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The median home value in Wheeling, WV is $154,161 as of 2026-07-31, up 4.63% from a year earlier.
Median Home Value
$154,161
Year-over-Year
+4.63%
Population
25,951
Wheeling ranks #12 of 20 West Virginia cities tracked here by median home value, and sits 0.7% below the state's city median of $155,220. It sits in Ohio County, where the county-wide median is $161,591.
Median household income in Wheeling is $48,590, so the typical home value is about 3.2× 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).
Wheeling police recorded a violent crime rate of 983 per 100,000 residents in 2024 — higher than most cities that report to the FBI. Property crime runs at 1,992 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 Wheeling, that value is $154,161. That's up 4.63% from a year earlier. It is about 0.7% below the typical West Virginia city tracked here.
Homes in Wheeling are cheaper than Ohio County as a whole, where the median is $161,591 — a difference of about 4.6%.
Median household income here is $48,590, so the typical home value is about 3.2× annual household income. This ratio is a broad comparison measure, not a mortgage-payment estimate.
Wheeling police reported 983 violent crimes per 100,000 residents, covering a population of about 25,951. 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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