Rio, West Virginia.
Typical home $231,086 (+1.6% in a year). Winchester, VA-WV metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$691 (+132%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $3,622 +2%
- $227,464$231,086 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $48,225 +26%
- $182,861$231,086 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.
- Rio$1,213
- 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 Rio, WV rose 1.6% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Rio, Hampshire County, West Virginia
The Census does not count Rio on its own, so the figures here are Hampshire County's. Half the county's households earn more than $63,116 a year and half less; 13% of the county's people live below the poverty line. 83% of the county's homes are lived in by their owners and 17% are rented. Unemployment in Hampshire County was 3.7% in August 2026, and the county had 0.1% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Hampshire County work in schools and health care, then manufacturing.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Rio is a small community in Hampshire County, in the eastern panhandle of West Virginia. The county's population is older than most of the country's, and most homes are lived in by their owners. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month, while summers are warm and the year brings a fair amount of rain and melted snow.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, or in manufacturing, the building trades and government. Unemployment has eased over the past year, while the number of jobs has stayed about the same. Commutes are long, and few people work from home.
Things to do. Lake Holiday is a lake a longer drive away, and Literary Hall is a museum in the same range of distance. Grassy Lick Run is a river in or beside town, which makes it an easy place to walk to.
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- 8,643households
- 48.5median age
- 18%of adults have a degree
- 13%below the poverty line
- 42 mintypical commute
- 9%work from home
What people in Hampshire County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Hampshire County had 4,248 jobs in 2025, 0.1% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 42° and lows near 20°; warmest in July, with highs near 86° and lows near 59°. About 37 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Wardensville R M Farm weather station, 9 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Hampshire County
- Hampshire County SchoolsSchool district432FTE
- Hampshire Memorial HospitalCritical access hospital115FTE
- Food LionGrocery stores95
- Genesis HealthcareHomes for the elderly with nursing care56
- Valley Regional EnterpriseHome health care agencies44
- Northern EagleAlcoholic beverages, wine and distilled spirits merchant wholesalers40
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 5 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 401 people in all. 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
- LandslidesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms across Hampshire County, against the rest of the country; all of them together, very 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 Hampshire County and the Winchester, VA-WV metro.
Rio home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Rio$231,086
- 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 Rio address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Rio — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.