Springfield, West Virginia.
Typical home $185,546 (+0.9% in a year). Winchester, VA-WV metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$550 (+130%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $1,701 +1%
- $183,845$185,546 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $46,942 +34%
- $138,604$185,546 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.
- Springfield$974
- West Virginia$927
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 12 years.
Typical home values in Springfield, WV rose 0.9% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Springfield, Hampshire County, West Virginia
Springfield, in Hampshire County, had 455 people in the 2020 census. 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 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Springfield is a very small community in Hampshire County, West Virginia, where neighbors are likely to know one another. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month and a good deal of snow, while summers turn warm, with July the warmest. Rain and melted snow fall steadily through the year. Homes here are valued below what the typical American home costs, and few residents live below the poverty line.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, with others in manufacturing, the building trades and government. Across Hampshire County, some of the largest workplaces are Hampshire County Schools, Hampshire Memorial Hospital and Food Lion. Unemployment across the county is a little lower than it was a year ago, and the number of jobs there has barely changed.
Things to do. Springfield Wildlife Management Area is a protected area in or beside town, good for walking and time outdoors. A short drive away is Literary Hall, a museum, along with Big Run, a river. Lake Holiday, a lake, is a longer drive away.
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- 5%below the poverty line
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 40° and lows near 21°; warmest in July, with highs near 86° and lows near 61°. About 29 inches of snow and 38 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Romney Southwest weather station, 8 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 across the county; Springfield 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 floodingRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- LandslidesRelatively 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 Springfield’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively moderate. 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.
Springfield home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Springfield$185,546
- 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 Springfield address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Springfield — 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.