Pratt, West Virginia.
Typical home $108,072 (-5.3% in a year). Charleston, WV metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$281 (+98%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $6,018 -5%
- $114,090$108,072 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $19,885 +23%
- $88,187$108,072 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.
- Pratt$567
- West Virginia$927
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 17 years.
Typical home values in Pratt, WV fell 5.3% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Pratt, Kanawha County, West Virginia
Pratt is a town of 483 people in Kanawha County. Half its households earn more than $63,558 a year and half less, against $60,943 across Kanawha County. Unemployment in Kanawha County was 4.0% in August 2026, and the county had 1.9% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Kanawha County work in schools and health care, then shops.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Pratt is a very small town in Kanawha County, West Virginia, set along Paint Creek, with a couple of smaller creeks running beside it. Household incomes run a little above the county's, and the typical home is modest in price. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month, and summers are warm, with July the warmest. Rain and melted snow add up to a fair amount over the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, in professional and business services, and in government. Across Kanawha County, the largest workplaces include Charleston Area Medical Center, Kanawha County Schools and Thomas Memorial Hospital. Few adults in town hold a four-year degree, and few work from home, so most people travel to a job, with a commute somewhat longer than a quick drive across town.
Things to do. Water is the main draw close to home. Paint Creek and Kellys Creek run in or beside town, and Armstrong Creek is a short drive away. For a longer outing, Babcock State Park is a protected area a longer drive away, and New River Gorge National Park and Preserve, one of the best known protected areas in the region, is also a longer drive.
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- 11%of adults have a degree
- 27 mintypical commute
- 5%work from home
What people in Kanawha County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Kanawha County had 95,946 jobs in 2025, 1.9% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 43° and lows near 26°; warmest in July, with highs near 85° and lows near 66°. About 46 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the London Locks weather station, a mile away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Kanawha County
- Charleston Area Medical CenterGeneral hospital6,949FTE
- CAMC Memorial DivisionGeneral medical and surgical hospitals3,890
- Kanawha County SchoolsSchool district3,592FTE
- Thomas Memorial HospitalGeneral hospital760FTE
- GestampJob stampings, automotive, metal, manufacturing650
- Niterra North AmericaCoils, ignition, internal combustion engines, manufacturing525
- Charleston WV PDCMail and parcel delivery483
- University of CharlestonUniversity or college436
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 157 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 23,318 people in all across the county; Pratt has none of its own. Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023), school districts 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
- Inland floodingVery high
- LightningRelatively high
- LandslidesRelatively moderate
- Heat wavesRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively moderate
- Winter weatherRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Pratt’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 Kanawha County and the Charleston, WV metro.
Pratt home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Pratt$108,072
- 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 Pratt address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Pratt — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.