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Weirton, WV
Income-focused buyers willing to underwrite flood exposure and thin demand should investigate Weirton; buyers who require job-led growth or quick resale should avoid it.
Median price$137k
Median rent$781
Gross yield6.9%
Job growth▲ 0.1%
Composite Market ScoreRank #43 of 571 scored US market areas
Direct rental answer
How much is rent in Weirton, WV?
Zillow's metro-wide Observed Rent Index is $781 per month for 2026-06-30. That is up 8.28% from a year earlier.
Occupied rental units paying rent
Two-bedroom standard
These figures are not averaged together. Zillow and Realtor describe asking-rent markets, ACS measures rent paid by surveyed households, and HUD publishes administrative bedroom standards.
Exact county schedules
HUD rent benchmarks inside Weirton
Every row keeps its own county FIPS schedule. No county is selected as a metro proxy and no synthetic metro FMR is calculated.
| County | Studio | 1 BR | 2 BR | 3 BR | 4 BR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jefferson County, OHFIPS 39081 | $752 | $757 | $973 | $1,285 | $1,482 |
| Hancock County, WVFIPS 54029 | $752 | $757 | $973 | $1,285 | $1,482 |
| Brooke County, WVFIPS 54009 | $752 | $757 | $973 | $1,285 | $1,482 |
The read
Why this market scores where it does
Income-focused buyers willing to underwrite flood exposure and thin demand should investigate Weirton; buyers who require job-led growth or quick resale should avoid it. The $136,572 median home value, $781 median asking rent, and 6.86% gross yield establish a plausible income case, but not a broad growth case.
The opportunity is the combination of rent momentum, affordability, and limited building. Asking rent rose 8.28% year over year while home values rose 4.3%; the 2.32 price-to-income ratio keeps entry pricing grounded. The record shows only 18 permits and 3.4 months of for-sale supply, pairing low construction with a need for resale discipline.
The risk is demand depth and execution. CES jobs rose just 0.07%, net migration was -38 households, and homes took 60 days to sell; price drops affected 26.56% of listings. Those signals weaken the exit case, while inland flood is the dominant hazard. Proceed only after property-level flood, insurance, rent, and resale checks.
Frequently Asked Investor Questions
What do the current price and rent imply for income?
The $781 monthly asking rent on a $136,572 median home value corresponds to the published 6.86% gross yield.
What does the record show about resale conditions?
Median time on market is 60 days, 26.56% of listings have price drops, and months of supply is 3.4.
What does migration show?
Tax filings show 1,798 households moved in and 1,836 moved out, for net migration of -38; incoming movers’ average income was $50,364 versus $48,397 for outgoing movers, a $1,967 gap.
Investor Quick Takeaways
Gross Yield: 6.9%
Computed from the current Zillow rent and home-value medians.
Rent Momentum: ▲ 8.28%
Zillow ZORI rent growth trend over trailing 12 months.
Investor Activity: 7.2%
Originated investment purchase share (CFPB HMDA).
Climate Exposure: FEMA NRI
Annualized loss ratio evaluated for flood & hurricane risk.
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Market pulse
The current market in eight signals
Fast-moving Redfin conditions sit beside the slower fundamentals so a buyer can separate today's negotiating climate from the long-run investment case.
Months of supply3.4 mo.▼ from 3.8 mo. a year ago
Median days on market60 days▲ from 57 days a year ago
Listings with price drops26.6%▲ from 21.9% a year ago
Sale-to-list ratio94.4%2026-05-01
Home value growth▲ 4.3%Zillow ZHVI · trailing 12 months
Rent growth▲ 8.28%Zillow ZORI · trailing 12 months
Gross rental yield6.9%Rent × 12 ÷ price
Payroll job growth▲ 0.1%CES · 12m to 2026-06
Release-to-release evidence
What actually changed
This comparison exists because at least one underlying source period advanced. Rebuilding the same data never creates a new observation.
Published score held steady70→70
0 ptsThe published component scores did not move in this release.
Weights were unchanged at metro-2026-07-v2-omb2023, so the movement comes from refreshed evidence and percentile ranks.
The named source periods advanced, but the measured values on this page held steady.
Composite breakdown
What each component measures
Weights are published, not hidden, and the arithmetic is shown. Five components, each measured as a national percentile across all tracked metros.
Published arithmeticComponent × weight = points
70| Signal | Score | Weight | Points |
|---|---|---|---|
| Job growth | 46 | 30% | 13.80 |
| Rent trend | 93 | 25% | 23.25 |
| Affordability | 97 | 15% | 14.55 |
| Supply pressure | 89 | 15% | 13.35 |
| Climate risk | 36 | 15% | 5.40 |
| Published score | 70 | ||
Weirton, WV scoreRank #43
70Job growth46/100
Job: CES employment growth of 0.07% year over year -> labor-market support for additional rental demand is nearly flat.
Rent trend93/100
Rent: Asking rent growth of 8.28% and a 6.86% gross yield -> current rent performance supports the income case.
Affordability97/100
Afford: A 2.32 price-to-income ratio and 15.94% rent-to-income ratio -> purchase and tenant payment burdens are restrained on the published measures.
Supply pressure89/100
Supply: 18 permits and 3.4 months of supply -> new construction is limited, but resale conditions still require scrutiny.
Climate risk36/100
Climate: Inland flood is the dominant hazard and the climate loss ratio is 0.1654% -> water exposure and insurance terms require property-level review.
The numbers
What this market costs and what it earns
Every derived ratio below recomputes from the same source record used by the article and score.
ZHVI Median Price
$137k
YoY ▲ 4.3%
ZORI Median Rent
$781
YoY ▲ 8.28%
Gross Rental Yield
6.9%
Rent × 12 ÷ price
$781 × 12 ÷ $136,572
Job Growth (YoY)
▲ 0.1%
CES payrolls
Job signal 46/100
Median Household Income
$59k
Census ACS 5-year
Rent Burden
15.9%
Annual rent ÷ household income
Price-to-Income
2.3x
Median value ÷ household income
HUD 2BR Fair Market Rent
$973
Market rent 80.3% of FMR
Historical affordability context
Compare aligned 2019 and 2024 asking-rent and nominal household-income endpoints across the direct-overlap metro set.
Independent rent evidence
One market, several legitimate rent benchmarks
These releases observe different homes and different moments. RentMarker keeps them separate: ZORI remains the scoring baseline, while the other sources test how sensitive the market story is to bedroom mix and measurement method.
Monthly benchmark4 of 4 reported values
Zero-based scale$781Primary RentMarker baseline
2026-06-30
All homes and bedroom counts
A smoothed metro rent index for observed rentals; it is the primary rent used by RentMarker scores and career ratios.
View source release ↗$757−$24 vs ZORI
FY2026 FMR
One-bedroom standard
An administrative gross-rent benchmark used by HUD programs; it is neither a listing median nor a prediction of one lease.
View source release ↗$973+$192 vs ZORI
FY2026 FMR
Two-bedroom standard
An administrative gross-rent benchmark used by HUD programs; it is neither a listing median nor a prediction of one lease.
View source release ↗$785+$4 vs ZORI
ACS 2024 5-year
Occupied rental units paying rent
A five-year survey estimate of contract rent plus applicable tenant-paid utilities; it is not a current asking-rent index.
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Regional price level
What feels expensive inside Weirton
BEA compares each category with the United States, which equals 100. This is a 2024 price-level comparison—not annual inflation.
BEA Regional Price Parities · 2024US = 100
Occupation wage lens
How asking rent sits against major local occupations
Annualized Zillow asking rent is divided by each BLS annual median wage. This is a screening ratio for one wage, not a household budget or affordability verdict.
Six largest published major groupsannual rent ÷ median wage
Transportation and Material Moving Occupations$44,290 median wage
21.2%
Office and Administrative Support Occupations$41,300 median wage
22.7%
Food Preparation and Serving Related Occupations$28,290 median wage
33.1%
Healthcare Practitioners and Technical Occupations$76,320 median wage
12.3%
Sales and Related Occupations$29,660 median wage
31.6%
Educational Instruction and Library Occupations$58,000 median wage
16.2%
Supply pipeline
What is being built, and for whom
Permits are the 12-to-24 month early warning. The total matters less than the mix: apartments compete with a rental the day they open.
National supply context
Compare this authorization pipeline with asking-rent growth, jobs and for-sale liquidity across the evidence-complete metro set.
Building permits by structure type
units per year · latest year annualised
14 units authorised in 2026, 0% of them in 5+ unit buildings. This is a single-family building cycle, so the competition is other houses, not new apartments. ✓ recomputed from series
Who is arriving, and who is buying
Demand, and the competition for it
Tax filings say how many households moved and what they earn; mortgage disclosures say how many local purchases went to someone who will not live there. Moves between counties inside this metro are netted out of both flow figures.
Net Household Move
−38
1,798 in vs 1,836 out (IRS SOI)
▼ 2.1% of arriving households
Mover Income Gap
+$1,967
Arriving $50,364 vs leaving $48,397
Average AGI per tax return (IRS SOI)
Investor Purchase Share
7.2%
63 of 877 originated purchase loans
CFPB HMDA 2024
Dominant Hazard
inland flooding
0.165% building value annual loss ratio
FEMA NRI · risk type: water
Compare yield and FEMA exposure →Households arrive mainly from: Allegheny County · Belmont County · Columbiana County · Washington County · Ohio County
✓ 1,798 in − 1,836 out = -38 netDirect market links
Where tax-return households moved from and to
These are the largest flows where both counties map to a RentMarker market area. They are a documented subset of the all-US IRS totals above.
Leading inbound markets
- Pittsburgh, PA276 arriving
- Wheeling, WV191 arriving
- Salem, OH120 arriving
Leading outbound markets
- Pittsburgh, PA259 leaving
- Wheeling, WV216 leaving
- Salem, OH124 leaving
The other side
What would make this a bad buy
Generated from the same figures with the instruction to argue against the score, and published unedited. A page that only agrees with itself is an advertisement.
Three ways the case breaks
- CES job growth is nearly flat, leaving little measured employment momentum to deepen rental demand.
- More households moved out than moved in, so migration did not add households on net.
- Inland flood is the dominant hazard, creating property-level water-loss and insurance uncertainty.
Inside this metro area
Move from the market-area average to local evidence
Use the available county and city pages to add local price, rent, housing, migration and hazard context to the market-area view.
Statistical peers
Market areas that behave like Weirton
Nearest neighbours on price level, income, yield and job growth — not on geography. Every market page gets a different peer set, which is the point.
| Market area | Score | Price | Rent | Yield | Job Growth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weirton, WV (Target) | 70 | $137k | $781 | 6.9% | ▲ 0.1% |
| Muncie, IN | 67 | $174k | $979 | 6.8% | ▼ 0.3% |
| Jamestown, NY | 70 | $182k | $972 | 6.4% | ▲ 0.2% |
| Gadsden, AL | 46 | $189k | $1,137 | 7.2% | ▼ 0.1% |
| Altoona, PA | 73 | $180k | $1,117 | 7.4% | ▼ 0.1% |
Provenance
Where every figure came from
“Checked nightly” means every source is re-pulled and re-verified each night. It does not mean every source moves nightly — the release column tells you how fresh each number can possibly be.
| Dataset Source | Method | Release Period | Pulled Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Census ACS 5-year — household income and gross rent | direct | ACS 2024 5-year | 2026-08-05 |
| Census ACS 5-year — historical household income | direct | ACS 2019 and 2024 5-year | 2026-08-05 |
| Census ACS 5-year — population | direct | ACS 2024 5-year | 2026-07-26 |
| Apartment List Rent Estimates — recent-lease rent index | direct | Apartment List 2026-07 | 2026-08-08 |
| Apartment List Time on Market — listing liquidity | direct | Apartment List 2026-07 | 2026-08-08 |
| Apartment List Vacancy Index — rental vacancy | direct | Apartment List 2026-07 | 2026-08-08 |
| BEA County Personal Income — income and population | direct | 2024 County Personal Income (released 2026-02-05); history 1969-2024 | 2026-08-03 |
| BEA Regional Price Parities — metropolitan price levels | direct | 2024 Regional Price Parities (released 2026-02-19); history 2008-2024 | 2026-08-03 |
| BLS CES — payroll employment | direct | CES SM current | 2026-07-26 |
| BLS LAUS — resident employment | direct | LAUS current | 2026-07-26 |
| BLS OEWS — occupation employment and wages | direct | May 2025 OEWS estimates (released 2026-05-15) | 2026-08-03 |
| BLS QCEW — county employment and wages | direct | annual county employment and wages 2021-2025; latest 2025 vs 2024 | 2026-08-02 |
| OMB/BLS delineation — metro geography | direct | OMB July 2023 delineation | 2026-07-30 |
| Census Building Permits Survey — permitted units | direct | BPS through 2026 | 2026-07-26 |
| Census ACS 5-year — city population, households and housing | direct | ACS 2024 5-year | 2026-07-29 |
| Census ACS 5-year — county housing value, tenure and stock | direct | ACS 2024 5-year | 2026-07-30 |
| Census ACS 5-year — cities and communities | direct | ACS 2024 5-year | 2026-07-30 |
| Census ACS five-year — ZCTA housing and income | direct | ACS 2024 5-year ZCTA | 2026-08-08 |
| FEMA National Risk Index — hazard loss ratios | modelled | NRI counties (FEMA ArcGIS) | 2026-07-26 |
| FHFA House Price Index — annual county appreciation | direct | annual county HPI history 1975-2025; latest 2025 | 2026-08-02 |
| HMDA / CFPB — purchases by occupancy type | direct | HMDA 2024 purchase originations | 2026-07-26 |
| HUD CHAS — renter burden by HAMFI income band | direct | HUD CHAS 2018-2022 ACS 5-year (released 2025-12-23) | 2026-08-03 |
| HUD Fair Market Rents — Section 8 standard | direct | FY2026 FMR | 2026-07-26 |
| HUD USPS crosswalk and Small Area FMRs — ZIP rent fallback | direct | ZIP-CBSA 2025Q4 + SAFMR FY2026 | 2026-07-26 |
| HUD-USPS ZIP-to-county residential-address crosswalk | direct | HUD-USPS 2026Q1 | 2026-08-09 |
| IRS SOI — county migration and mover income | direct | SOI migration 2022-2023 | 2026-07-26 |
| Freddie Mac PMMS — mortgage rates | direct | week of 2026-07-30 | 2026-08-06 |
| Census ACS 5-year — effective property tax | direct | ACS 2024 5-year | 2026-08-06 |
| Realtor.com Economic Research — county listing inventory | direct | county inventory 2026-06 | 2026-07-28 |
| Realtor.com Rental Report — top-50 asking rents | direct | top-50 rental asking rents 2026-05 | 2026-08-05 |
| Redfin Data Center — inventory, days on market, and price cuts | direct | metro tracker through 2026-05-01 | 2026-07-26 |
| Redfin Data Center — ZIP resale activity and supply | direct | ZIP rolling 3 months through 2026-06-30; updated 2026-07-03 | 2026-08-12 |
| USDA ERS — Rural-Urban Continuum Codes | direct | USDA ERS 2023 Rural-Urban Continuum Codes | 2026-08-02 |
| Zillow ZHVI and ZORI — county values and rents | direct | county ZHVI/ZORI 2026-06 | 2026-07-26 |
| Zillow ZHVI — metro home values | direct | Metro_zhvi_uc_sfrcondo_tier_0.33_0.67_sm_sa_month.csv | 2026-07-26 |
| Zillow ZHVI — city home values | direct | zillow_zhvi_city.csv | 2026-07-29 |
| Zillow ZORI — metro market rents | direct | Metro_zori_uc_sfrcondomfr_sm_sa_month.csv | 2026-07-26 |
| Zillow ZORI — city market rents | direct | zillow_zori_city.csv | 2026-07-29 |
| Zillow ZORI - metro market rents, not seasonally adjusted | direct | Metro_zori_uc_sfrcondomfr_sm_month.csv | 2026-08-15 |
| Zillow ZORI — ZIP market rents | direct | ZORI ZIP 2026-06 | 2026-08-08 |