Thomas, West Virginia.
Typical home $170,115 (+5.9% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$517 (+138%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $9,435 +6%
- $160,681$170,115 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $42,863 +34%
- $127,252$170,115 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.
- Thomas$893
- 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 Thomas, WV rose 5.9% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Thomas, Tucker County, West Virginia
Thomas is a city of 611 people in Tucker County. Half its households earn more than $56,042 a year and half less, against $53,358 across Tucker County. Unemployment in Tucker County was 3.9% in August 2026, and the county had 3.1% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Tucker County work in schools and health care, then construction.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Thomas is a small city in the mountains of Tucker County, West Virginia, and most of the people who live there know one another. Household incomes run a little above the county's, and a typical home costs less than in much of the country. Winters are cold, with a great deal of snow, and summers stay mild and warm, with plenty of rain and melted snow through the year. Relatively few adults hold a four-year degree.
Work. Residents of Thomas work mainly in schools, hospitals and social care, the building trades, manufacturing, and restaurants, hotels and entertainment. Across Tucker County, the largest workplaces include Tucker County Schools, The Clorox Company and Cortland Acres Health and Rehab. Unemployment in the county is a little lower than a year ago, though the county has fewer jobs than it did the year before.
Things to do. Fairfax Stone State Park and the Cottrill Opera House, a theatre, are both in or beside town. A short drive away, Blackwater Falls and Elakala Falls are waterfalls, and Canaan Valley Resort State Park is a protected area for getting outdoors in any season. The Blackwater River is also close by.
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- 20%of adults have a degree
What people in Tucker County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Tucker County had 2,748 jobs in 2025, 3.1% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 32° and lows near 16°; warmest in July, with highs near 75° and lows near 57°. About 170 inches of snow and 63 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Davis 3SE weather station, 5 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Tucker County
- Tucker County SchoolsSchool district171FTE
- The Clorox CompanyCharcoal briquettes, wood, manufacturing95
- Cortland Acres Health and RehabHomes for the elderly with nursing care93
- Hinchcliff AcquisitionsPallet or skid jacks manufacturing33
- Forest ServiceFederal government · Department of Agriculture20
- U.s. Fish and Wildlife ServiceFederal government · Department of the Interior20
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 3 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 221 people in all across the county; Thomas has none of its own. School districts come 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
- LandslidesRelatively moderate
- Winter weatherRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively 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 Thomas’ 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 Tucker County.
Thomas home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Thomas$170,115
- 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.
- Thomas8
Zip codes with a Thomas address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Thomas — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.