Newton, West Virginia.
Typical home $140,014 (+4.0% in a year). Charleston, WV metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$401 (+120%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $5,334 +4%
- $134,680$140,014 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $19,035 +16%
- $120,978$140,014 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.
- Newton$735
- 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 Newton, WV rose 4.0% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Newton, Clay County, West Virginia
The Census does not count Newton on its own, so the figures here are Clay County's. 76% of the county's homes are lived in by their owners and 24% are rented. Unemployment in Clay County was 6.0% in August 2026, and the county had 7.1% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Clay County work in schools and health care, then construction.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Newton is a small town in Clay County, West Virginia, where most homes are lived in by their owners. The county's residents are older on average than people across the country, and fewer of them have a four-year degree than the national norm. Homes here are valued well below typical values across the country, and more residents live below the poverty line than across the country as a whole.
Work. Schools, hospitals and social care, building trades, government, and retail shops are the main kinds of work for Clay County residents. Unemployment has eased compared with a year earlier, though the county had fewer jobs in last year than the year before. Commutes are longer than most across the country, and few people work from home.
Things to do. Wallback Wildlife Management Area is a protected area a short drive away, and the West Fork Little Kanawha River, also a short drive off, is a good place for a quiet afternoon by the water. For a trip further afield, the Robey Theatre in Spencer is a theatre a longer drive away.
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- 2,972households
- 45.4median age
- 11%of adults have a degree
- 26%below the poverty line
- 45 mintypical commute
- 7%work from home
What people in Clay County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Clay County had 1,572 jobs in 2025, 7.1% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 42° and lows near 24°; warmest in July, with highs near 86° and lows near 65°. About 18 inches of snow and 53 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Clendenin weather station, 13 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Clay County
- Clay County SchoolsSchool district247FTE
- Wvnh EMPNursing care facilities79
- C S MasonryCement block laying35
- Pierson Lumber CompanyBoards, wood, made from logs or bolts24
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 3 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 138 people in all. 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
- LandslidesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms across Clay County, against the rest of the country; all of them together, very 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 Clay County and the Charleston, WV metro.
Newton home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Newton$140,014
- 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 Newton address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Newton — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.
Zip codes in Newton
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25235 | Chloe | 945 | — | $135,911 |
| 25285 | Wallback | 825 | — | $133,375 |
| 25266 | Newton | 680 | — | $139,919 |
| 25113 | Ivydale | 655 | — | $126,488 |