Ridgeley, West Virginia.
Typical home $223,283 (+2.5% in a year). Cumberland, MD-WV metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$635 (+118%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $5,436 +2%
- $217,847$223,283 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $47,051 +27%
- $176,231$223,283 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.
- Ridgeley$1,172
- 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 Ridgeley, WV rose 2.5% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Ridgeley, Mineral County, West Virginia
Ridgeley is a town of 591 people in Mineral County. Unemployment in Mineral County was 4.0% in August 2026, and the county had 0.9% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Mineral County 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Ridgeley is a very small town on the Potomac River in Mineral County, West Virginia, with a typical home value well below what many older homeowners elsewhere would expect to pay. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month and a fair amount of snow, and summers turn warm in July. Rain and melted snow are spread through the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, shops and government also employing many people. Across Mineral County, some of the largest workplaces are Northrop Grumman, Mineral County Schools and Potomac Valley Hospital. Unemployment across the county is lower than a year earlier, though the county has slightly fewer jobs than it did the year before.
Things to do. Within or beside town are Fort Cumberland, a historic fort, and Wills Mountain State Park, a protected area for outdoor time. A short drive away, Tristate Zoological Park is a zoo and Rocky Gap State Park is another protected area. Canal Place, a museum in or beside town, is a short walk from the river.
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What people in Mineral County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Mineral County had 8,616 jobs in 2025, 0.9% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 39° and lows near 22°; warmest in July, with highs near 87° and lows near 64°. About 29 inches of snow and 39 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Cumberland weather station, under a mile away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Mineral County
- Northrop GrummanPropulsion units and parts, guided missile and space vehicle, manufacturing1,820
- Northrop Grumman SystemsGuided missile and space vehicle propulsion unit and propulsion unit parts manufacturing1,630
- Mineral County SchoolsSchool district643FTE
- Potomac Valley HospitalCritical access hospital300FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters289
- Automated Packaging Systems LLC of Sealed AirPolyethylene resins manufacturing200
- Choice Care At Home - KeyserHome care of elderly, non-medical160
- Potomac State College of West Virginia UniversityUniversity or college151
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 12 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 4,901 people in all across the county; Ridgeley has none of its own. 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
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- 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 Ridgeley’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 Mineral County and the Cumberland, MD-WV metro.
Ridgeley home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Ridgeley$223,283
- 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.
- Ridgeley11
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Ridgeley5
Zip codes with a Ridgeley address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Ridgeley — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.