Normantown, West Virginia.
Typical home $113,308 (+7.9% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$320 (+117%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $8,327 +8%
- $104,980$113,308 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $10,468 +10%
- $102,840$113,308 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.
- Normantown$595
- West Virginia$927
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 36 years.
Typical home values in Normantown, WV rose 7.9% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Normantown, Gilmer County, West Virginia
The Census does not count Normantown on its own, so the figures here are Gilmer County's. Half the county's households earn more than $47,981 a year and half less; 19% of the county's people live below the poverty line. 76% of the county's homes are lived in by their owners and 24% are rented. Unemployment in Gilmer County was 3.7% in August 2026, and the county had 2.3% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Gilmer County work in schools and health care, then farming.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Normantown is a small community in Gilmer County, in the hill country of north-central West Virginia. Across the county, most homes are lived in by their owners, and residents are older on average than across the country as a whole. Incomes run below the national level, and more households live close to the poverty line than in most of the country.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, while others work in farming, forestry and mining. Restaurants, hotels and entertainment, along with government, also employ people across the county. Jobs grew over the past year, and unemployment is lower than it was a year earlier. Few adults hold a four-year degree, and most people drive a fair distance to work, with very few working from home.
Things to do. Stumptown Wildlife Management Area lies in or beside town, so it is the easiest place to walk or spend time outdoors. Cedar Creek State Park, a protected area, and Steer Creek, a river, are both a short drive away. Winters here are cold and snowy and summers are warm, so the best months for time outside are the milder ones.
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- 2,254households
- 41.5median age
- 18%of adults have a degree
- 19%below the poverty line
- 32 mintypical commute
- 3%work from home
What people in Gilmer County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Gilmer County had 1,784 jobs in 2025, 2.3% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 39° and lows near 20°; warmest in July, with highs near 82° and lows near 61°. About 28 inches of snow and 50 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Rosedale Nnw weather station, 6 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Gilmer County
- Glenville State UniversityUniversity or college304
- Gilmer County SchoolsSchool district146FTE
- Bureau of Prisons/federal Prison SystemFederal government · Department of Justice144
- Glenville Health and RehabilitationNursing homes89
- Flying W PlasticsPlastic pipe manufacturing88
- AramarkFood service contractors74
- Lignetics ofPressing blocks, wood, tailor's, manufacturing30
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 4 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 281 people in all. Colleges come from IPEDS (NCES, 2023–24), school districts from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24) and federal offices from OPM's federal workforce data (2026); 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 Gilmer 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 Gilmer County.
Normantown home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Normantown$113,308
- 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 Normantown address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Normantown — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.