Newell, West Virginia.
Typical home $78,419 (+7.6% in a year). Weirton-Steubenville, WV-OH metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$209 (+103%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $5,545 +8%
- $72,874$78,419 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Down $924 -1%
- $79,343$78,419 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.
- Newell$412
- West Virginia$927
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, prices here aren't rising.
Typical home values in Newell, WV rose 7.6% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Newell, Hancock County, West Virginia
Newell, in Hancock County, had 1,203 people in the 2020 census. Unemployment in Hancock County was 4.7% in August 2026, and the county had 4.4% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Hancock 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Newell is a small community on the Ohio River in West Virginia's northern panhandle, home to a modest number of people at the last census. Homes here cost far less than in much of the country, and household incomes across Hancock County run a little below the national picture. Winters are cold, with the coldest weather in January, summers are warm, and the year brings a fair amount of rain and melted snow.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by shops, manufacturing, and restaurants, hotels and entertainment, and a small number work from home. Across Hancock County, the largest workplaces include Hancock County Schools, Ergon West Virginia and Marsh Bellofram. Unemployment across the county is lower than it was a year ago, though the county has fewer jobs than it did the year before.
Things to do. Rock Springs Park, an amusement park, and the Chester teapot, a well-known roadside attraction, are both in or beside town. A short drive away are Tomlinson Run State Park, a protected area for walking and picnics, and Little Beaver Creek, a river. For a longer outing, Meadowcroft Rockshelter is a museum a longer drive away.
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- 7%work from home
What people in Hancock County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Hancock County had 8,742 jobs in 2025, 4.4% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 37° and lows near 21°; warmest in July, with highs near 84° and lows near 63°. About 42 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the New Cumberland L/d weather station, 6 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Hancock County
- Hancock County SchoolsSchool district594FTE
- Form Factory 1Batteries, storage, manufacturing482
- Marsh BelloframFilters, electronic component-type, manufacturing334
- HLC HoldingsChina tableware, vitreous, manufacturing278
- Ergon West VirginiaAcid oils made in petroleum refineries272
- Performance Contractors, Inc.-Ergon-NewellConstruction management, oil refinery and petrochemical complex172
- Bidell Gas CompressionCompressors, air and gas, general purpose-type, manufacturing136
- Shell Lubricants CongoMotor oils, petroleum, made from refined petroleum103
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 19 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 2,293 people in all across the county; Newell has none of its own. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (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
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- HailRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Newell’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively moderate. 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 Hancock County and the Weirton-Steubenville, WV-OH metro.
Newell home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Newell$78,419
- 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 Newell address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Newell — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.