Wyoming County, WV
Housing, jobs, water, deposits and federal obligations for this county, each figure with the release it came from. Internal point 37.60, -81.55.
Assembled 2026-10-07. Read the brief.
- 0th pct · 3,050th of 3,063 US counties · median $234,566
- 1st pct · 54th of 55 West Virginia counties · median $154,872
- 27th pct · 2,207th of 3,063 US counties · median +2.9%
- 22nd pct · 43rd of 55 West Virginia counties · median +3.3%
- US counties: not published this period
- West Virginia counties: not published this period
- 32nd pct · 2,172nd of 3,221 US counties · median 8,232
- 38th pct · 34th of 55 West Virginia counties · median 5,555
- 59th pct · 1,301st of 3,221 US counties · median $1,039
- 53rd pct · 26th of 55 West Virginia counties · median $1,076
- 0th pct · 3,055th of 3,063 US counties · median 4.3
- 1st pct · 54th 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 $67,542 (Aug 2026), +0.9% over one year, -1.5% over five
- 0th pct · 3,050th of 3,063 US counties · median $234,566
- 1st pct · 54th of 55 West Virginia counties · median $154,872
| Item | Value | Distance |
|---|---|---|
| Wyoming County, WV | $67,542 · +0.9% 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 $370 a month on $67,542 at 7.28%, against an average weekly wage worth $4,702 a month: 7.9% of one job’s pay.
- payment = P·r / (1 − (1+r)^−n), P = $67,542 × 80% = $54,034, r = 7.28%/12 (Freddie Mac PMMS via FRED, 2026-10-01), n = 360 → $370/mo principal and interest
- wage share = payment / (avg weekly wage $1,085 × 52 / 12 = $4,702) = 8% of one average job's pay (BLS QCEW 2026 Q1, all covered jobs)
- years of wages = $67,542 / ($1,085 × 52) = 1.2
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 #
4,156 jobs at 446 employers (2026 Q1); -5.7% jobs and +1.9% average weekly wage over the year
- 32nd pct · 2,172nd of 3,221 US counties · median 8,232
- 38th pct · 34th of 55 West Virginia counties · median 5,555
| Item | Value | Distance |
|---|---|---|
| Wyoming County, WV | 4,156 jobs · $1,085/wk · -5.7% YoY |
| NAICS sector | Jobs | Avg weekly wage | Location quotient | Jobs over the year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mining, oil and gas | 945 | $2,224 | 63.86 | -1.0% |
| Retail trade | 467 | $522 | 1.15 | -7.2% |
| Administrative and waste services | 130 | $706 | 0.55 | +0.0% |
| Other services | 61 | $760 | 0.49 | +0.0% |
| Finance and insurance | 51 | $812 | 0.30 | +6.2% |
| Transportation and warehousing | 49 | $1,502 | 0.28 | -40.2% |
| Utilities | 24 | $2,322 | 1.46 | +0.0% |
| Real estate and rental | 24 | $877 | 0.38 | -31.4% |
| Agriculture, forestry, fishing | 17 | $1,234 | 0.57 | +6.2% |
| Wholesale trade | 9 | $515 | 0.06 | -30.8% |
| Construction | withheld | |||
| Manufacturing | withheld |
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 #
1 USGS reservoir gauges, no capacity figures to weight
Sites found: 1, 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.
| Site | Reading | Distance |
|---|---|---|
| LITTLE RIVER RESERVOIR NEAR RADFORD, VA | 231.0 Acre-ft (USGS, no capacity on file) | 104 km |
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 #
50 gauges · 0 flooding · 13 with quality panels averaging 98 % · 18 stale
Sites found: 50, 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.
| Site | Reading | Distance |
|---|---|---|
| GUYANDOTTE RIVER AT PINEVILLE, WV | flow 124.0 ft³/s | 3 km |
| GUYANDOTTE RIVER NEAR BAILEYSVILLE, WV | flow 94.5 ft³/s | 8 km |
| CLEAR FORK AT CLEAR FORK, WV | flow 15.1 ft³/s | 14 km |
| TUG FORK DOWNSTREAM OF ELKHORN CREEK AT WELCH, WV | flow 58.0 ft³/s | 19 km |
| LITTLE HUFF CR AT LITTLE CUB CR RD AT HANOVER, WV | flow 0.84 ft³/s | 24 km |
| JOHNS KNOB BRANCH AT ELKHORN, WV | flow 2.90 ft³/s · STALE | 28 km |
| TUG FORK AT LITWAR, WV | flow 138.0 ft³/s | 29 km |
| DRY FORK AT BEARTOWN, WV | flow 45.1 ft³/s | 32 km |
| GUYANDOTTE RIVER AT MAN, WV | flow 2,100 ft³/s | 33 km |
| PANTHER CREEK NEAR PANTHER, WV | flow 4.33 ft³/s | 33 km |
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 #
20 wells in 0 named aquifers:
Sites found: 20, 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.
| Site | Reading | Distance |
|---|---|---|
| USGS-373701081271301 | depth 30.6 ft · 1983-01-11 | 9 km |
| USGS-373949081280501 | depth 25.8 ft · 1979-11-29 | 10 km |
| USGS-373749081262701 | depth 5.32 ft · 1983-01-10 | 10 km |
| USGS-374052081283201 | depth 23.3 ft · 1979-11-11 | 11 km |
| USGS-373452081254301 | depth 17.6 ft · 1979-11-30 | 11 km |
| USGS-374057081281401 | depth 153.1 ft · 1979-12-09 | 11 km |
| USGS-373839081255201 | depth 29.9 ft · 2026-10-06 | 11 km |
| USGS-374052081270801 | depth 8.91 ft · 1979-11-23 | 12 km |
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 (0.01)
Σ wᵢ·termᵢ / Σ wᵢ = 0.35×0.00 + 0.2×0.02 / 0.55
Banks & federal dollars #
$333.7 m in deposits at 5 offices of 2 banks (SOD June 2026); HHI 6,360, highly concentrated. $145.2 m federal obligations in FY2026 (direct payments $151.2 m, contracts $26.6 m), $34,944 per covered job
| Item | Value | Distance |
|---|---|---|
| Burke & Herbert Bank & Trust Company | $253.8 m · 76.1% share · 3 offices | |
| First Community Bank | $79.8 m · 23.9% share · 2 offices | |
| Wyoming, WV | $145.2 m FY2026 · $34,944/job | |
| MULTIPLE RECIPIENTS | $149.5 m · top recipient FY2026 |
| Institution | Deposits | Share | Offices |
|---|---|---|---|
| Burke & Herbert Bank & Trust Company | $253,843,000 | 76.1% | 3 |
| First Community Bank | $79,815,000 | 23.9% | 2 |
Deposit concentration is 6,360 across 2 banks, which the 1995 Department of Justice bank merger screen calls highly concentrated.
HHI = Σ (share %)² over 2 banks with deposits in the county = 76.1² + 23.9² = 6,360
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 | $132,670,664 |
| Department of Veterans Affairs | $25,916,609 |
| Department of Homeland Security | $10,930,516 |
| Department of Health and Human Services | $4,666,935 |
| Department of State | $2,966,565 |
| Railroad Retirement Board | $2,313,956 |
| Environmental Protection Agency | $850,000 |
| Department of Housing and Urban Development | $826,727 |
| Department of Justice | $648,854 |
| Federal Communications Commission | $567,344 |
| Department of Agriculture | $438,109 |
| Department of Labor | $230,560 |
That is $34,944 per covered job, against 4,156 jobs in the 2026 Q1 QCEW quarter.
per job = FY2026 obligations $145.2 m / 4,156 covered jobs (BLS QCEW 2026 Q1, all ownerships) = $34,944
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 | 3.00 | 2026-10-06 | -50.0% |
| Shanghai to Los Angeles container rate · $ per 40 ft box | 7,848.00 | 2026-09-01 | +14.9% |
| 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 #
Wyoming County, WV: 14 findings, 1 at an alert level, 1 at a watch level and 12 noted
alertWyoming County, WV's covered employment is -5.7% against a year earlier, an alert level here: covered employment at least 3 percent below the same quarter a year earlier (BLS QCEW over-the-year percent change, as published; 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.emp = -5.7 <= -3
BLS QCEW over-the-year percent change, as published; convention chosen for this dashboard, not an official level
watchWyoming County, WV's covered employment is -5.7% 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 = -5.7 < 0
BLS QCEW over-the-year percent change, as published; not an official level
noteWyoming County, WV's covered employment was 5.7% 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
- -5.7 % = 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
noteWyoming County, WV's average weekly wage was 1.9% higher 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
- +1.9 % = 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
noteWyoming County, WV's typical home value fell 0.6% from $67,940 in July 2026 to $67,542 in August 2026, on Zillow ZHVI.
Period 2026-08.Show the arithmetic
- -0.6% = (67542.19426608177 - 67940.28596107222) / 67940.28596107222 × 100
- 67542.19426608177 = Zillow ZHVI, 2026-08
- 67940.28596107222 = Zillow ZHVI, 2026-07
Read all 12 findings in the full brief
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