Onego, West Virginia.
Typical home $203,520 (+9.0% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$693 (+184%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $16,887 +9%
- $186,633$203,520 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $69,307 +52%
- $134,213$203,520 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.
- Onego$1,068
- West Virginia$927
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 8 years.
Typical home values in Onego, WV rose 9.0% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Onego, Pendleton County, West Virginia
The Census does not count Onego on its own, so the figures here are Pendleton County's. Half the county's households earn more than $64,931 a year and half less; 17% of the county's people live below the poverty line. 85% of the county's homes are lived in by their owners and 15% are rented. Unemployment in Pendleton County was 2.8% in August 2026, and the county had 0.6% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Pendleton County work in schools and health care, then manufacturing.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Onego is a small community in Pendleton County, West Virginia, set in the mountains of the state's east. Winters are cold, with snow and frost, and summers are warm. The area gets plenty of rain and melted snow over the year. Across Pendleton County, most homes are lived in by their owners, and the county's residents are older on the whole than is typical across the country.
Work. Across the county, many people work in schools, hospitals and social care, or in manufacturing, building trades, and farming, forestry and mining. Household incomes run below the country's typical level, and fewer adults hold a college degree than is common nationally. Unemployment has eased over the past year, and job numbers edged up in the most recent year. Most people drive to work, and relatively few work from home.
Things to do. Blackwater Falls is a waterfall a longer drive away, and Spruce Knob–Seneca Rocks National Recreation Area is a protected area a short drive away. Seneca Caverns, a tourist attraction, is also a short drive off.
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- 2,342households
- 50.7median age
- 18%of adults have a degree
- 17%below the poverty line
- 30 mintypical commute
- 10%work from home
What people in Pendleton County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Pendleton County had 1,505 jobs in 2025, 0.6% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 34° and lows near 18°; warmest in July, with highs near 74° and lows near 56°. About 57 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Elkins Ene weather station, 10 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Pendleton County
- Pendleton County SchoolsSchool district181FTE
- Future Generations UniversityUniversity or college28
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 Pendleton 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 Pendleton County.
Onego home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Onego$203,520
- 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 Onego address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Onego — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.