Old Fields, West Virginia.
Typical home $235,446 (-1.2% in a year). Winchester, VA-WV metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$687 (+125%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $2,920 -1%
- $238,366$235,446 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $40,308 +21%
- $195,138$235,446 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.
- Old Fields$1,236
- West Virginia$927
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 18 years.
Typical home values in Old Fields, WV fell 1.2% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Old Fields, Hardy County, West Virginia
The Census does not count Old Fields on its own, so the figures here are Hardy County's. Half the county's households earn more than $49,272 a year and half less; 18% of the county's people live below the poverty line. 77% of the county's homes are lived in by their owners and 23% are rented. Unemployment in Hardy County was 3.2% in August 2026, and the county had 0.1% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Hardy County work in manufacturing, then schools and health care.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Old Fields is a small town in Hardy County, in the hills of eastern West Virginia. Across the county, most homes are lived in by their owners, and neighbors tend to know one another. The winters are colder and snowier than in much of the country, while the summers are warm and the rain falls steadily through the year.
Work. Many residents work in manufacturing, in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, or in farming, forestry and mining. Unemployment has eased over the past year, and the number of jobs in the county has barely changed. Few people work from home, so most daily life happens beyond the front door.
Things to do. Blackwater Falls is a waterfall a longer drive away, and Smoke Hole Caverns is a tourist attraction a longer drive away. Right in or beside town, South Branch Wildlife Management Area is a protected area for walking and watching wildlife.
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- 5,954households
- 46.7median age
- 16%of adults have a degree
- 18%below the poverty line
- 30 mintypical commute
- 9%work from home
What people in Hardy County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Hardy County had 6,072 jobs in 2025, 0.1% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 42° and lows near 20°; warmest in July, with highs near 87° and lows near 61°. About 21 inches of snow and 35 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Moorefield Sse weather station, 8 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Hardy County
- PilgrimsProcessed poultry manufacturing1,120
- Pilgrims Moorefield PFPoultry processing660
- Hardy County SchoolsSchool district307FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters191
- Eastern West Virginia Community and Technical CollegeTwo-year college89
- Christopher Peacock HomeKitchen cabinets, stock or custom wood, manufacturing75
- Wvnh EMPNursing care facilities57
- Food LionGrocery stores42
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 11 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 2,293 people in all. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24) 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
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms across Hardy 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 Hardy County and the Winchester, VA-WV metro.
Old Fields home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Old Fields$235,446
- 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 Old Fields address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Old Fields — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.