Poca, West Virginia.
Typical home $186,703 (+3.5% in a year). Huntington-Ashland, WV-KY-OH metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$509 (+108%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $6,242 +3%
- $180,461$186,703 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $39,363 +27%
- $147,340$186,703 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.
- Poca$980
- West Virginia$927
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 15 years.
Typical home values in Poca, WV rose 3.5% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Poca, Putnam County, West Virginia
Poca is a town of 874 people in Putnam County. 85% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 15% are rented. Unemployment in Putnam County was 3.4% in August 2026, and the county had 5.2% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in schools and health care, then manufacturing.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Poca is a very small town in Putnam County, West Virginia, set along the Pocatalico River. Nearly everyone who lives here owns their home, and homes cost less than in much of the country. Incomes in the county run well above what is typical for West Virginia, though more people in town live below the poverty line than across the country as a whole, and fewer adults hold a four-year degree than in most places. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month, and summers turn warm in July.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with many others in manufacturing, shops and other services. Across Putnam County, the largest workplaces include Toyota Motor Mfg West Virginia, Putnam County Schools and CAMC Teays Valley Hospital. Unemployment in the county is a little lower than a year ago, and the county has added jobs over the past year. Most people have a commute of a fairly short drive, and few work from home.
Things to do. The Pocatalico River runs in or beside town, and the Coal River is a short drive away for time on the water. Amherst-Plymouth Wildlife Management Area, a protected area, is also a short drive away. For a longer outing, Kanawha State Forest is a longer drive away and offers more room to explore the woods.
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- 20%of adults have a degree
- 18%below the poverty line
- 25 mintypical commute
- 3%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Putnam County had 22,322 jobs in 2025, 5.2% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 42° and lows near 23°; warmest in July, with highs near 86° and lows near 65°.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Saint Albans weather station, 6 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Putnam County
- Toyota Motor Mfg West VirginiaVehicle assembly2,390
- Putnam County SchoolsSchool district1,275FTE
- Triton ConstructionBridge construction804
- CAMC Teays Valley HospitalHospitals, general medical and surgical554
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters357
- Diamond ElectricCoils, ignition, internal combustion engines, manufacturing300
- American Electric Power257
- Kanawha Stone CompanyHighway construction244
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 65 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 8,585 people in all across the county; Poca has none of its own. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (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
- Inland floodingVery high
- Heat wavesRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- LandslidesRelatively moderate
- Ice stormsRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Poca’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 Putnam County and the Huntington-Ashland, WV-KY-OH metro.
Poca home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Poca$186,703
- 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.
- Poca8
Zip codes with a Poca address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Poca — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.