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West Virginia: county data, all 55 of them.

Every West Virginia county has a data page built from federal sources, each figure carrying its publisher and period. What this page does not carry is the West Virginia statutory framework, and the reason is below rather than hidden.

Counties
55
Population
1,778,373
Land area
24,040 sq mi
Establishments
35,413
Combined county GDP
$106.48 bn
SBA approvals recorded
1,282

Read this first

This is a county directory, not a state guide.

The county pages below are complete. They carry demographics, growth and migration, economic output, employment and wages, business establishments by industry, the construction pipeline, the SBA lending record including charge off rates, geography and hazard. Every figure names its publisher and the period it describes.

What is missing is the West Virginia legal and regulatory frame: how zoning and land development codes work in this state, what the entitlement path looks like, which agencies permit what, and which statutes override local codes. That material requires a research pack for West Virginia, and no such pack exists yet.

Why there is no state guide here

You cannot write West Virginia zoning law from a population table. Everything on the county pages is derived from federal datasets that cover all counties equally; statutory analysis is not, and generating it anyway would produce confident text about the law that nothing behind it supports.

Florida and California have research packs and therefore have full state guides. The remaining eight, including this one, do not. That is stated rather than papered over.

Counties

All 55 West Virginia county-equivalents.

West Virginia counties: population, income, establishments and SBA activity
GeographyPopulationMedian incomeEstablishmentsCounty GDPSBA approvalsLand area, sq mi
Barbour County15,424$51,394217$781.1 m11341
Berkeley County129,514$80,8151,859$6.09 bn55321
Boone County21,026$57,093241$1.09 bn7502
Braxton County12,208$50,331232$417.2 m10511
Brooke County21,805$54,316366$1.32 bn489
Cabell County92,739$55,8322,331$6.66 bn83281
Calhoun County6,048$43,98086$148.6 mNone recorded279
Clay County7,835$42,31882$213.3 m2342
Doddridge County7,711$57,40169$665.2 m1320
Fayette County39,519$53,194710$1.58 bn15662
Gilmer County7,288$47,981102$230.3 m1339
Grant County10,983$62,361241$618.8 m4477
Greenbrier County32,386$48,218888$1.45 bn131,020
Hampshire County23,465$63,116310$562.6 m11640
Hancock County28,431$61,466544$1.25 bn3583
Hardy County14,243$49,272294$1.03 bn8582
Harrison County64,984$60,3771,781$6.05 bn87416
Jackson County27,705$58,845472$1.07 bn13464
Jefferson County59,260$98,806976$3.04 bn50210
Kanawha County176,537$60,9434,396$14.45 bn131902
Lewis County16,740$56,477363$724.1 m25385
Lincoln County19,902$46,205172$333.4 m5437
Logan County31,418$49,723595$2.10 bn8454
Marion County55,909$67,3701,114$3.05 bn64309
Marshall County29,865$59,169481$3.68 bn10305
Mason County25,043$49,761324$1.09 bn4431
McDowell County17,943$31,559213$727.8 m2533
Mercer County58,563$53,2101,154$2.34 bn24419
Mineral County26,854$69,375456$1.07 bn21328
Mingo County22,542$38,119326$967.9 m20423
Monongalia County107,163$65,3462,481$9.41 bn193360
Monroe County12,386$56,750171$309.4 m8473
Morgan County17,426$72,179232$412.7 m16229
Nicholas County24,277$54,639541$883.2 m7647
Ohio County41,582$57,0941,320$5.06 bn42106
Pendleton County6,043$64,931140$232.6 m4696
Pleasants County7,521$60,932125$574.9 m2130
Pocahontas County7,784$42,119231$352.5 m5940
Preston County34,160$61,880509$1.01 bn29649
Putnam County57,177$79,5271,248$3.83 bn61346
Raleigh County73,195$52,1501,713$4.53 bn31605
Randolph County27,576$52,757650$1.14 bn481,040
Ritchie County8,286$50,582188$715.8 m4452
Roane County13,786$45,778215$366.5 m2484
Summers County11,729$40,699162$271.2 m3360
Taylor County16,487$57,795223$853.9 m11173
Tucker County6,654$53,358159$405.9 m2419
Tyler County8,064$63,693122$1.45 bnNone recorded256
Upshur County23,712$54,338513$1.05 bn19355
Wayne County38,164$58,878434$1.35 bn9506
Webster County8,144$43,839113$179.2 m2553
Wetzel County14,078$56,836308$1.37 bn8358
Wirt County5,053$49,86752$92.8 mNone recorded233
Wood County83,407$57,8101,901$4.74 bn47366
Wyoming County20,629$48,440267$1.09 bn5499

The register

Every source behind these 55 pages.

SourcePeriod coveredLicence
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates2020-2024 5-yearUS Census Bureau, public domain
US Census Bureau, Population Estimates Program, Vintage 2024Vintage 2024, estimates 2020 to 2024US Census Bureau, public domain
US Bureau of Economic Analysis, Regional, table CAGDP2CAGDP2, through 2024US Bureau of Economic Analysis, public domain
US EPA, Map of Radon Zones, county spreadsheet2024-05 publication, EPA 402/A-16/001US EPA, public domain
FEMA OpenFEMA, NFIP Community Status BookCommunity Status Book, as retrievedFEMA OpenFEMA, public domain
US Small Business Administration, 7(a) FOIA releaseFY2020 to FY2026 year to date, as of 2026-06-30FOIA release, public domain
US Small Business Administration, 504 FOIA releaseFY2010 to FY2026 year to date, as of 2026-06-30FOIA release, public domain
US Census Bureau county boundary geometry, TIGER, adjacency computed from shared boundary verticesTIGER county boundariesUS Census Bureau, public domain
US Census Bureau, County Business Patterns2023US Census Bureau, public domain
US Bureau of Labor Statistics, Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages2024 annual averagesUS BLS, public domain
US Census Bureau, Building Permits Survey2024 annualUS Census Bureau, public domain
US Internal Revenue Service, Statistics of Income county migration flows2021 to 2022 filing yearsIRS SOI, public domain

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