West Hamlin, West Virginia.
Typical home $84,540 (-19.1% in a year). Charleston, WV metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$128 (+41%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $19,981 -19%
- $104,521$84,540 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Down $21,217 -20%
- $105,757$84,540 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.
- West Hamlin$444
- West Virginia$927
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, prices here aren't rising.
Typical home values in West Hamlin, WV fell 19.1% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in West Hamlin, Lincoln County, West Virginia
West Hamlin is a town of 524 people in Lincoln County. Unemployment in Lincoln County was 4.7% in August 2026, and the county had 7.6% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Lincoln 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. West Hamlin is a very small town, home to far fewer people than most places in the country. Homes here cost much less than the typical American home, and household incomes across Lincoln County sit below the national picture. Few adults hold a four-year degree, and winters are cold, with a fair amount of snow, while summers turn properly warm.
Work. Most residents who work do so in schools, hospitals and social care, with shops, professional and business services, and government also common. Across Lincoln County, Lincoln County Schools is among the largest workplaces, along with Choice Care At Home - Charleston. Unemployment across the county has eased compared with a year earlier, and the county has more jobs than it did the year before. Working from home is not common.
Things to do. Beech Fork State Park is a protected area a short drive away, and Davis Creek, also a short drive off, offers a creek to visit. For a longer outing, the Huntington Museum of Art is a museum a longer drive away, and the Guyandotte River is another longer drive.
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- 3%of adults have a degree
- 6%work from home
What people in Lincoln County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Lincoln County had 2,608 jobs in 2025, 7.6% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 44° and lows near 23°; warmest in July, with highs near 88° and lows near 64°. About 18 inches of snow and 48 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Hamlin weather station, 5 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Lincoln County
- Lincoln County SchoolsSchool district477FTE
- Choice Care At Home - CharlestonActivity centers for disabled persons, the elderly, and persons diagnosed with intellectual and developmental disabilities230
- Wvnh EMPNursing care facilities75
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 2 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 305 people in all across the county; West Hamlin has none of its own. 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
- Heat wavesRelatively high
- LandslidesRelatively moderate
- Ice stormsRelatively moderate
- Winter weatherRelatively 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 West Hamlin’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 Lincoln County and the Charleston, WV metro.
West Hamlin home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- West Hamlin$84,540
- 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 West Hamlin address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls West Hamlin — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.