The story of this market
The typical home in Boone County, West Virginia sells for about $90,340, or $181 per square foot.
Prices are down 3.3% from a year ago, which gives buyers more room to negotiate. Over the long run, values in this county have grown 6% since 2009. The biggest natural hazard here is riverine flooding, 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.
Price climate
Every year of price change, 2009–2025
0%
2025
Each stripe is one year's median price change across the area's census tracts (FHFA repeat-sales index). Deep blue is a strong gain year, red a falling year. Best: 2022 (+19.8%). Worst: 2019 (-14.1%). Hover to read a year.
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
$1,251
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.
Neighborhood price trend
Long-run price trend, 2009–2025
0%
2025 change
FHFA repeat-sales index, median of 1 census tracts in this county (2009 = 100). Bars are each year's median change.
Natural hazard exposure
The area's risk shape
87
Relatively Moderate
FEMA National Risk Index. Each spoke is a hazard ranked nationally, where 100 is the most exposed. Expected annual loss: $18,959,772.
Mortgage activity
Home lending in this county
54.6%
2018 approval rate
| Year | Applications | Loans made | Approval | Investor share | Median home value |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | 434 | 170 | 54.6% | 0% | $125,000 |
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 Approval rate is approved ÷ decided (withdrawn and incomplete files excluded).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.
Boone County, West Virginia
The Boone County housing market is experiencing a decline in average home values, which fell 3.3% year-over-year as of May 2026. The population continues to contract, and the market remains characterized by low inventory and limited transaction volume.
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 down 3.3% year over year.
Awaiting this reading — not graded.
0% of listings have cut prices · homes sell at 0% of asking — demand is holding steady.
no recorded foreclosure-ledger notices (0.0 per 10,000 residents) · unemployment 4.6% · poverty 16.2% — a stable, low-distress profile.
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.
No researched ZIP reports yet — ZIP discovery runs with the county's first refresh, and each ZIP's intel report appears here once its research lands.
Development is currently focused on infrastructure improvements, such as the new road construction at the Rock Creek Development Park.
The local economy is influenced by industrial development projects and maintains an unemployment rate of 4.6% as of May 2026.
The amenity base that shapes daily life and property demand in this county — what residents actually live with, and what the pipeline is adding.
Data retrieved from Census Bureau QuickFacts and Data Commons.