Sumerco, West Virginia.
Typical home $121,566 (-8.7% in a year). Charleston, WV metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$283 (+80%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $11,528 -9%
- $133,093$121,566 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $4,896 +4%
- $116,670$121,566 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.
- Sumerco$638
- West Virginia$927
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 84 years.
Typical home values in Sumerco, WV fell 8.7% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Sumerco, Lincoln County, West Virginia
The Census does not count Sumerco on its own, so the figures here are Lincoln County's. Half the county's households earn more than $46,205 a year and half less; 23% of the county's people live below the poverty line. 74% of the county's homes are lived in by their owners and 26% are rented. Unemployment in Lincoln County was 4.7% in August 2026, and the county had 7.6% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Lincoln County work in schools and health care, then shops.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Sumerco is a small community in Lincoln County, in the hills of southern West Virginia. Across Lincoln County, most homes are lived in by their owners, and home values sit well below the national norm. Residents tend to be older than the national typical, and incomes and poverty rates are both harder on households than across the country.
Work. Many people in the area work in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, in professional and business services, and in government. Job numbers in Lincoln County grew over the past year, and unemployment has eased compared with a year earlier. Relatively few adults hold a college degree, and commutes run on the longer side of ordinary.
Things to do. A river a longer drive away, the Elk River, offers a quieter place to spend an afternoon near the water. Closer by, the Hilbert Wildlife Management Area is a protected area a short drive from town, good for walking and looking for wildlife. The Brier Creek, also a short drive off, suits people who enjoy a stream close to home.
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- 7,673households
- 44.1median age
- 8%of adults have a degree
- 23%below the poverty line
- 34 mintypical commute
- 8%work from home
What people in Lincoln County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Lincoln County had 2,608 jobs in 2025, 7.6% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 45° and lows near 25°; warmest in July, with highs near 87° and lows near 65°. About 17 inches of snow and 50 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Madison 3NNW weather station, 8 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Lincoln County
- Lincoln County SchoolsSchool district477FTE
- Choice Care At Home - CharlestonActivity centers for disabled persons, the elderly, and persons diagnosed with intellectual and developmental disabilities230
- Wvnh EMPNursing care facilities75
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 2 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 305 people in all. School districts come 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
- LandslidesRelatively moderate
- Inland floodingRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms across Lincoln County, 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 Lincoln County and the Charleston, WV metro.
Sumerco home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Sumerco$121,566
- 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 Sumerco address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Sumerco — 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.