Salt Rock, West Virginia.
Typical home $159,681 (+3.0% in a year). Huntington-Ashland, WV-KY-OH metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$462 (+123%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $4,702 +3%
- $154,980$159,681 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $36,653 +30%
- $123,028$159,681 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.
- Salt Rock$838
- West Virginia$927
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 13 years.
Typical home values in Salt Rock, WV rose 3.0% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Salt Rock, Cabell County, West Virginia
Salt Rock, in Cabell County, had 373 people in the 2020 census. Unemployment in Cabell County was 3.8% in August 2026, and the county had 0.5% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Cabell County work in schools and health care, then shops.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Salt Rock is a very small community in Cabell County, West Virginia, with a population that would fit comfortably in a single church hall. Typical home values here sit well within reach of many buyers, and household incomes across Cabell County are modest. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month and a fair amount of snow, while summers turn properly hot in July and rain falls steadily through the year.
Work. Most people here work in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, in restaurants, hotels and entertainment, or in professional and business services. Across Cabell County, the largest workplaces include St. Marys Medical Center, Cabell Huntington Hospital and Marshall University. Unemployment across the county has eased a little compared with a year earlier, though the number of jobs slipped slightly last year.
Things to do. Beech Fork State Park, a protected area for outdoor recreation, is a short drive away, as are the Mud River and Davis Creek for time near the water. Ona Speedway, a race track, is also a short drive. For a day out, the Huntington Museum of Art is a longer drive away.
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What people in Cabell County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Cabell County had 51,765 jobs in 2025, 0.5% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 44° and lows near 23°; warmest in July, with highs near 88° and lows near 64°. About 18 inches of snow and 48 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Hamlin weather station, 6 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Cabell County
- St. Marys Medical CenterGeneral hospital2,765FTE
- Cabell Huntington HospitalGeneral hospital2,556FTE
- Marshall UniversityUniversity or college2,035
- Cabell County SchoolsSchool district1,769FTE
- Choice Care At HomeActivity centers for disabled persons, the elderly, and persons diagnosed with intellectual and developmental disabilities719
- Special MetalsBar, nonferrous metals, made from purchased metals in wire drawing plants or in integrated secondary smelting and rolling, drawing, or extruding plants705
- Steel of West VirginiaSteel manufacturing610
- Alcon ResearchSurgical supplies manufacturing570
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 97 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 20,371 people in all across the county; Salt Rock has none of its own. Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023), colleges from IPEDS (NCES, 2023–24) and school districts from the Common Core of Data (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
- Heat wavesRelatively high
- LandslidesRelatively moderate
- WildfireRelatively moderate
- Ice stormsRelatively 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 Salt Rock’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 Cabell County and the Huntington-Ashland, WV-KY-OH metro.
Salt Rock home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Salt Rock$159,681
- 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.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a Salt Rock address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Salt Rock — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.