Tunnelton, West Virginia.
Typical home $113,091 (+3.4% in a year). Morgantown, WV metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$340 (+134%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $3,682 +3%
- $109,409$113,091 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $23,768 +27%
- $89,322$113,091 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.
- Tunnelton$594
- West Virginia$927
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 15 years.
Typical home values in Tunnelton, WV rose 3.4% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Tunnelton, Preston County, West Virginia
Tunnelton is a town of 296 people in Preston County. Half its households earn more than $65,565 a year and half less, against $61,880 across Preston County; 8% of its people live below the poverty line. Unemployment in Preston County was 3.9% in August 2026, and the county had 2.2% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Preston 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Tunnelton is a very small town in the hills of Preston County, West Virginia. Household incomes here run a little above the county's, and few adults hold a four-year degree. Homes are among the more affordable you will find in many parts of the country. Winters are cold and snowy, with January the coldest month, and summers are mild to warm, with July the warmest. Rain and melted snow add up to a good deal over the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with shops, the building trades and manufacturing also giving many people their living. Across Preston County, some of the largest workplaces are Preston County Schools, Preston Memorial Hospital and Walmart. Unemployment across the county is lower than it was a year earlier, and the county has gained jobs over the past year.
Things to do. A short drive away, Briery Mountain Wildlife Management Area and Upper Deckers Creek Wildlife Management Area offer protected land for walking and watching wildlife, and the West Virginia Zoo is close enough for an easy outing. For a longer drive, Blackwater Falls is a well-known waterfall, and Deep Creek Lake is a large reservoir popular for time on the water.
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- 3%of adults have a degree
- 8%below the poverty line
What people in Preston County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Preston County had 7,365 jobs in 2025, 2.2% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 38° and lows near 20°; warmest in July, with highs near 82° and lows near 61°. About 57 inches of snow and 57 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Rowlesburg weather station, 5 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Preston County
- Preston County SchoolsSchool district590FTE
- Bureau of Prisons/federal Prison SystemFederal government · Department of Justice329
- Preston Memorial HospitalCritical access hospital297FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters231
- Preston ContractorsSite prep mines230
- BlueRidge Fiber SolutionsSheet metal work manufacturing121
- Wvnh EMPNursing care facilities106
- Mountaineer ContractorsExcavating100
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 13 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,583 people in all across the county; Tunnelton has none of its own. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24), federal offices from OPM's federal workforce data (2026) 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
- LandslidesRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively moderate
- Winter weatherRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Tunnelton’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 Preston County and the Morgantown, WV metro.
Tunnelton home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Tunnelton$113,091
- 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 Tunnelton address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Tunnelton — 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.