Wellsburg, West Virginia.
Typical home $121,706 (-3.5% in a year). Weirton-Steubenville, WV-OH metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$314 (+97%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $4,358 -3%
- $126,064$121,706 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $12,645 +12%
- $109,061$121,706 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.
- Wellsburg$639
- West Virginia$927
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 32 years.
Typical home values in Wellsburg, WV fell 3.5% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Wellsburg, Brooke County, West Virginia
Wellsburg is a city of 2,450 people in Brooke County. Half its households earn more than $42,868 a year and half less, against $54,316 across Brooke County; 20% of its people live below the poverty line. 80% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 20% are rented. Unemployment in Brooke County was 4.6% in August 2026, and the county had 5.4% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Brooke 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Wellsburg is a small city on the Ohio River in West Virginia's northern panhandle, and most homes here are lived in by their owners. Household incomes run below the county's, and homes are modestly priced. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month, and summers are warm in July, with a fair amount of rain and melted snow through the year.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by shops, restaurants and hotels, and manufacturing. Brooke County Schools, Eagle Manufacturing and Mondi Bags USA are among the largest workplaces in Wellsburg. Few people work from home, and the typical commute is short.
Things to do. A short drive away, Meadowcroft Rockshelter is a museum with deep roots in the region's early history, and Fernwood State Forest offers protected woodland to walk through. Fort Steuben, also a short drive off, is a museum for those who like local history. Creeks and runs, including Cross Creek, run in or beside town.
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- 1,012households
- 17%of adults have a degree
- 20%below the poverty line
- 20 mintypical commute
- 1%work from home
What people in Brooke County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Brooke County had 7,440 jobs in 2025, 5.4% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 36° and lows near 19°; warmest in July, with highs near 83° and lows near 62°. About 43 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Steubenville weather station, 7 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Wellsburg
- Brooke County SchoolsSchool district401FTE
- Eagle ManufacturingIndustrial containers merchant wholesalers204
- Mondi Bags USAPaper sack manufacture115
- Kroger Columbus KMASupermarkets and other grocery except convenience stores71
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 3 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 390 people in all. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (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 floodingVery high
- Strong windRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Wellsburg’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 Brooke County and the Weirton-Steubenville, WV-OH metro.
Wellsburg home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Wellsburg$121,706
- West Virginia$176,576
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 4 Wellsburg 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.
- Wellsburg26.97%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Wellsburg28
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Wellsburg7
Zip codes with a Wellsburg address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Wellsburg — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.