Mount Lookout, West Virginia.
Typical home $201,267 (+6.8% in a year). Beckley, WV metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$637 (+152%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $12,794 +7%
- $188,473$201,267 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $60,194 +43%
- $141,073$201,267 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 Lookout$1,056
- West Virginia$927
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 10 years.
Typical home values in Mount Lookout, WV rose 6.8% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Mount Lookout, Fayette County, West Virginia
The Census does not count Mount Lookout on its own, so the figures here are Fayette County's. Half the county's households earn more than $53,194 a year and half less; 19% of the county's people live below the poverty line. 78% of the county's homes are lived in by their owners and 22% are rented. Unemployment in Fayette County was 4.3% in August 2026, and the county had 1.3% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Fayette 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Mount Lookout is a small community in Fayette County, West Virginia, where most homes across the county are lived in by their owners. Winters are cold and snowy, with a good deal of snow and plenty of rain, while summers are warm and the hottest weather arrives in July. Seasons shape daily life here, so people tend to plan around the snow and the warm months.
Work. Across Fayette County, many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, in restaurants, hotels and entertainment, and in the building trades. Unemployment has eased over the past year, and the number of jobs has grown slightly. Most people drive to work, and relatively few work from home.
Things to do. The Meadow River runs in or beside town, so it is close at hand for a walk or a quiet afternoon by the water. Gauley River National Recreation Area, a protected area, is a short drive away. New River Gorge National Park and Preserve, also a protected area, is a longer drive but is one of the best known natural places in the region.
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- 15,948households
- 44.7median age
- 16%of adults have a degree
- 19%below the poverty line
- 30 mintypical commute
- 7%work from home
What people in Fayette County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Fayette County had 10,398 jobs in 2025, 1.3% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 38° and lows near 19°; warmest in July, with highs near 81° and lows near 58°. About 68 inches of snow and 55 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Mount Nebo South weather station, 4 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Fayette County
- Fayette County SchoolsSchool district796FTE
- AramarkHotels and motels435
- Plateau Medical CenterCritical access hospital286FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters282
- BridgeValley Community & Technical CollegeTwo-year college240
- FerroglobeElectrometallurgical ferroalloy manufacturing183
- Montgomery General HospitalCritical access hospital175FTE
- Lowe's Companies, INCHomecenter121
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 19 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,838 people in all. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24), hospitals from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023) 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
- LightningRelatively high
- LandslidesRelatively moderate
- Winter weatherRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms across Fayette 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 Fayette County and the Beckley, WV metro.
Mount Lookout home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Mount Lookout$201,267
- 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 Lookout15
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Mount Lookout5
Zip codes with a Mount Lookout address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Mount Lookout — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.
Zip codes in Mount Lookout
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 26678 | Mount Lookout | 1,427 | — | $237,157 |
| 25854 | Hico | 704 | — | $194,929 |