Pine Grove, West Virginia.
Typical home $75,119 (-1.6% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$166 (+72%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $1,191 -2%
- $76,310$75,119 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $3,929 +6%
- $71,190$75,119 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.
- Pine Grove$394
- West Virginia$927
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 65 years.
Typical home values in Pine Grove, WV fell 1.6% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Pine Grove, Wetzel County, West Virginia
Pine Grove is a town of 363 people in Wetzel County. Unemployment in Wetzel County was 6.0% in August 2026, and the county had 8.9% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Wetzel County work in schools and health care, then transport and warehouses.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Pine Grove is a very small town in Wetzel County, West Virginia, where everyone is likely to know one another. Few adults here hold a four-year degree compared with the country as a whole, and the typical home is modestly priced. Winters are cold and snowy, with January the coldest month, while summers turn warm in July, and rain and melted snow fall steadily through the year.
Work. Residents of Pine Grove work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by transport, warehouses and utilities, manufacturing, and shops. Across Wetzel County, some of the largest workplaces are Wetzel County Schools, Walmart and Wetzel County Hospital. Commutes are long, very few people work from home, and unemployment in the county is a little higher than a year ago, with fewer jobs across the county than the year before.
Things to do. Shenango Creek, a river, runs in or beside town, and the Lantz Farm and Nature Preserve Wildlife Management Area, a protected area, is also in or beside town. A short drive away is the Lewis Wetzel Wildlife Management Area, another protected area, which suits walking and watching wildlife. Arches Fork, a river, is also a short drive away.
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- 10%of adults have a degree
- 44 mintypical commute
- 2%work from home
What people in Wetzel County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Wetzel County had 4,442 jobs in 2025, 8.9% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 39° and lows near 19°; warmest in July, with highs near 84° and lows near 61°. About 27 inches of snow and 47 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Middlebourne Ese weather station, 11 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Wetzel County
- Wetzel County SchoolsSchool district498FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters300
- Wetzel County HospitalGeneral hospital185FTE
- Martinsville SNF OperationsNursing homes110
- Sprouse Building ProductsWindows and window frames, vinyl, manufacturing89
- Riesbeck Food Markets, Inc., New Martinsville StoreDelicatessens primarily retailing a range of grocery items and meats20
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 4 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 519 people in all across the county; Pine Grove has none of its own. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24) and hospitals from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023); 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
- LightningRelatively high
- LandslidesRelatively 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 Pine Grove’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively high. 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 Wetzel County.
Pine Grove home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Pine Grove$75,119
- 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 Pine Grove address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Pine Grove — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.