.5% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 34° and lows near 16°; warmest in July, with highs near 75° and lows near 56°. About 63 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Kumbrabow weather station, 8 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Randolph County
- Davis Memorial HospitalGeneral hospital547FTE
- Randolph County SchoolsSchool district540FTE
- AHF ProductsApplicators, wood, manufacturing425
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters319
- Choice Care AT Home - ElkinsActivity centers for disabled persons, the elderly, and persons diagnosed with intellectual and developmental disabilities260
- Davis & Elkins CollegeUniversity or college232
- Elkins Regional Convalescent CenterNursing homes159
- Greenfield CabinetryCabinets, kitchen, stock or custom wood, manufacturing81
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 15 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,700 people in all. 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
- LandslidesRelatively moderate
- Inland floodingRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms across Randolph 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 Randolph County and the Elkins, WV metro.
Monterville home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Monterville$107,390
- 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 Monterville address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Monterville — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.
Zip codes in Monterville
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 26294 | Valley Head | 744 | — | $116,817 |
| 26282 | Monterville | 205 | — | $135,580 |