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Home appreciation in Parkersburg, WV

Over the five years ending 2025, home prices in Parkersburg, WV grew an average of 6.9% a year.

Price growth at a glance

1-year

+5.4%

2025 over 2024. West Virginia: +5.5%.

5-year, per year

+6.9%

Average annual growth, 2020 to 2025. West Virginia: +7.6%.

10-year, per year

+4.9%

+61.9% in total since 2015. West Virginia: +4.9%.

How does your home compare?

Parkersburg, WV home prices rose 61.9% over the ten years to 2025, while its ZIP codes ranged from +54.1% to +74.5%. Look up your home to see where it ranks among the homes around it.

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How Parkersburg, WV compares with West Virginia

West Virginia averaged +7.6% a year, putting Parkersburg, WV behind the state overall. For five-year price growth, Parkersburg, WV ranks 351st out of 409 metros nationwide and 4th out of 7 in West Virginia.

Index, 2005 = 100

Parkersburg-Vienna, WV and West Virginia, quarterly house price index rebased to 100 in 2005.
YearParkersburg-Vienna, WVWest Virginia
2005 Q1100100
2005 Q2101103
2005 Q3101107
2005 Q499108
2006 Q1101110
2006 Q2103109
2006 Q398111
2006 Q4106112
2007 Q1101113
2007 Q2103112
2007 Q3104113
2007 Q4105113
2008 Q1107114
2008 Q2105113
2008 Q3105111
2008 Q4104110
2009 Q1106112
2009 Q2106111
2009 Q3106108
2009 Q4106108
2010 Q1105108
2010 Q2105108
2010 Q3105108
2010 Q4107109
2011 Q1102107
2011 Q2103105
2011 Q3102107
2011 Q4103108
2012 Q1106107
2012 Q2105107
2012 Q3104107
2012 Q4107108
2013 Q1106108
2013 Q2109108
2013 Q3107109
2013 Q4109110
2014 Q1111110
2014 Q2109111
2014 Q3111112
2014 Q4113112
2015 Q1108112
2015 Q2112114
2015 Q3112114
2015 Q4119114
2016 Q1117115
2016 Q2113116
2016 Q3114116
2016 Q4113117
2017 Q1117115
2017 Q2119116
2017 Q3117117
2017 Q4115119
2018 Q1119118
2018 Q2120120
2018 Q3120120
2018 Q4124120
2019 Q1120120
2019 Q2121122
2019 Q3126123
2019 Q4126124
2020 Q1129125
2020 Q2127126
2020 Q3134128
2020 Q4134130
2021 Q1136132
2021 Q2140136
2021 Q3144143
2021 Q4148147
2022 Q1147149
2022 Q2164156
2022 Q3153158
2022 Q4163157
2023 Q1159160
2023 Q2168160
2023 Q3176166
2023 Q4155168
2024 Q1152167
2024 Q2181175
2024 Q3175176
2024 Q4184179
2025 Q1176180
2025 Q2180181
2025 Q3188186
2025 Q4186188
2026 Q1192189
2026 Q2195195

Chart through 2026 Q2. Annual growth figures through 2025.

Growth was stronger over the last five years than over the full decade: +4.9% a year over ten years, +61.9% in total.

Over this history, home prices never fell more than 3.4% from a prior peak.

The strongest year was 2022 at +10.5%, and the weakest was 2011 at -2.7%.

In 2025 alone the index moved +5.4%, against +5.5% for the state.

ZIP codes in Parkersburg, WV

Over the ten years to 2025, the 5 ZIP codes FHFA measures in this metro ranged from +54.1% in 26104 to +74.5% in 26187, while the metro as a whole rose 61.9%.

ZIP codes in Parkersburg-Vienna, WV ranked by 10-year home-price change through 2025 Column headers are buttons: click to sort, click again to reverse, and a third time to restore the original order.
26187+24.4%+7.9%+5.7%+74.5%
26105+9.3%+6.4%+5.1%+64.5%
26181+7.9%+7.5%+4.9%+61.9%
26101+1.0%+7.3%+4.6%+57.5%
26104-3.4%+6.7%+4.4%+54.1%

What a home report shows

Enter an address and you get a score out of 10 for how the home ranks on appreciation potential against comparable homes in its market, with the nearby sales behind it. Here is one saved report.

Example report · saved October 14, 2026

165 N Canal St, Apt 1205, Chicago, IL 60606

Appreciation score

4.1 / 10

Around the median

Where it ranks

Ranks above about 41% of comparable homes in Chicago, IL for appreciation potential.

Price against nearby sales

Priced below most nearby sales, at $300 per square foot across 6 comparable sales.

Read the full example report

Year by year

Annual house price index for Parkersburg-Vienna, WV and West Virginia, 2005 = 100 Column headers are buttons: click to sort, click again to reverse, and a third time to restore the original order.
2005100.0—100.0
2006101.6+1.6%105.8
2007102.9+1.3%107.9
2008104.9+1.9%107.3
2009105.9+0.9%105.1
2010105.1-0.7%103.7
2011102.3-2.7%102.2
2012105.0+2.7%102.7
2013107.4+2.3%104.2
2014110.6+2.9%106.2
2015112.4+1.7%108.7
2016114.1+1.4%110.8
2017116.5+2.1%111.8
2018120.4+3.4%114.2
2019123.1+2.2%116.9
2020130.5+6.0%121.8
2021141.7+8.6%133.5
2022156.6+10.5%148.1
2023164.1+4.8%156.5
2024172.7+5.2%166.7
2025182.0+5.4%175.8

The 7 measured metros in West Virginia

Measured metros in West Virginia ranked by 5-year home-price appreciation through 2025 Column headers are buttons: click to sort, click again to reverse, and a third time to restore the original order.
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1Weirton-Steubenville, WV-OH+10.8%+9.4%+6.7%
2Beckley, WV+8.6%+9.2%+4.8%
3Huntington-Ashland, WV-KY-OH+7.1%+7.3%+4.6%
4Parkersburg-Vienna, WV+5.4%+6.9%+4.9%
5Morgantown, WV+7.8%+6.7%+4.5%
6Charleston, WV+4.4%+6.6%+3.7%
7Wheeling, WV-OH+5.4%+6.6%+4.8%

Source & method: Metro figures: FHFA quarterly all-transactions index for metropolitan statistical areas and metropolitan divisions, annualized as the mean of the four quarterly (NSA) values. State figures: FHFA quarterly all-transactions index, annualized as the mean of the four quarterly (NSA) values. The chart uses quarterly readings, with each series set to 100 in the first quarter of 2005. ZIP figures: FHFA annual five-digit ZIP index (developmental), ZIPs with sufficient transaction history. Missing years are reported as missing by FHFA and are not estimated. Each ZIP is placed in the metro that holds the county with most of its housing units. “5-yr /yr” and “10-yr /yr” are compound annual growth over the window ending 2025; all figures are nominal. Data published by the FHFA House Price Index; this edition compiled 2026-10-17. Educational data, not investment advice.

See the West Virginia row in the state rankings, the county rankings, and, for why one metro number hides so much, why two homes in the same ZIP code appreciate differently.

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Measured FHFA data · chart through 2026 Q2