Stanaford, West Virginia.
Typical home $184,783 (+2.0% in a year). Beckley, WV metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$549 (+130%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $3,689 +2%
- $181,094$184,783 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $51,451 +39%
- $133,332$184,783 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.
- Stanaford$970
- West Virginia$927
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 11 years.
Typical home values in Stanaford, WV rose 2.0% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Stanaford, Raleigh County, West Virginia
Stanaford, in Raleigh County, had 1,215 people in the 2020 census. Unemployment in Raleigh County was 4.2% in August 2026, and the county had 0.5% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Raleigh 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Stanaford is a small community in Raleigh County, West Virginia, close enough to Beckley that daily life draws on the larger town nearby. Homes here are priced modestly, and across Raleigh County household incomes sit below what is typical for the country as a whole. Winters are cold and snowy, with January the coldest month, while summers are warm without being hot, and precipitation falls through the year as rain and melted snow.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, with shops, restaurants and hotels, and professional and business services also employing a good share. Across Raleigh County, the largest workplaces include Raleigh County Schools, Raleigh General Hospital and the Veterans Health Administration. Fewer adults here hold a four-year degree than in much of the country, and only a small number of people work from home, so most jobs mean traveling to a workplace. The county has seen slightly fewer jobs than the year before.
Things to do. The Beckley Mill Site, an archaeological site, lies in or beside town. A short drive away are Little Beaver State Park, a protected area for walking and time by the water, and the Phillips-Sprague Mine, a museum about the region's coal history. For a longer outing, New River Gorge National Park and Preserve is a longer drive away and is one of the best known protected areas in the state.
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- 14%of adults have a degree
- 7%work from home
What people in Raleigh County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Raleigh County had 32,153 jobs in 2025, 0.5% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 40° and lows near 24°; warmest in July, with highs near 81° and lows near 62°. About 56 inches of snow and 44 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Beckley Raleigh County Airport weather station, 2 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Raleigh County
- Raleigh County SchoolsSchool district1,537FTE
- Raleigh General HospitalGeneral hospital887FTE
- Veterans Health AdministrationFederal government · Department of Veterans Affairs814
- Beckley ARHGeneral hospital556FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters355
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters314
- West Virginia University Institute of TechnologyUniversity or college238
- Pyramid West Virginia ManagementResort hotels without casinos237
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 50 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 5,446 people in all across the county; Stanaford 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), federal offices from OPM's federal workforce data (2026) 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
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively moderate
- Ice stormsRelatively moderate
- Inland floodingRelatively 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 Stanaford’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 Raleigh County and the Beckley, WV metro.
Stanaford home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Stanaford$184,783
- 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 Stanaford address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Stanaford — 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.