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Rainelle town, West Virginia: commercial real estate data.
Rainelle town is a Census town of 1,458 people across 1.11 square miles of land, in Greenbrier County. Median household income is $35,625, 66.9 percent of occupied homes are owned, and the SBA record carries 1 7(a) approvals to borrowers here worth $50,000.
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Rainelle
What Rainelle is
- Census place typetown
- Land area1.11 sq mi
- Water area0 sq mi
- Population per square mile of land1,310 plus or minus 421
- County holding the largest share of its areaGreenbrier County, 100.0 percent
US Census Bureau, cartographic boundary file, places, 2024 vintage. US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Rainelle
How many people live in Rainelle
- Population1,458 plus or minus 468
- Median age48.8
- Population under 18252 plus or minus 127
- Share under 1817.3 percent plus or minus 6.7
- Population 65 and over251 plus or minus 81
- Share 65 and over17.2 percent
- Households661 plus or minus 164
- Family households309 plus or minus 119
- Share of households that are families46.7 percent plus or minus 13.8
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Rainelle
Income and work in Rainelle
- Median household income$35,625 plus or minus $13,174
- Per capita income$21,745 plus or minus $5,521
- Civilian labor force548 plus or minus 238
- Employed533 plus or minus 238
- Unemployed15 plus or minus 12
- Unemployment rate2.7 percent plus or minus 1.8
- Adults 25 and over1,148 plus or minus 347
- Adults 25 and over with a high school diploma or higher80.7 percent plus or minus 31.7
- Adults 25 and over with a bachelor degree or higher12.6 percent plus or minus 11.4
- Adults 25 and over with a graduate degree0.7 percent plus or minus 1.9
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Rainelle
Housing in Rainelle
- Housing units755 plus or minus 172
- Occupied units661 plus or minus 164
- Vacant units94 plus or minus 51
- Vacancy rate12.5 percent plus or minus 6.1
- Owner occupied442 plus or minus 135
- Renter occupied219 plus or minus 74
- Ownership rate66.9 percent
- Median owner-occupied home value$80,800 plus or minus $20,354
- Median gross rent, monthly$663
- Annual rent as a share of median income22.3 percent plus or minus 8.5
- Single family units573 plus or minus 158
- Share single family75.9 percent
- Units in buildings of two or more125 plus or minus 54
- Share in buildings of two or more16.6 percent plus or minus 6.0
- Mobile homes57 plus or minus 36
- Median year structure built1971
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Rainelle
How Rainelle gets to work
- Workers 16 and over who commute489 plus or minus 228
- Commuting under 15 minutes169 plus or minus 102
- Share commuting under 15 minutes34.6 percent plus or minus 13.2
- Commuting 30 minutes or more254 plus or minus 146
- Share commuting 30 minutes or more51.9 percent plus or minus 17.5
- Drove alone79.1 percent plus or minus 23.5
- Carpooled12.2 percent plus or minus 5.9
- Public transport0.0 percent
- Walked5.1 percent plus or minus 5.0
- Worked from home3.6 percent plus or minus 2.9
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Rainelle
SBA 7(a) lending to Rainelle borrowers
- Approvals1
- Gross approval$50,000
- Average approval$50,000
- Median approval$50,000
- Ninetieth percentile approval$50,000
- Largest approval$50,000
- Jobs supported8
- Jobs per approval8.0
- Loans with a final outcome0
- Paid in full0
- Charged off0
- Median term120 months
- Share on real estate terms of 20 years or more0.0 percent
- Share to franchises0.0 percent
- Distinct lenders1
- Distinct industries by NAICS1
A charge-off rate is not published here. only 0 resolved loans, too few to publish a rate, and a rate over that few outcomes would move several points on one loan.
US Small Business Administration, 7(a) FOIA release, FY2020 to FY2026 year to date, as of 2026-06-30.
Greenbrier County, not Rainelle
Greenbrier County context, not Rainelle figures
These are Greenbrier County figures. There is no place level equivalent published for any of them, so they are shown as the county backdrop and never as Rainelle measurements.
- Establishments in Greenbrier County888
- Employment at those establishments, Greenbrier County10,528
- Covered employment, Greenbrier County12,789
- Average annual pay, Greenbrier County$44,155
- Average weekly wage, Greenbrier County$849
- Housing units permitted, Greenbrier County69
- Of those, single family, Greenbrier County69
- County product, 2024, Greenbrier County$1,454,061,000
- County product change over the prior year, Greenbrier County0.5 percent
- Average income of an arriving household, Greenbrier County$84,043
Every figure in this section is published for Greenbrier County as a whole and is not a measurement of Rainelle. It is here because a county backdrop is what a credit committee reads a place against, and it is labelled so that it can never be quoted as the place's own.
US Census Bureau, County Business Patterns, 2023. US Bureau of Labor Statistics, Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages, 2024 annual averages. US Census Bureau, Building Permits Survey, 2024 annual. US Bureau of Economic Analysis, Regional, table CAGDP2, CAGDP2, through 2024. US Internal Revenue Service, Statistics of Income county migration flows, 2021 to 2022 filing years.
Coverage
What this page does not hold.
Every item below could be filled with a plausible figure. None of them is. On a page a lender may read, a number that cannot be traced is worse than an absence, so the absences are named.
- This place is not listed as a community in the FEMA Community Status Book, so no NFIP participation or CRS class is shown.
- Parcel level detail, zoning and flood zone at an address are resolved in the platform, not on this page.
SBA figures count approvals to borrowers whose address is in the place. They are not approvals for projects inside the place boundary: the tape records a borrower city and a project county, and those can differ.
Common questions
Rainelle questions, answered from the record.
How many people live in Rainelle, West Virginia?
1,458, in 661 households. Rainelle town covers 1.11 square miles of land, which is 1,310 people per square mile. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
What county is Rainelle in?
Greenbrier County, which holds 100.0 percent of the place by area. Source: US Census Bureau, cartographic boundary file, places, 2024 vintage.
What is the median household income in Rainelle?
$35,625. The median owner-occupied home is valued at $80,800. Median gross rent is $663 per month. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
How much SBA lending goes to Rainelle businesses?
1 7(a) approvals totalling $50,000, across 1 lenders, median approval $50,000. These count approvals to borrowers whose address is in Rainelle, not projects sited inside the place boundary, and they are approvals recorded in the release rather than loans disbursed.
Do SBA loans to Rainelle borrowers get paid back?
No rate is published for Rainelle. only 0 resolved loans, too few to publish a rate, and a percentage over that few outcomes would move several points on a single loan. The counts are shown instead.
Are the county figures on this page Rainelle figures?
No, and they are labelled so. County Business Patterns, QCEW, the Building Permits Survey, BEA product and IRS migration are published for Greenbrier County as a whole and there is no place level equivalent. They appear in one clearly marked section as context and are never presented as measurements of Rainelle.
Is zoning published for Rainelle?
Not yet. The zoning layer is in build. Nothing on this page presents parcel level zoning.
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