Racine, West Virginia.
Typical home $93,906 (+5.8% in a year). Charleston, WV metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$198 (+67%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $5,146 +6%
- $88,760$93,906 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $1,889 +2%
- $92,017$93,906 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.
- Racine$493
- West Virginia$927
- United States$1,922
Typical home values in Racine, WV rose 5.8% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Racine, Boone County, West Virginia
Racine, in Boone County, had 267 people in the 2020 census. Unemployment in Boone County was 4.8% in August 2026, and the county had 3.3% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Boone County work in schools and health care, then farming.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Racine is a very small community in Boone County, West Virginia, where the population is small and the median age is older than in much of the country. Homes here cost far less than the typical American home, and household incomes across Boone County sit below what is usual nationally. Winters are cold and summers warm, with a fair amount of snow and a good deal of rain.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with others in farming, forestry and mining, in shops, and in transport, warehouses and utilities. Across Boone County, the largest workplaces include Boone County Schools, Boone Memorial Hospital and a Kroger grocery operation. Unemployment in the county is a little lower than a year ago, though the county has fewer jobs than it did the year before.
Things to do. Kanawha State Forest is a protected area a short drive away, and Fork Creek Wildlife Management Area is another protected area close by. For time on the water, Drawdy Creek is a river a short drive away, and the Elk River is a longer drive for those willing to go farther.
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What people in Boone County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Boone County had 4,598 jobs in 2025, 3.3% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 45° and lows near 25°; warmest in July, with highs near 87° and lows near 65°. About 17 inches of snow and 50 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Madison 3NNW weather station, 11 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Boone County
- Boone County SchoolsSchool district519FTE
- Boone Memorial HospitalCritical access hospital281FTE
- Wvnh EMPNursing care facilities96
- Kroger Mid-Atlantic KMASupermarkets and other grocery except convenience stores81
- Jim C. Hamer Company - Madison MillSawmills23
- Goodwill Industries of Kanawha Valley453310 used merchandise stores20
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 5 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 758 people in all across the county; Racine 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
- LandslidesRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively moderate
- Heat wavesRelatively 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 Racine’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 Boone County and the Charleston, WV metro.
Racine home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Racine$93,906
- 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 Racine address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Racine — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.
Zillow publishes no zip-level series with this city on the address.