Williamstown, West Virginia.
Typical home $220,047 (+3.8% in a year). Parkersburg-Vienna, WV metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$604 (+110%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $7,974 +4%
- $212,073$220,047 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $48,130 +28%
- $171,917$220,047 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.
- Williamstown$1,155
- West Virginia$927
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 14 years.
Typical home values in Williamstown, WV rose 3.8% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Williamstown, Wood County, West Virginia
Williamstown is a city of 2,997 people in Wood County. Half its households earn more than $89,013 a year and half less, against $57,810 across Wood County; 5% of its people live below the poverty line. 90% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 10% are rented. 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 residents work in schools and health care, then construction.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Williamstown is a small city on the Ohio River, and it is a place where most homes are lived in by their owners, well above what is typical elsewhere. Residents tend to be older than in most communities, and household incomes run well above the county's, with few people living below the poverty line. Winters are cold, with highs near freezing in January, and summers are warm, with a modest amount of snow and a fair amount of rain through the year.
Work. Residents work mainly in schools, hospitals and social care, the building trades, shops and manufacturing. Across Wood County, some of the largest workplaces are Camden Clark Memorial Hospital, Wood County Schools and the Bureau of the Fiscal Service. A good share of adults hold a four-year degree, the typical trip to work is fairly short, and a small number of people work from home.
Things to do. The Muskingum River runs in or beside town, and Duck Creek is close by as well, which makes the waterside easy to reach. History is close at hand too: Marietta Earthworks, an archaeological site, and the Campus Martius Museum are both in or beside town. Blennerhassett Island Historical State Park, a protected area, is a longer drive away.
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- 1,408households
- 44%of adults have a degree
- 5%below the poverty line
- 19 mintypical commute
- 10%work from home
What residents 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 23°; warmest in July, with highs near 85° and lows near 65°. About 16 inches of snow and 45 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Marietta Wwtp weather station, a mile 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; Williamstown has one 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
- 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 Williamstown’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively low. 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.
Williamstown home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Williamstown$220,047
- West Virginia$176,576
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 4 Williamstown 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.
- Williamstown27.61%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Williamstown22
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Williamstown8
Zip codes with a Williamstown address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Williamstown — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.