Smithfield, West Virginia.
Typical home $61,095 (-11.1% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$97 (+43%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $7,639 -11%
- $68,734$61,095 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Down $17,744 -23%
- $78,840$61,095 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.
- Smithfield$321
- West Virginia$927
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, prices here aren't rising.
Typical home values in Smithfield, WV fell 11.1% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Smithfield, Wetzel County, West Virginia
Smithfield is a town of 103 people in Wetzel County. Unemployment in Wetzel County was 6.0% in August 2026, and the county had 8.9% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Wetzel County work in schools and health care, then transport and warehouses.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Smithfield is a small town in Wetzel County, in the northern part of West Virginia. Most of its residents know one another, and its quiet streets reflect a place where life moves at an unhurried pace. Winters are cold and snowy, summers are warm, and the area receives a good deal of rain and melted snow over the year.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, or in transport, warehouses and utilities, and some work in manufacturing or local shops. Few adults here hold a four-year degree. Unemployment is a little higher than it was a year earlier, and the number of jobs in the county has fallen over the past year.
Things to do. Arches Fork runs in or beside the town, so the river is close at hand for a walk or a quiet afternoon. The Lewis Wetzel Wildlife Management Area is a protected area a short drive away, and the Tygart Valley River, a longer drive away, offers another river setting.
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- 4%of adults have a degree
What people in Wetzel County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Wetzel County had 4,442 jobs in 2025, 8.9% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 38° and lows near 19°; warmest in July, with highs near 84° and lows near 60°. About 51 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Mannington Wnw weather station, 6 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Wetzel County
- Wetzel County SchoolsSchool district498FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters300
- Wetzel County HospitalGeneral hospital185FTE
- Martinsville SNF OperationsNursing homes110
- Sprouse Building ProductsWindows and window frames, vinyl, manufacturing89
- Riesbeck Food Markets, Inc., New Martinsville StoreDelicatessens primarily retailing a range of grocery items and meats20
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 4 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 519 people in all across the county; Smithfield has none of its own. 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
- Inland floodingVery high
- LightningRelatively high
- LandslidesRelatively moderate
- HailRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively moderate
- Cold wavesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Smithfield’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 Wetzel County.
Smithfield home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Smithfield$61,095
- 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 Smithfield address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Smithfield — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.