Union, West Virginia.
Typical home $194,702 (+3.3% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$606 (+146%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $6,285 +3%
- $188,417$194,702 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $52,038 +36%
- $142,664$194,702 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.
- Union$1,022
- 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 Union, WV rose 3.3% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Union, Monroe County, West Virginia
Union is a town of 419 people in Monroe County. Unemployment in Monroe County was 4.2% in August 2026, and the county had 8.0% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Monroe 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Union is a very small town and the seat of Monroe County, in the hills of southeastern West Virginia. Homes here are modestly priced, and the county's household incomes sit on the lower side. Winters are cold, with a fair amount of snow, and summers are warm without being extreme. Rain and melted snow come through the year.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, with others in manufacturing, restaurants and hotels, and shops. Across Monroe County, the largest workplaces include Monroe County Schools and the federal prison system. Unemployment in the county is lower than it was a year earlier, though the county has fewer jobs than it did the year before.
Things to do. Within a short drive are several streams, including Hardy Run, Rock Camp Creek and Second Creek, all small rivers good for a walk along the water. A longer drive brings you to the Appalachian Trail, a famous long-distance hiking route, and to Greenbrier State Forest, a protected area of woodland. Organ Cave, a tourist attraction, is also a longer drive away.
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- 9%below the poverty line
What people in Monroe County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Monroe County had 1,882 jobs in 2025, 8.0% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 42° and lows near 22°; warmest in July, with highs near 84° and lows near 61°. About 24 inches of snow and 39 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Union Sse weather station, 3 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Monroe County
- Monroe County SchoolsSchool district253FTE
- Bureau of Prisons/federal Prison SystemFederal government · Department of Justice97
- Wvnh EMPNursing care facilities68
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 1 workplace with 20 or more staff, 68 people in all across the county; Union has one 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
- Cold wavesVery high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- LandslidesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Union’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively high. 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 Monroe County.
Union home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Union$194,702
- 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.
- Union11
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a Union address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Union — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.