Parsons, West Virginia.
Typical home $122,083 (-4.3% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$325 (+103%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $5,467 -4%
- $127,550$122,083 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $16,672 +16%
- $105,411$122,083 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.
- Parsons$641
- 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 Parsons, WV fell 4.3% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Parsons, Tucker County, West Virginia
Parsons is a city of 1,327 people in Tucker County. Half its households earn more than $40,547 a year and half less, against $53,358 across Tucker County; 24% of its people live below the poverty line. 68% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 32% are rented. Unemployment in Tucker County was 3.9% in August 2026, and the county had 3.1% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Tucker County work in schools and health care, then construction.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Parsons is a small city and the seat of Tucker County, in the mountains of eastern West Virginia, with the Cheat River, Black Fork and Shavers Fork running in or beside town. Most homes here are lived in by their owners, and typical home values are modest. Household incomes run below the county's, and a good share of residents live below the poverty line. Few adults hold a four-year degree. Winters are cold, with January highs near freezing and lows well below it, and heavy snow falls each year. Summers are warm without turning hot, and rain and melted snow come in generous amounts across the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, the building trades, manufacturing, and restaurants and hotels. Across Tucker County, some of the largest workplaces are Tucker County Schools, The Clorox Company, which makes charcoal briquettes, and Cortland Acres Health and Rehab, a nursing home. Unemployment in the county is low and close to where it stood a year ago, though the county had fewer jobs last year than the year before. A fair number of people work from home.
Things to do. The outdoors is the main draw. The Cheat River is in or beside town, and the Fernow Experimental Forest, a protected area, lies right next to it. A short drive away are Blackwater Falls, a waterfall, and the Blackwater River.
Report a mistake
- 561households
- 11%of adults have a degree
- 24%below the poverty line
- 10%work from home
What people in Tucker County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Tucker County had 2,748 jobs in 2025, 3.1% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 39° and lows near 22°; warmest in July, with highs near 83° and lows near 63°. About 55 inches of snow and 55 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Parsons Southeast weather station, 3 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Tucker County
- Tucker County SchoolsSchool district171FTE
- The Clorox CompanyCharcoal briquettes, wood, manufacturing95
- Cortland Acres Health and RehabHomes for the elderly with nursing care93
- Hinchcliff AcquisitionsPallet or skid jacks manufacturing33
- Forest ServiceFederal government · Department of Agriculture20
- U.s. Fish and Wildlife ServiceFederal government · Department of the Interior20
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 3 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 221 people in all across the county; Parsons has one of its own. School districts come 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
- Inland floodingVery high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- LightningRelatively moderate
- HailRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively moderate
- Cold wavesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Parsons’ 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 Tucker County.
Parsons home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Parsons$122,083
- 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.
Market heat, inside the city limits
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Parsons10
Zip codes with a Parsons address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Parsons — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.