Upper Falls, West Virginia.
Typical home $163,192 (+0.1% in a year). Charleston, WV metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$435 (+103%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $129 +0%
- $163,063$163,192 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $30,638 +23%
- $132,555$163,192 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.
- Upper Falls$857
- West Virginia$927
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 17 years.
Typical home values in Upper Falls, WV rose 0.1% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Upper Falls, Kanawha County, West Virginia
The Census does not count Upper Falls on its own, so the figures here are Kanawha County's. Half the county's households earn more than $60,943 a year and half less; 16% of the county's people live below the poverty line. 71% of the county's homes are lived in by their owners and 29% are rented. Unemployment in Kanawha County was 4.0% in August 2026, and the county had 1.9% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Kanawha 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Upper Falls is a town in Kanawha County, West Virginia, where most homes are lived in by their owners. Winters bring cold and snow, summers are hot, and rain falls steadily through much of the year. Campbells Creek runs in or beside the town, and the county's hills and river valleys shape its everyday landscape.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, in professional and business services, and in government. Unemployment has eased over the past year, although the county has seen a slight drop in the number of jobs. Most people still travel to a workplace, and commutes are fairly short.
Things to do. Campbells Creek is a river in or beside town, which makes it easy to reach on foot or by a short walk. Kanawha State Forest, a protected area a short drive away, offers woods and quiet paths. The West Virginia State Museum, also a short drive away, is a museum where visitors can learn about the state's history.
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- 76,459households
- 43.8median age
- 30%of adults have a degree
- 16%below the poverty line
- 22 mintypical commute
- 10%work from home
What people in Kanawha County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Kanawha County had 95,946 jobs in 2025, 1.9% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 44° and lows near 26°; warmest in July, with highs near 86° and lows near 66°. About 32 inches of snow and 46 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Charleston Yeager Airport weather station, 5 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Kanawha County
- Charleston Area Medical CenterGeneral hospital6,949FTE
- CAMC Memorial DivisionGeneral medical and surgical hospitals3,890
- Kanawha County SchoolsSchool district3,592FTE
- Thomas Memorial HospitalGeneral hospital760FTE
- GestampJob stampings, automotive, metal, manufacturing650
- Niterra North AmericaCoils, ignition, internal combustion engines, manufacturing525
- Charleston WV PDCMail and parcel delivery483
- University of CharlestonUniversity or college436
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 157 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 23,318 people in all. Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023), school districts from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24) 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
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- LandslidesRelatively moderate
- Heat wavesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms across Kanawha County, 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 Kanawha County and the Charleston, WV metro.
Upper Falls home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Upper Falls$163,192
- 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 Upper Falls address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Upper Falls — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.