New Haven, West Virginia.
Typical home $140,098 (+9.2% in a year). Point Pleasant, WV-OH metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$443 (+151%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $11,831 +9%
- $128,266$140,098 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $43,797 +45%
- $96,301$140,098 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.
- New Haven$735
- West Virginia$927
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 9 years.
Typical home values in New Haven, WV rose 9.2% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in New Haven, Mason County, West Virginia
New Haven is a town of 1,476 people in Mason County. 81% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 19% are rented. Unemployment in Mason County was 3.5% in August 2026, and the county had 11.5% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Mason County work in schools and health care, then shops.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. New Haven is a small town on the Ohio River side of Mason County, West Virginia, where most homes are lived in by their owners. Poverty is more common here than in many places, and the typical home is valued modestly. Winters are cold, with the coldest weather in January, and summers are warm, with July the warmest month. Rain and melted snow fall steadily through the year.
Work. People who live in New Haven work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, in manufacturing, and in transport, warehouses and utilities. Among the largest workplaces across Mason County are Mason County Schools, Nucor Steel West Virginia and Pleasant Valley Hospital. Fewer adults here hold a four-year degree than across much of the country, and most people commute to work rather than working from home.
Things to do. A short drive away are McClintic Wildlife Management Area, a protected area for walking and watching wildlife, and Shade River, a river good for a quiet afternoon by the water. The Old Meigs County Courthouse, also a short drive away, is a museum for those who like local history. For a longer day out, Tu-Endie-Wei State Park is a protected area a longer drive away.
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- 710households
- 15%of adults have a degree
- 20%below the poverty line
- 26 mintypical commute
- 6%work from home
What people in Mason County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Mason County had 6,881 jobs in 2025, 11.5% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 41° and lows near 23°; warmest in July, with highs near 86° and lows near 66°. About 45 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Gallipolis weather station, 16 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Mason County
- Mason County SchoolsSchool district627FTE
- Nucor Steel West VirginiaSteel mills358
- Pleasant Valley HospitalGeneral hospital310FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters238
- American Electric Power170
- APG PolytechPolyethylene terephathalate resins manufacturing161
- Thompson Construction GroupIndustrial building construction132
- Felman ProductionsFerroalloys manufacturing106
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 18 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 2,292 people in all across the county; New Haven has one 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
- Ice stormsRelatively moderate
- Heat wavesRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively moderate
- Winter weatherRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in New Haven’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 Mason County and the Point Pleasant, WV-OH metro.
New Haven home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- New Haven$140,098
- 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.
- New Haven8
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a New Haven address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls New Haven — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.