State or territory · Census 2020–2024
Median rent and rent burden in West Virginia
- Median monthly gross rent
- $872 ± $8 margin
- Rent burden · 30% or more
- 48.9% ± 1.1 percentage points
- Severe burden · 50% or more
- 24.5% ± 0.9 percentage points
How much income would keep this rent at 30%?
The area’s median gross rent would equal 30% of an annual household income of $34,880. The calculation multiplies monthly rent by 12 and divides by 0.30.
Compare with broader areas
| Area | Median gross rent ± margin | Rent burden | Severe burden |
|---|---|---|---|
| West Virginia | $872 ± $8 | 48.9% | 24.5% |
| United States | $1,413 ± $2 | 51.1% | 25.9% |
Browse counties in West Virginia
- Barbour County$803 median gross rent · 33.5% rent burden
- Berkeley County$1,233 median gross rent · 48% rent burden
- Boone County$837 median gross rent · 49.6% rent burden
- Braxton County$606 median gross rent · 36.1% rent burden
- Brooke County$645 median gross rent · 37.8% rent burden
- Cabell County$923 median gross rent · 56.9% rent burden
- Calhoun County$473 median gross rent · 44.8% rent burden
- Fayette County$788 median gross rent · 52.7% rent burden
- Gilmer County$750 median gross rent · 22% rent burden
- Grant County$644 median gross rent · 52.2% rent burden
- Greenbrier County$868 median gross rent · 57.4% rent burden
- Hampshire County$720 median gross rent · 27% rent burden
- Hancock County$771 median gross rent · 48.1% rent burden
- Hardy County$816 median gross rent · 30% rent burden
- Harrison County$879 median gross rent · 50.3% rent burden
- Jackson County$716 median gross rent · 47% rent burden
- Jefferson County$1,108 median gross rent · 41.3% rent burden
- Kanawha County$906 median gross rent · 47.4% rent burden
- Lewis County$730 median gross rent · 41.6% rent burden
- Lincoln County$771 median gross rent · 43% rent burden
- Logan County$710 median gross rent · 44.4% rent burden
- Marion County$932 median gross rent · 43.7% rent burden
- Marshall County$837 median gross rent · 51.6% rent burden
- Mason County$671 median gross rent · 32.5% rent burden
- McDowell County$643 median gross rent · 50.5% rent burden
- Mercer County$810 median gross rent · 51% rent burden
- Mineral County$809 median gross rent · 49% rent burden
- Mingo County$647 median gross rent · 45.1% rent burden
- Monongalia County$987 median gross rent · 54.2% rent burden
- Monroe County$690 median gross rent · 40.9% rent burden
- Morgan County$794 median gross rent · 40.1% rent burden
- Nicholas County$686 median gross rent · 32.3% rent burden
- Ohio County$821 median gross rent · 54.8% rent burden
- Pendleton County$770 median gross rent · 30.4% rent burden
- Pleasants County$715 median gross rent · 41.7% rent burden
- Pocahontas County$715 median gross rent · 39.5% rent burden
- Preston County$750 median gross rent · 51.4% rent burden
- Putnam County$952 median gross rent · 43.8% rent burden
- Raleigh County$902 median gross rent · 54.1% rent burden
- Randolph County$821 median gross rent · 45% rent burden
- Ritchie County$579 median gross rent · 48.4% rent burden
- Roane County$614 median gross rent · 53.3% rent burden
- Taylor County$835 median gross rent · 44.8% rent burden
- Tucker County$656 median gross rent · 48.5% rent burden
- Tyler County$748 median gross rent · 47.4% rent burden
- Upshur County$886 median gross rent · 46.1% rent burden
- Wayne County$915 median gross rent · 45.2% rent burden
- Webster County$709 median gross rent · 66.9% rent burden
- Wetzel County$688 median gross rent · 37.2% rent burden
- Wood County$822 median gross rent · 48.8% rent burden
Data and definitions
How to read the estimates
The Census Bureau’s 2020–2024 American Community Survey five-year release provides these survey estimates. America.co matched Census rent tables by geography ID and used the Gazetteer’s representative points to calculate straight-line distance.
- Gross rent includes contract rent and utilities or fuels paid separately. The median describes cash-rent homes surveyed during this period.
- Rent burden means gross rent was at least 30% of household income. Severe rent burden means at least 50%. Both shares use only cash-rent households for which Census could compute the ratio.
- Margins use the Census 90% confidence level. The rent margin is published by Census. The burden margins are approximate and combine the published category margins using the Census sum and proportion formulas. County and ZIP-area pages require at least 100 estimated households with a computed ratio, a rent margin at most 35% of the estimate, and a rent-burden margin of 20 percentage points or less.
- ZIP areas are Census ZIP Code Tabulation Areas. A mailing ZIP can differ or have no corresponding Census area. Distances are straight-line distances between representative points.
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