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The median home value in Dunbar, WV is $125,959 as of 2026-07-31, down 5.06% from a year earlier.
Median Home Value
$125,959
Year-over-Year
-5.06%
Population
7,070
Dunbar ranks #18 of 20 West Virginia cities tracked here by median home value, and sits 18.9% below the state's city median of $155,220. It sits in Kanawha County, where the county-wide median is $154,657.
Median household income in Dunbar is $58,379, so the typical home value is about 2.2× annual household income. This is a simple price-to-income benchmark rather than a monthly payment estimate; it does not account for mortgage rates, down payments, taxes or insurance.
Household income comes from the U.S. Census Bureau's ACS 5-Year Estimates, table B19013 (how the affordability measure works).
Dunbar police recorded a violent crime rate of 311 per 100,000 residents in 2024 — around the middle of the range for reporting cities. Property crime runs at 1,810 per 100,000.
Reported by the city's own police department to the FBI's Uniform Crime Reporting Program (what this covers).
People often call this an average home price, but the figure shown here is Zillow's typical home value (ZHVI), not a simple arithmetic average. In Dunbar, that value is $125,959. That's down 5.06% from a year earlier. It is about 18.9% below the typical West Virginia city tracked here.
Homes in Dunbar are cheaper than Kanawha County as a whole, where the median is $154,657 — a difference of about 18.6%.
Median household income here is $58,379, so the typical home value is about 2.2× annual household income. This ratio is a broad comparison measure, not a mortgage-payment estimate.
Dunbar police reported 311 violent crimes per 100,000 residents, covering a population of about 7,070. Crime rates are one input among many — they vary block to block within a city, and this figure is a citywide average.
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