Logan County, WV
Housing, jobs, water, deposits and federal obligations for this county, each figure with the release it came from. Internal point 37.83, -81.94.
Assembled 2026-10-06. Read the brief.
- 3rd pct · 2,950th of 3,063 US counties · median $234,566
- 11th pct · 49th of 55 West Virginia counties · median $154,872
- 48th pct · 1,587th of 3,063 US counties · median +2.9%
- 44th pct · 31st of 55 West Virginia counties · median +3.3%
- US counties: not published this period
- West Virginia counties: not published this period
- 58th pct · 1,347th of 3,221 US counties · median 8,232
- 75th pct · 14th of 55 West Virginia counties · median 5,555
- 66th pct · 1,086th of 3,221 US counties · median $1,039
- 62nd pct · 21st of 55 West Virginia counties · median $1,076
- 2nd pct · 2,983rd of 3,063 US counties · median 4.3
- 9th pct · 50th of 55 West Virginia counties · median 2.8
Typical home value divided by the average annual wage of one covered job.
A percentile here is a min-max scaling of average rank: the smallest published value in the cohort is 0 and the largest is 100, and tied values share the average of the ranks they span. It is not the share of entities below the value, so 0 means smallest, not none below. Entities that did not publish the metric are outside the cohort entirely and are counted in neither the rank nor its denominator.
Home values #
Typical home $106,448 (Aug 2026), +2.8% over one year, +17.0% over five
- 3rd pct · 2,950th of 3,063 US counties · median $234,566
- 11th pct · 49th of 55 West Virginia counties · median $154,872
| Item | Value | Distance |
|---|---|---|
| Logan County, WV | $106,448 · +2.8% 1-yr |
Zillow Home Value Index (ZHVI), typical value of homes in the 35th to 65th percentile, smoothed and seasonally adjusted; a model estimate of value, not a sale price. Data through Zillow Research.
Rents #
Zillow publishes no rent index for this area (ZORI covers about 1,400 counties)
- US counties: not published this period
- West Virginia counties: not published this period
Zillow Observed Rent Index (ZORI), smoothed, all homes and multifamily; price-to-rent = typical home / (typical rent × 12).
What the typical home costs to carry #
Principal and interest of $583 a month on $106,448 at 7.28%, against an average weekly wage worth $4,862 a month: 12.0% of one job’s pay.
- payment = P·r / (1 − (1+r)^−n), P = $106,448 × 80% = $85,158, r = 7.28%/12 (Freddie Mac PMMS via FRED, 2026-10-01), n = 360 → $583/mo principal and interest
- wage share = payment / (avg weekly wage $1,122 × 52 / 12 = $4,862) = 12% of one average job's pay (BLS QCEW 2026 Q1, all covered jobs)
- years of wages = $106,448 / ($1,122 × 52) = 1.8
The wage is one covered job’s average, not a household’s income, so this is the share of a single paycheque and not a mortgage underwriting ratio.
Estimate. Principal and interest on the typical home with 20% down over 30 years at this week's Freddie Mac average rate; compared with the average weekly wage of all jobs covered by unemployment insurance in the area (BLS QCEW), which is pay per job, not household income.
Jobs & wages #
11,619 jobs at 1,005 employers (2026 Q1); -0.9% jobs and -0.3% average weekly wage over the year
- 58th pct · 1,347th of 3,221 US counties · median 8,232
- 75th pct · 14th of 55 West Virginia counties · median 5,555
| Item | Value | Distance |
|---|---|---|
| Logan County, WV | 11,619 jobs · $1,122/wk · -0.9% YoY |
| NAICS sector | Jobs | Avg weekly wage | Location quotient | Jobs over the year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Health care and social assistance | 2,036 | $1,079 | 1.16 | +0.0% |
| Retail trade | 1,446 | $688 | 1.28 | -4.0% |
| Accommodation and food services | 908 | $374 | 0.87 | -1.9% |
| Administrative and waste services | 771 | $1,198 | 1.17 | +13.7% |
| Other services | 533 | $862 | 1.54 | -7.0% |
| Construction | 392 | $875 | 0.64 | +33.8% |
| Manufacturing | 335 | $1,345 | 0.36 | -7.5% |
| Wholesale trade | 235 | $1,242 | 0.53 | -0.4% |
| Transportation and warehousing | 171 | $1,021 | 0.35 | -15.3% |
| Finance and insurance | 157 | $991 | 0.33 | +4.7% |
| Information | 105 | $1,725 | 0.49 | +25.0% |
| Arts, entertainment and recreation | 93 | $356 | 0.49 | +13.4% |
BLS Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages, all ownerships, total covered employment in the quarter's third month; over-the-year changes as published. Suppressed cells stay blank.
Drought #
No drought class at this point (USDM covers the United States only)
Sites found: 5, searched within 0 km of this place’s internal point. That is a disc around a point, not the area itself: sites outside the boundary are included, and sites inside it further than 0 km away are not.
US Drought Monitor current week; the highest class of any polygon containing the point.
Reservoirs #
Surface water layer not loaded
Sites found: 0, searched within 150 km of this place’s internal point. That is a disc around a point, not the area itself: sites outside the boundary are included, and sites inside it further than 150 km away are not.
Σ(capacity × percent full) / Σ capacity over TWDB reservoirs within 150 km. Texas only; elsewhere USGS reservoir elevation/storage is listed without a capacity to normalise by.
Stream gauges #
Surface water layer not loaded
Sites found: 0, searched within 75 km of this place’s internal point. That is a disc around a point, not the area itself: sites outside the boundary are included, and sites inside it further than 75 km away are not.
USGS latest readings screened against EPA freshwater criteria (DO ≥ 5 mg/L, pH 6.5–9, conductance, turbidity, temperature); NWS flood categories where a NWPS gauge is co-located.
Groundwater #
No USGS monitoring wells within 75 km (or above 1,500 km)
Sites found: 0, searched within 75 km of this place’s internal point. That is a disc around a point, not the area itself: sites outside the boundary are included, and sites inside it further than 75 km away are not.
USGS latest daily water levels. A single latest reading says where the table is, not which way it is moving; select a well for its 365-day trace.
Water stress #
low (0.00)
Σ wᵢ·termᵢ / Σ wᵢ = 0.35×0.00 / 0.35
Banks & federal dollars #
$646.2 m in deposits at 13 offices of 7 banks (SOD June 2026); HHI 2,963, highly concentrated. $253.1 m federal obligations in FY2026 (direct payments $241.0 m, grants $12.0 m), $21,784 per covered job
| Item | Value | Distance |
|---|---|---|
| Logan Bank & Trust Company | $306.9 m · 47.5% share · 5 offices | |
| JPMorgan Chase Bank, National Association | $119.4 m · 18.5% share · 1 office | |
| United Bank | $105.8 m · 16.4% share · 3 offices | |
| Logan, WV | $253.1 m FY2026 · $21,784/job | |
| MULTIPLE RECIPIENTS | $235.4 m · top recipient FY2026 |
| Institution | Deposits | Share | Offices |
|---|---|---|---|
| Logan Bank & Trust Company | $306,863,000 | 47.5% | 5 |
| JPMorgan Chase Bank, National Association | $119,432,000 | 18.5% | 1 |
| United Bank | $105,774,000 | 16.4% | 3 |
| Truist Bank | $45,635,000 | 7.1% | 1 |
| First Community Bank | $39,367,000 | 6.1% | 1 |
| Peoples Bank | $20,011,000 | 3.1% | 1 |
| Woodforest National Bank | $9,156,000 | 1.4% | 1 |
Deposit concentration is 2,963 across 7 banks, which the 1995 Department of Justice bank merger screen calls highly concentrated.
HHI = Σ (share %)² over 7 banks with deposits in the county = 47.5² + 18.5² + 16.4² + … (4 more) = 2,963
FDIC Summary of Deposits: deposits at every insured office as of June 30, annual; HHI is the sum of squared county deposit shares (DOJ 1995 bank merger screen: 1000 / 1800). USAspending: obligations by place of performance for the latest complete federal fiscal year (Oct 1 to Sep 30), what agencies committed, not what they paid out; recipients are legal entities. Per-job divides obligations by BLS QCEW covered employment.
Federal obligations #
USAspending place-of-performance obligations for FY2026, by awarding agency.
| Awarding agency | Obligations |
|---|---|
| Social Security Administration | $209,204,304 |
| Department of Veterans Affairs | $23,359,304 |
| Department of Transportation | $7,888,964 |
| Department of Education | $5,696,823 |
| Railroad Retirement Board | $2,449,876 |
| Department of Health and Human Services | $1,902,819 |
| Department of Housing and Urban Development | $1,277,954 |
| Federal Communications Commission | $518,186 |
| Environmental Protection Agency | $500,000 |
| Department of Justice | $170,500 |
| Department of Agriculture | $147,116 |
| Department of Commerce | $0 |
That is $21,784 per covered job, against 11,619 jobs in the 2026 Q1 QCEW quarter.
per job = FY2026 obligations $253.1 m / 11,619 covered jobs (BLS QCEW 2026 Q1, all ownerships) = $21,784
USAspending obligations are recorded where the work is performed, so a prime award performed here is counted here even when the recipient is headquartered elsewhere. Recipients are legal entities, never people.
National context, not this county #
These are United States, single-gauge, single-state and port series. None of them is keyed to this county.
| Series | Latest | As of | Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mississippi River at Memphis, stage · ft | not published | not published | |
| Mississippi River at St. Louis, stage · ft | not published | not published | |
| Ohio River at Louisville, stage · ft | 12.69 | 2026-10-05 | +3.3% |
| Missouri River at St. Joseph, stage · ft | not published | not published | |
| Colorado River below Hoover Dam, flow (Hoover releases) · ft³/s | 5,170.00 | 2026-02-05 | -25.3% |
| Texas reservoirs, statewide percent full · % | 72.60 | 2026-10-06 | +0.0% |
| Laredo truck crossings, monthly · trucks | 258,700.00 | 2026-08-01 | -0.4% |
| Los Angeles + Long Beach container volume, annual · TEU | 10,513,167.00 | 2023-01-01 | -13.5% |
| Containerships waiting for a berth, all US ports · ships | 6.00 | 2026-09-22 | -14.3% |
| Shanghai to Los Angeles container rate · $ per 40 ft box | 6,830.00 | 2026-08-01 | +7.4% |
| US diesel retail price · $ per gallon | unavailable | not published | |
| WTI crude oil, spot · $ per barrel | 96.16 | 2026-09-29 | -3.2% |
| 30-year fixed mortgage rate · % | 7.28 | 2026-10-01 | +3.6% |
| Housing starts, annual rate · thousands of units | 1,275.00 | 2026-08-01 | -2.6% |
| Building permits, annual rate · thousands of units | 1,403.00 | 2026-08-01 | -2.1% |
| Case-Shiller US home price index · index, Jan 2000 = 100 | 337.31 | 2026-07-01 | +0.1% |
| Unemployment rate · % | 4.20 | 2026-09-01 | +2.4% |
| US goods and services trade balance, monthly · $ millions | -105,572.00 | 2026-08-01 | -13.7% |
| Retail sales excluding food services, monthly · $ millions | 646,347.00 | 2026-08-01 | +1.1% |
The indicator registry has no county-keyed series and no geographic selection: every entry is national, a named gauge, a single state or a port. They are here as the backdrop the county's own numbers move against, and they are never this county's readings.
What changed #
Logan County, WV: 9 findings, 2 at a watch level and 7 noted
watchLogan County, WV's covered employment is -0.9% against a year earlier, a watch level here: covered employment below the same quarter a year earlier (BLS QCEW over-the-year percent change, as published; not an official level). The previous published period is not in this table, so this is a standing level rather than a change.
Period 2026 Q1.Show the arithmetic
- test: jobs.yoy.emp = -0.9 < 0
BLS QCEW over-the-year percent change, as published; not an official level
watchLogan County, WV's average weekly wage is -0.3% against a year earlier, a watch level here: average weekly wage below the same quarter a year earlier, before inflation (BLS QCEW over-the-year percent change, as published, nominal dollars; convention chosen for this dashboard, not an official level). The previous published period is not in this table, so this is a standing level rather than a change.
Period 2026 Q1.Show the arithmetic
- test: jobs.yoy.avgWeeklyWage = -0.3 < 0
BLS QCEW over-the-year percent change, as published, nominal dollars; convention chosen for this dashboard, not an official level
noteLogan County, WV's covered employment was 0.9% lower than the same quarter a year earlier in 2026 Q1, on BLS QCEW's published over-the-year change.
Period 2026 Q1.Show the arithmetic
- -0.9 % = BLS QCEW over-the-year percent change for 2026 Q1, as published
- the newest QCEW file carries no year-earlier level, so no move from one level to another is printed
BLS QCEW over-the-year percent change, as published
noteLogan County, WV's typical home value rose 0.8% from $105,628 in July 2026 to $106,448 in August 2026, on Zillow ZHVI.
Period 2026-08.Show the arithmetic
- +0.8% = (106447.89185292262 - 105627.70099780837) / 105627.70099780837 × 100
- 106447.89185292262 = Zillow ZHVI, 2026-08
- 105627.70099780837 = Zillow ZHVI, 2026-07
noteLogan County, WV's average weekly wage was 0.3% lower than the same quarter a year earlier in 2026 Q1, on BLS QCEW's published over-the-year change.
Period 2026 Q1.Show the arithmetic
- -0.3 % = BLS QCEW over-the-year percent change for 2026 Q1, as published
- the newest QCEW file carries no year-earlier level, so no move from one level to another is printed
BLS QCEW over-the-year percent change, as published
Read all 9 findings in the full brief
Every finding is produced by a fixed rule table and a fixed sentence for each rule. Nothing here is generated prose.