Wallace, West Virginia.
Typical home $83,928 (-2.2% in a year). Clarksburg, WV metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$182 (+70%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $1,901 -2%
- $85,829$83,928 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $14 +0%
- $83,914$83,928 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.
- Wallace$441
- West Virginia$927
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, prices here aren't rising.
Typical home values in Wallace, WV fell 2.2% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Wallace, Harrison County, West Virginia
Wallace, in Harrison County, had 201 people in the 2020 census. Unemployment in Harrison County was 3.5% in August 2026, and the county had 0.9% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Harrison County work in schools and health care, then government.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Wallace is a very small community in Harrison County, West Virginia, where neighbors are likely to know one another. Homes here are inexpensive, and household incomes across the county run lower than in much of the country. Very few adults have a four-year degree, and the typical trip to work is a long one.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, in government, in shops and in professional and business services. Across Harrison County, the largest workplaces include United Hospital Center, Harrison County Schools and the Veterans Health Administration. Unemployment in the county is low and a little lower than a year ago, and the number of jobs has edged up.
Things to do. Arches Fork and Simpson Creek are both rivers a short drive away, good for time by the water. A longer drive brings Valley Falls State Park and Watters Smith Memorial State Park, both protected areas, and the Lewis Wetzel Wildlife Management Area is another longer drive for those who like open woods. Winters are cold and the year brings plenty of rain and melted snow, while summers are warm.
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- 5%of adults have a degree
- 56 mintypical commute
What people in Harrison County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Harrison County had 37,414 jobs in 2025, 0.9% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 38° and lows near 19°; warmest in July, with highs near 84° and lows near 60°. About 51 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Mannington Wnw weather station, 10 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Harrison County
- United Hospital CenterGeneral hospital1,744FTE
- Harrison County SchoolsSchool district1,523FTE
- Veterans Health AdministrationFederal government · Department of Veterans Affairs1,130
- MHI RJ Aviation Inc. - West Virginia Air CenterAircraft maintenance and repair services500
- Pratt & Whitney Engine Services, Inc. (Plant 81)Repair and maintenance of aircraft engines471
- Applied Construction SolutionsCompressor, metering and pumping station, gas and oil pipeline, construction436
- RDR Utility Services GroupPreparation of oil and gas field drilling sites on a contract basis403
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters378
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 67 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 9,416 people in all across the county; Wallace has none of its own. Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023), school districts 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
- LandslidesRelatively moderate
- Inland floodingRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Wallace’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 Harrison County and the Clarksburg, WV metro.
Wallace home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Wallace$83,928
- 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 Wallace address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Wallace — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.