The story of this market
The typical home in Gilmer County, West Virginia sells for about $109,000, or $109 per square foot.
Prices are down 47.83% from a year ago, which gives buyers more room to negotiate. Homes take about 120 days to sell, which is slow. 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 Very Low.
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
$1,273
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
74
Very Low
FEMA National Risk Index. Each spoke is a hazard ranked nationally, where 100 is the most exposed. Expected annual loss: $5,928,005.
Mortgage activity
Home lending in this county
68.6%
2018 approval rate
| Year | Applications | Loans made | Approval | Investor share | Median home value |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | 67 | 35 | 68.6% | 14.3% | $155,000 |
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 Approval rate is approved ÷ decided (withdrawn and incomplete files excluded).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.
Gilmer County, West Virginia
Gilmer County's housing market is currently defined by low inventory and limited transaction volume. The market shows significant volatility in year-over-year metrics, likely driven by the small sample size of active listings.
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 sideways 0.0% year over year.
Homes spend a median of 0 days on market with 0.0 months of supply — a fast-moving market.
0% of listings have cut prices · homes sell at 0.15% of asking — demand is holding steady.
no recorded foreclosure-ledger notices (0.0 per 10,000 residents) · unemployment 0.0% · poverty 19.0% — 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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| 26342 | Coxs Mills | $135,000 | $88 | +3.8% | 62 | 96.5% | 12% | 4.2 | 14 | $850 | researched Sep 26 |
| 26351 | Glenville | $169,000 | $91 | — | — | — | — | — | 14 | $891 | researched Sep 26 |
| 26430 | Sand Fork | $125,000 | $78 | -2.1% | 84 | 96.5% | 15% | 6.2 | 12 | $659 | researched Sep 26 |
| 26638 | Shock | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 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 rental market is characterized as relatively tight with very limited active inventory.
- Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum4.722.1 mi
- Stonewall Resort4.419.5 mi
- WVU Jackson's Mill4.724.1 mi
- Stonewall State Park4.519.2 mi
- Cedar Creek State Park4.72.8 mi
- Holly-Gray Park4.419.6 mi
- Calhoun County Park4.613.6 mi
- Elk Theatre4.719.3 mi
- Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum4.722.1 mi
- Flatwoods Monster Museum4.619.3 mi
- WVU Jackson's Mill4.724.1 mi
- The West Virginia Bigfoot Museum4.619.4 mi
- The Museum Of American Glass in West Virginia4.722.4 mi
- Stonewall State Park4.519.2 mi
- Cedar Creek State Park4.72.8 mi
- Holly-Gray Park4.419.6 mi
- Calhoun County Park4.613.6 mi
- Sutton Lake Marina4.520.4 mi
- Burnsville Docks4.813.8 mi
- The Marina at Stonewall Resort4.519.5 mi
- Stonewall Resort4.419.5 mi
- Flatwoods Center4.118 mi
Theme parks, venues, golf, airports, museums, water and shopping across the area ranked by popularity within the radius shown.
Data retrieved from U.S. Census Bureau QuickFacts and Census Reporter.