The story of this market
The typical home in Braxton County, West Virginia sells for about $145,801.
Prices are down 2.8% from a year ago, which gives buyers more room to negotiate. 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 High.
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
$1,303
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
93
Relatively High
FEMA National Risk Index. Each spoke is a hazard ranked nationally, where 100 is the most exposed. Expected annual loss: $8,781,222.
Mortgage activity
Home lending in this county
68.8%
2018 approval rate
| Year | Applications | Loans made | Approval | Investor share | Median home value |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | 242 | 123 | 68.8% | 15% | $135,000 |
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 Approval rate is approved ÷ decided (withdrawn and incomplete files excluded).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.
Braxton County, West Virginia
The Braxton County housing market is currently experiencing a slight decline in home values, with a year-over-year decrease of 2.8%. The area is characterized by a stable, aging population and a relatively low unemployment rate, though economic growth remains modest.
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.
Select a city to expand its ZIP intel reports beneath · 4 cities · 4 ZIP reports
Median prices moved down 1.2% year over year.
Homes spend a median of 98 days on market with 6.1 months of supply — a slower-moving market.
14% of listings have cut prices · homes sell at 97.36% of asking — demand is running ahead of supply.
no recorded foreclosure-ledger notices (0.0 per 10,000 residents) · unemployment 3.3% · poverty 20.4% — a stable, low-distress profile.
Deterministic aggregate of 4 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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researched Sep 26
| 26601 | Sutton | $320,000 | $145 | -5.4% | 88 | 100% | 12% | 5.2 | 42 | $549 | researched Oct 1 |
| 26621 | Flatwoods | $141,000 | $98 | -2.1% | 112 | 94.5% | 12% | 8 | 24 | $713 | researched Oct 1 |
| 26623 | Frametown | $172,000 | $108 | +2.4% | 142 | 94.5% | 8.3% | 6 | 12 | $850 | researched Oct 1 |
| 26624 | Gassaway | $125,000 | $85 | +2.4% | 92 | 96.5% | 18% | 6.2 | 45 | $496 | researched Sep 26 |
Figures are each ZIP report's own latest research — the county roll-up aggregates them sales_count-weighted (population fallback); ZIPs cycle quarterly.
The local economy is supported by government and private goods-producing industries, with a 3.3% unemployment rate as of 2026.
- Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum4.726.8 mi
- Stonewall Resort4.421.1 mi
- Holly River State Park4.820 mi
- Cedar Creek State Park4.714.5 mi
- Holly-Gray Park4.43.8 mi
- Elk Theatre4.72.7 mi
- Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum4.726.8 mi
- Flatwoods Monster Museum4.62.7 mi
- The West Virginia Bigfoot Museum4.62.7 mi
- The Museum Of American Glass in West Virginia4.727 mi
- Mountaineer Military Museum4.827.1 mi
- Holly River State Park4.820 mi
- Cedar Creek State Park4.714.5 mi
- Holly-Gray Park4.43.8 mi
- Sutton Lake Marina4.53.8 mi
- Burnsville Docks4.811.2 mi
- The Marina at Stonewall Resort4.520.6 mi
- Flatwoods Center4.12.9 mi
Theme parks, venues, golf, airports, museums, water and shopping across the area from Google Maps, ranked by popularity within the radius shown.
Data sourced from US Census Bureau QuickFacts and Census Reporter.