Williamson, West Virginia.
Typical home $62,381 (-9.7% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$138 (+72%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $6,666 -10%
- $69,047$62,381 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Down $3,799 -6%
- $66,180$62,381 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.
- Williamson$327
- West Virginia$927
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, prices here aren't rising.
Typical home values in Williamson, WV fell 9.7% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Williamson, Mingo County, West Virginia
Williamson is a city of 3,083 people in Mingo County. Half its households earn more than $21,875 a year and half less, against $38,119 across Mingo County; 49% of its people live below the poverty line. Unemployment in Mingo County was 7.6% in August 2026, and the county had 9.8% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Mingo County work in schools and health care, then farming.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Williamson is a small city on the Tug Fork in the southern coalfields of West Virginia, in Mingo County. Household incomes here run well below the county's, and a large share of residents live below the poverty line. Homes are inexpensive compared with most of the country, and few adults hold a four-year degree. Winters are cold, with January highs well short of comfortable and lows below freezing, while July afternoons turn hot. Snowfall is modest, and rain and melted snow add up to a fair amount over the year.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, with others in farming, forestry and mining, in restaurants and hotels, and in shops. Across Mingo County, the largest workplaces include Mingo County Schools, Reeds Home Solutions and Everett Hannah Lumber. Unemployment in the county is a little lower than a year ago, though the county had noticeably fewer jobs last year than the year before. The typical commute is a fairly long one, and some residents work from home.
Things to do. The West Virginia Mine Wars Museum is a short drive away and tells the story of the region's labor history. Miller Creek and Blackberry Creek are both rivers a short drive from town. Farther afield, Chief Logan State Park is a protected area a longer drive away.
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- 1,405households
- 10%of adults have a degree
- 49%below the poverty line
- 27 mintypical commute
- 10%work from home
What people in Mingo County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Mingo County had 4,466 jobs in 2025, 9.8% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 46° and lows near 26°; warmest in July, with highs near 89° and lows near 66°. About 13 inches of snow and 48 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Williamson weather station, under a mile away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Mingo County
- Mingo County SchoolsSchool district561FTE
- Reeds Home SolutionsChimney, concrete, construction40
- Everett Hannah LumberSawed lumber made in sawmills20
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 2 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 60 people in all across the county; Williamson 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
- Strong windRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- WildfireRelatively moderate
- Heat wavesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Williamson’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 Mingo County.
Williamson home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Williamson$62,381
- 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.
Market heat, inside the city limits
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Williamson15
Zip codes with a Williamson address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Williamson — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.
Zillow publishes no zip-level series with this city on the address.