Washington, West Virginia.
Typical home $220,775 (+1.4% in a year). Parkersburg-Vienna, WV metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$605 (+109%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $2,973 +1%
- $217,802$220,775 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $46,260 +27%
- $174,515$220,775 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.
- Washington$1,159
- 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 Washington, WV rose 1.4% over the past year — in step with the nation.
Living in Washington, Wood County, West Virginia
Washington, in Wood County, had 1,151 people in the 2020 census. Unemployment in Wood County was 4.1% in August 2026, and the county had 1.1% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Wood 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Washington is a small community in Wood County, West Virginia, home to a small number of people. Typical home values here sit at a level many homeowners would find within reach, and fewer people live below the poverty line than in many American communities. Household incomes across Wood County are modest, in line with much of the state.
Work. Residents of Washington work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with shops, manufacturing and government close behind. Across Wood County, some of the largest workplaces are Camden Clark Memorial Hospital, Wood County Schools and the Bureau of the Fiscal Service. The job market has softened a little, with slightly fewer jobs across the county last year than the year before, though unemployment has eased compared with a year ago.
Things to do. Blennerhassett Island Historical State Park, a protected area, is in or beside town. The Little Hocking River also runs in or beside town, and the Hocking River is a short drive away. Winters are cold, with some snow, and summers turn warm, with a fair amount of rain and melted snow through the year.
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- 7%below the poverty line
What people in Wood County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Wood County had 35,119 jobs in 2025, 1.1% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 40° and lows near 24°; warmest in July, with highs near 87° and lows near 66°. About 11 inches of snow and 44 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Parkersburg weather station, 6 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Wood County
- Camden Clark Memorial HospitalHospitals, general medical and surgical1,756
- Wood County SchoolsSchool district1,691FTE
- Bureau of the Fiscal ServiceFederal government · Department of the Treasury1,072
- The Chemours Company FC, LLC - Washington WorksTint and dye preparations, household-type, manufacturing507
- Hino Motors Manufacturing USAAssembly plants, heavy trucks, and buses on chassis of own manufacture480
- Celanese Washington WorksNylon resins manufacturing419
- Wincore Window CompanyScreening, window, plastics, manufacturing412
- Departmental OfficesFederal government · Department of the Treasury377
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 74 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 8,870 people in all across the county; Washington 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
- Ice stormsRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Washington’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively moderate. 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 Wood County and the Parkersburg-Vienna, WV metro.
Washington home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Washington$220,775
- West Virginia$176,576
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 5 Washington listings — the market is roughly in balance.
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
Share of listings with a price cut
The early-warning dial: sellers cut when buyers stop reaching. Rising cuts cool a market months before prices notice.
- Washington20.25%
- United States25.56%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Washington20
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a Washington address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Washington — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.