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Housing in Red Jacket

A typical Red Jacket home is worth roughly $208,000

Typical home value
$208K
WV $180K
Estimate
2-bedroom rent
$890
a month, utilities in · HUD
Median tax bill
$1,108
WV $865

What kind of housing town is Red Jacket?

Read from the numbers below. The page puts what stands out first.

★ What stands out · The homes

79% of Red Jacket households own their home

Half of Red Jacket’s homes were built before 1953.

Owners and renters
Own 79%Rent 21%

West Virginia: 75% own.

1953
typical home built · WV 1976
$1,108
median property tax bill · WV $865

U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2020-2024 · figures for a place this size carry wide margins of error.

Affordability

What it takes to buy in Red Jacket

Try your own numbers below.

You could afford about
$246,000
Typical Red Jacket home $208K

That covers a typical Red Jacket home, with $39K to spare.

The typical home, each month
$1,180
Loan $1,030Tax $90Insurance $60

A two-bedroom rents for about $890 a month here, $290 less than owning.

Where your budget reaches nearby

An estimate, not a loan offer: payments of up to 28% of income, a 30-year fixed loan, the West Virginia typical property tax (0.53% of value a year, from the Census) and insurance of about 0.35%. Mortgage insurance, HOA fees and other debts aren’t included.

Renting

A two-bedroom rents for about $890

Fair Market Rent a month, utilities included

Studio$680
1 bedroom$690
2 bedrooms$890
3 bedrooms$1,070
4 bedrooms$1,290
21%
of households rent · WV 25%
59
renter households

U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, Fair Market Rents by ZIP code (Mingo County, WV): the 40th-percentile rent plus utilities for a standard unit. Median rent and renters: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey.

Next door

Red Jacket vs. its neighbors

The towns that share a border with Red Jacket. Tap one to see its housing page.

Compare more
TownTypical value1-yr change2-bed rentNew homes 2025Median income
Red Jacket$208K*—$890——
Matewan$112K*—$8800$16,105

Typical value: Zillow Home Value Index; * Census median home value where Zillow has none. † FHFA price index change where Zillow has none. Rent: HUD Fair Market Rent. New homes: Census building permits.

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Home values: Zillow Home Value Index (ZHVI), Zillow Research. Sales, days on market and supply: Redfin Data Center. Income, ownership, taxes and rent: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey. Fair Market Rents: U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. Listings link to their publishers. The calculator is an estimate, not a loan offer.

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