Rupert, West Virginia.
Typical home $113,439 (-1.1% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$316 (+113%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $1,314 -1%
- $114,753$113,439 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $12,373 +12%
- $101,067$113,439 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.
- Rupert$595
- West Virginia$927
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 30 years.
Typical home values in Rupert, WV fell 1.1% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Rupert, Greenbrier County, West Virginia
Rupert is a town of 877 people in Greenbrier County. 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 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Rupert is a very small town in Greenbrier County, West Virginia, where homes cost less than in much of the country and household incomes across the county run below the national picture. Few adults here hold a four-year degree. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month, while summers stay mild and the year brings plenty of rain and melted snow.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by restaurants, hotels and entertainment, shops, and the building trades. Across Greenbrier County, the largest workplaces include Greenbrier County Schools, Greenbrier Valley Medical Center and Walmart. Unemployment across 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. The Meadow River Wildlife Management Area is a protected area in or beside town. A longer drive away are New River Gorge National Park and Preserve, a large protected area, and Babcock State Park, another protected area. The Greenbrier River, also a longer drive away, offers a river to follow through the hills.
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- 4%of adults have a degree
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 34° and lows near 19°; warmest in July, with highs near 77° and lows near 58°. About 53 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Rupert North weather station, 4 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 across the county; Rupert 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 floodingVery high
- Cold wavesVery high
- LightningVery high
- LandslidesRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Rupert’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 Greenbrier County.
Rupert home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Rupert$113,439
- 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 Rupert address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Rupert — 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.