Mount Clare, West Virginia.
Typical home $195,874 (+0.3% in a year). Clarksburg, WV metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$490 (+91%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $632 +0%
- $195,242$195,874 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $26,699 +16%
- $169,175$195,874 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.
- Mount Clare$1,028
- West Virginia$927
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 24 years.
Typical home values in Mount Clare, WV rose 0.3% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Mount Clare, Harrison County, West Virginia
The Census does not count Mount Clare on its own, so the figures here are Harrison County's. Half the county's households earn more than $60,377 a year and half less; 14% of the county's people live below the poverty line. 74% of the county's homes are lived in by their owners and 26% are rented. Unemployment in Harrison County was 3.5% in August 2026, and the county had 0.9% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Harrison County work in schools and health care, then government.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Mount Clare is a small town in Harrison County, in north-central West Virginia. Most of the figures on this page are for the whole county, since the Census does not count the town on its own. Across the county, most homes are lived in by their owners, and the typical home is valued well below the national figure.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, in government, in shops, or in professional and business services. Across the county, unemployment has eased over the past year, and the number of jobs grew slightly in the most recent year. Most people drive to work over a fairly short trip, and few work from home.
Things to do. Center Branch Wildlife Management Area, a protected area in or beside town, is the first place on the nearby list. Elk Creek, a river a short drive away, and Watters Smith Memorial State Park, another protected area a short drive off, are also close by. Jackson's Mill, a museum a longer drive away, rounds out the choices.
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- 26,353households
- 42.6median age
- 27%of adults have a degree
- 14%below the poverty line
- 22 mintypical commute
- 8%work from home
What people in Harrison County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Harrison County had 37,414 jobs in 2025, 0.9% 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 63°. About 24 inches of snow and 48 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Clarksburg weather station, 6 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Harrison County
- United Hospital CenterGeneral hospital1,744FTE
- Harrison County SchoolsSchool district1,523FTE
- Veterans Health AdministrationFederal government · Department of Veterans Affairs1,130
- MHI RJ Aviation Inc. - West Virginia Air CenterAircraft maintenance and repair services500
- Pratt & Whitney Engine Services, Inc. (Plant 81)Repair and maintenance of aircraft engines471
- Applied Construction SolutionsCompressor, metering and pumping station, gas and oil pipeline, construction436
- RDR Utility Services GroupPreparation of oil and gas field drilling sites on a contract basis403
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters378
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 67 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 9,416 people in all. Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023), school districts from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24) and federal offices from OPM's federal workforce data (2026); 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
- HailRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms across Harrison 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 Harrison County and the Clarksburg, WV metro.
Mount Clare home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Mount Clare$195,874
- 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.
- Mount Clare7
Zip codes with a Mount Clare address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Mount Clare — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.