Renick, West Virginia.
Typical home $216,321 (+4.1% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$682 (+150%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $8,428 +4%
- $207,893$216,321 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $46,045 +27%
- $170,276$216,321 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.
- Renick$1,135
- West Virginia$927
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 14 years.
Typical home values in Renick, WV rose 4.1% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Renick, Greenbrier County, West Virginia
The Census does not count Renick on its own, so the figures here are Greenbrier County's. Half the county's households earn more than $48,218 a year and half less; 22% of the county's people live below the poverty line. 73% of the county's homes are lived in by their owners and 27% are rented. Unemployment in Greenbrier County was 4.0% in August 2026, and the county had 4.1% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Greenbrier County work in schools and health care, then restaurants and hotels.
Written by AI Claude Haiku 5.5 wrote this on 22 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Renick is a small town in Greenbrier County, in the hills of southeastern West Virginia. Across the county, the population is older than in most of the country, and most homes are lived in by their owners more often than across the nation. Incomes are lower than the national average, and more residents live below the poverty line than across the country. Typical home values are well below the national typical home.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals, and social care, or in restaurants, hotels, and entertainment. Shops and building trades also employ many people. Unemployment is lower than a year earlier, though the county has fewer jobs than it did the year before. Fewer adults hold a four-year degree than across the country, and few people work from home. Winters are colder than in most of the country, summers are warm, and snow and rain are common through the year.
Things to do. Beartown State Park, a protected area, is a short drive away. Droop Mountain Battlefield State Park, also a protected area, is likewise a short drive away. Lost World Caverns, a museum, is a longer drive away.
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- 14,788households
- 46.8median age
- 22%of adults have a degree
- 22%below the poverty line
- 25 mintypical commute
- 6%work from home
What people in Greenbrier County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Greenbrier County had 12,265 jobs in 2025, 4.1% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 39° and lows near 20°; warmest in July, with highs near 82° and lows near 60°. About 30 inches of snow and 41 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Lewisburg North weather station, 12 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Greenbrier County
- Greenbrier County SchoolsSchool district763FTE
- Greenbrier Valley Medical CenterGeneral hospital357FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters317
- West Virginia School of Osteopathic MedicineUniversity or college307
- Aviagen Turkeys Inc (ATI)Turkey production256
- West Virginia Great Barrel CoBoards, wood, made from logs or bolts192
- Greenbrier Sporting ClubGolf and country clubs124
- Harvia USSauna rooms, prefabricated, wood, manufacturing121
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 21 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 2,811 people in all. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24), hospitals from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023) 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
- LandslidesRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively moderate
- Inland floodingRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively moderate
- Winter weatherRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms across Greenbrier County, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively low. 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 Greenbrier County.
Renick home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Renick$216,321
- 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 Renick address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Renick — 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.