Weston, West Virginia.
Typical home $122,846 (-2.6% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$296 (+85%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $3,285 -3%
- $126,131$122,846 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $9,352 +8%
- $113,494$122,846 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.
- Weston$645
- West Virginia$927
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 44 years.
Typical home values in Weston, WV fell 2.6% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Weston, Lewis County, West Virginia
Weston is a city of 3,952 people in Lewis County. Half its households earn more than $52,070 a year and half less, against $56,477 across Lewis County; 23% of its people live below the poverty line. 53% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 47% are rented. Unemployment in Lewis County was 4.6% in August 2026, and the county had 0.3% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in shops, then schools and health care.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Weston is a small city and the seat of Lewis County in central West Virginia. Household incomes here run below the county's, and more people live below the poverty line than is typical, while owners and renters share the town's homes about equally, with owners slightly ahead. A four-year degree is less common among adults than across much of the country, and winters are cold, with summers that turn warm in July.
Work. Residents work mostly in shops, in schools, hospitals and social care, and in restaurants, hotels and entertainment, with some in transport, warehouses and utilities. Stonewall Jackson Memorial Hospital and Lewis County Schools are among the largest workplaces in town. Most people travel a short way to work, and very few work from home, and the county has seen a slight dip in jobs over the past year.
Things to do. Stonewall Jackson Lake sits in or beside town, and Stonewall Jackson Lake State Park is a short drive away for time on the water and outdoors. The Museum of American Glass in West Virginia is also in or beside town, and Jackson's Mill, a museum, is a short drive off.
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- 1,621households
- 14%of adults have a degree
- 23%below the poverty line
- 20 mintypical commute
- 1%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Lewis County had 5,726 jobs in 2025, 0.3% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 40° and lows near 22°; warmest in July, with highs near 85° and lows near 63°.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Weston weather station, under a mile away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Weston
- Stonewall Jackson Memorial HospitalHospitals, general medical and surgical429
- Lewis County SchoolsSchool district358FTE
- WestonMail and parcel delivery21
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 2 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 450 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
- LightningRelatively high
- DroughtRelatively moderate
- HailRelatively moderate
- Winter weatherRelatively moderate
- Cold wavesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Weston’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 Lewis County.
Weston home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Weston$122,846
- West Virginia$176,576
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 3 Weston 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.
- Weston31.15%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Weston40
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Weston10
Zip codes with a Weston address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Weston — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.
Zip codes in Weston
| Zip activate to sort by Zip | Place activate to sort by Place | Population sorted descending, activate to sort ascending | Rent activate to sort by Rent | Home value activate to sort by Home value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 26452 | Weston | 9,220 | — | $108,716 |
| 26372 | Horner | 635 | — | $200,503 |