Rachel, West Virginia.
Typical home $113,008 (-2.0% in a year). Fairmont, WV metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$290 (+96%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $2,327 -2%
- $115,335$113,008 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $8,297 +8%
- $104,711$113,008 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.
- Rachel$593
- West Virginia$927
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 45 years.
Typical home values in Rachel, WV fell 2.0% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Rachel, Marion County, West Virginia
Rachel, in Marion County, had 224 people in the 2020 census. Unemployment in Marion County was 4.1% in August 2026, and the county had 1.4% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Marion 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Rachel is a very small community in Marion County, West Virginia, where neighbors are likely to know one another. Homes here cost far less than the national typical, and the county's household incomes sit at a comfortable middle level for the region.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with others in shops, professional and business services, and government. Across Marion County, some of the largest workplaces are Marion County Schools, Fairmont State University and Monongahela Power Company. Unemployment in the county is a little lower than a year ago, though the number of jobs has slipped slightly.
Things to do. The Hamilton Round Barn and the Wilson School, both museums, are in or beside town. A short drive away are Buffalo Creek, a river, and Dents Run Wildlife Management Area, a protected area for walking and watching wildlife. Winters are cold, summers warm, and the year brings plenty of rain and melted snow.
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What people in Marion County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Marion County had 17,374 jobs in 2025, 1.4% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 38° and lows near 19°; warmest in July, with highs near 84° and lows near 60°. About 51 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Mannington Wnw weather station, 9 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Marion County
- Marion County SchoolsSchool district1,114FTE
- Fairmont State UniversityUniversity or college601
- Monongahela Power CompanyDistribution of electric power555
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters405
- Pierpont Community and Technical CollegeTwo-year college155
- UPSCouriers and express delivery services137
- Genesis HealthcareSkilled nursing facilities127
- PepsiCoOther grocery and related products merchant wholesalers102
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 30 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 3,180 people in all across the county; Rachel has none of its own. 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
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- LightningRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Rachel’s 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 Marion County and the Fairmont, WV metro.
Rachel home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Rachel$113,008
- 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 Rachel address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Rachel — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.