The story of this market
The typical home in Barbour County, West Virginia sells for about $124,483, or $803 per square foot.
Prices are down 2.2% from a year ago, which gives buyers more room to negotiate. The biggest natural hazard here is lightning, which FEMA rates very high. HUD's fair market rent for a two-bedroom is $944 a month.
HUD sets the fair market rent for a 2-bedroom at $944 a month. FEMA's National Risk Index rates overall hazard risk here as Relatively Moderate.
Monthly price momentum
Home values since 2015
+8.9%
WV · past 12 months
Freddie Mac House Price Index, single-family homes, monthly through 2026-08. Each line starts at 100 in January 2015, so a reading of 180 means prices are up 80% since then.
Rent benchmark
Fair market rent by size
$1,216
3-bed / month
HUD Fair Market Rents, fiscal 2027, for this county. A typical rent for a modest unit, used to set housing-voucher payments.
Natural hazard exposure
The area's risk shape
73
Relatively Moderate
FEMA National Risk Index. Each spoke is a hazard ranked nationally, where 100 is the most exposed. Expected annual loss: $7,710,074.
Mortgage activity
Home lending in this county
64.6%
2018 approval rate
| Year | Applications | Loans made | Approval | Investor share | Median home value |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | 224 | 105 | 64.6% | 5% | $140,000 |
CFPB Home Mortgage Disclosure Act records: every mortgage application reported by lenders for homes in this county. Approval rate is approved ÷ decided (withdrawn and incomplete files excluded). Investor share and home value are the median census tract.
Barbour County, West Virginia
The Barbour County housing market is currently experiencing a slight decline in home values, with a year-over-year decrease of 2.2%. The market remains characterized by low population growth and a reliance on the local health care sector for economic stability.
No ARED distress-ledger coverage for this county yet — the foreclosure ingest rotates the national county directory, and filings appear here once the county's posted notices are read. Key-figure check: no independent anchor retained yet — first-researched cycles establish the anchor baseline this pass.
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Median prices moved up 1.9% year over year.
Homes spend a median of 63 days on market with 4.6 months of supply — a balanced-paced market.
14% of listings have cut prices · homes sell at 97.95% of asking — demand is running ahead of supply.
no recorded foreclosure-ledger notices (0.0 per 10,000 residents) · unemployment 0.0% · poverty 20.0% — a stable, low-distress profile.
Deterministic aggregate of 7 researched ZIP reports — sales_count-weighted (population fallback); per point, children lacking the value or its weight are excluded. Tax rates, sentiment and context notes are tier-native and never roll.
No researched properties in this county yet — the property base layer populates as property research runs, and each property feeds its ZIP's roll-up.
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| 26250 | Belington | $102,100 | $78 | +2.4% | 112 | 96.5% | 12% | 6.8 | 42 | $831 | researched Sep 26 |
| 26275 | Junior | $75,000 | $165 | — | 120 | 95% | — | 5 | 5 | $627 | researched Sep 26 |
| 26405 | Moatsville | $365,000 | $185 | +2.5% | 55 | 98.5% | 15% | 4.2 | 501 | $1,300 | researched Sep 26 |
| 26416 | Pennsboro | $132,000 | $85 | +2.1% | 92 | 96.5% | 12% | 6.4 | 48 | $793 | researched Sep 26 |
| 26419 | Pine Grove | $145,000 | $98 | +3.5% | 62 | 96.5% | 12% | 4.2 | 48 | $603 | researched Sep 26 |
| 26434 | Shirley | $180,000 | $145 | -43.8% | 62 | 97.2% | 8.5% | 6 | 12 | $1,150 | researched Oct 1 |
| 26440 | Thornton | $165,000 | $112 | +2.4% | 68 | 96.5% | 12% | 5.2 | 42 | $950 | researched Oct 1 |
Figures are each ZIP report's own latest research — the county roll-up aggregates them sales_count-weighted (population fallback); ZIPs cycle quarterly.
The economy is anchored by health care and social assistance, with limited recent industrial expansion.
The local economy is primarily supported by the health care and social assistance sector, which serves as the largest employer.
Data retrieved from U.S. Census Bureau QuickFacts and Census Reporter.