Shinnston, West Virginia.
Typical home $135,086 (+2.0% in a year). Clarksburg, WV metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$306 (+76%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $2,685 +2%
- $132,401$135,086 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $8,447 +7%
- $126,639$135,086 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.
- Shinnston$709
- West Virginia$927
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 54 years.
Typical home values in Shinnston, WV rose 2.0% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Shinnston, Harrison County, West Virginia
Shinnston is a city of 2,328 people in Harrison County. Half its households earn more than $69,844 a year and half less, against $60,377 across Harrison County; 12% of its people live below the poverty line. 78% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 22% are rented. Unemployment in Harrison County was 3.5% in August 2026, and the county had 0.9% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in schools and health care, then government.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Shinnston is a small city in Harrison County, West Virginia, where most homes are lived in by their owners and the population is older than in many places. Household incomes run higher than across the county, and homes here are generally modest in price. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month, and summers are warm, with July the warmest. Rain and melted snow add up to a good deal over the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with government, transport and warehouses, and professional and business services also well represented. Across Harrison County, some of the largest workplaces are United Hospital Center, Harrison County Schools and the Veterans Health Administration. Unemployment in the county has been a little lower than a year earlier, and the county has added a few more jobs. A typical commute is a modest one, and few people work from home.
Things to do. Rivers and creeks are close at hand, including the Tygart Valley River and Simpson Creek, both a short drive away. For a longer outing, Valley Falls State Park is a protected area a longer drive away, and Mountaineer Field at Milan Puskar Stadium, a stadium, is also a longer drive away.
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- 900households
- 26%of adults have a degree
- 12%below the poverty line
- 23 mintypical commute
- 8%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Harrison County had 37,414 jobs in 2025, 0.9% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 43° and lows near 25°; warmest in July, with highs near 86° and lows near 64°. About 45 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Clarksburg Benedum Airport weather station, 8 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Harrison County
- United Hospital CenterGeneral hospital1,744FTE
- Harrison County SchoolsSchool district1,523FTE
- Veterans Health AdministrationFederal government · Department of Veterans Affairs1,130
- MHI RJ Aviation Inc. - West Virginia Air CenterAircraft maintenance and repair services500
- Pratt & Whitney Engine Services, Inc. (Plant 81)Repair and maintenance of aircraft engines471
- Applied Construction SolutionsCompressor, metering and pumping station, gas and oil pipeline, construction436
- RDR Utility Services GroupPreparation of oil and gas field drilling sites on a contract basis403
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters378
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 67 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 9,416 people in all across the county; Shinnston has one of its own. Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023), school districts from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24) and federal offices from OPM's federal workforce data (2026); 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
- LightningRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Shinnston’s census tracts, 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 Harrison County and the Clarksburg, WV metro.
Shinnston home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Shinnston$135,086
- 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.
Market heat, inside the city limits
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Shinnston10
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a Shinnston address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Shinnston — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.
Zip codes in Shinnston
| Zip activate to sort by Zip | Place activate to sort by Place | Population sorted descending, activate to sort ascending | Rent activate to sort by Rent | Home value activate to sort by Home value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 26431 | Shinnston | 6,271 | — | $136,852 |
| 26568 | Enterprise | 650 | — | $118,866 |