Naoma, West Virginia.
Typical home $63,343 (+4.8% in a year). Beckley, WV metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$162 (+95%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $2,911 +5%
- $60,432$63,343 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $1,242 +2%
- $62,101$63,343 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.
- Naoma$332
- West Virginia$927
- United States$1,922
Typical home values in Naoma, WV rose 4.8% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Naoma, Raleigh County, West Virginia
The Census does not count Naoma on its own, so the figures here are Raleigh County's. Half the county's households earn more than $52,150 a year and half less; 23% 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 Raleigh County was 4.2% in August 2026, and the county had 0.5% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Raleigh 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Naoma sits in Raleigh County in the hills of southern West Virginia, a region shaped by Appalachian landscape and by the coal mining that drew many families here over the years. Most homes across Raleigh County are lived in by their owners, and many households have modest incomes, with a sizable share living below the poverty line. Winters bring cold weather and snow, summers are warm, and rain and melted snow fall in generous amounts through the year.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, and in restaurants, hotels and entertainment, with professional and business services also providing jobs. Across the county, joblessness has eased over the past year, and the number of jobs has dipped slightly from the previous year. Relatively few people work from home, so most people travel out to their jobs each day.
Things to do. New River Gorge National Park and Preserve, a protected area a longer drive away, is one of the better-known natural places in the region. Babcock State Park, also a protected area a longer drive away, offers another outdoor destination, and the Cabin Creek river is a further option for those who enjoy water and quiet countryside.
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- 29,004households
- 42.9median age
- 22%of adults have a degree
- 23%below the poverty line
- 24 mintypical commute
- 8%work from home
What people in Raleigh County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Raleigh County had 32,153 jobs in 2025, 0.5% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 42° and lows near 23°; warmest in July, with highs near 84° and lows near 63°. About 21 inches of snow and 51 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Oceana Southeast weather station, 15 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Raleigh County
- Raleigh County SchoolsSchool district1,537FTE
- Raleigh General HospitalGeneral hospital887FTE
- Veterans Health AdministrationFederal government · Department of Veterans Affairs814
- Beckley ARHGeneral hospital556FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters355
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters314
- West Virginia University Institute of TechnologyUniversity or college238
- Pyramid West Virginia ManagementResort hotels without casinos237
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 50 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 5,446 people in all. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24), hospitals from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023), federal offices from OPM's federal workforce data (2026) 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
- Winter weatherRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively moderate
- Ice stormsRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms across Raleigh 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 Raleigh County and the Beckley, WV metro.
Naoma home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Naoma$63,343
- 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 Naoma address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Naoma — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.