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Lost Creek town, West Virginia: commercial real estate data.
Lost Creek town is a Census town of 302 people across 0.97 square miles of land, in Harrison County. Median household income is $78,571, 70.0 percent of occupied homes are owned, and the SBA record carries 3 7(a) approvals to borrowers here worth $335,000.
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Lost Creek
What Lost Creek is
- Census place typetown
- Land area0.97 sq mi
- Water area0 sq mi
- Population per square mile of land311 plus or minus 121
- County holding the largest share of its areaHarrison 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.
Lost Creek
How many people live in Lost Creek
- Population302 plus or minus 117
- Median age43.8 plus or minus 19.4
- Population under 1834 plus or minus 29
- Share under 1811.3 percent plus or minus 8.5
- Population 65 and over39 plus or minus 26
- Share 65 and over12.9 percent plus or minus 7.1
- Households120 plus or minus 44
- Family households78 plus or minus 36
- Share of households that are families65.0 percent plus or minus 18.2
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Lost Creek
Income and work in Lost Creek
- Median household income$78,571 plus or minus $32,888
- Per capita income$36,279 plus or minus $10,295
- Civilian labor force206 plus or minus 93
- Employed189 plus or minus 82
- Unemployed17 plus or minus 22
- Unemployment rate8.3 percent plus or minus 10.0
- Adults 25 and over191 plus or minus 73
- Adults 25 and over with a high school diploma or higher92.1 percent plus or minus 47.6
- Adults 25 and over with a bachelor degree or higher33.0 percent plus or minus 18.8
- Adults 25 and over with a graduate degree7.3 percent plus or minus 10.4
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Lost Creek
Housing in Lost Creek
- Housing units143 plus or minus 50
- Occupied units120 plus or minus 44
- Vacant units23 plus or minus 17
- Vacancy rate16.1 percent plus or minus 10.5
- Owner occupied84 plus or minus 36
- Renter occupied36 plus or minus 28
- Ownership rate70.0 percent plus or minus 15.5
- Median owner-occupied home value$131,800 plus or minus $81,484
- Single family units105 plus or minus 47
- Share single family73.4 percent plus or minus 20.3
- Units in buildings of two or more0
- Share in buildings of two or more0.0 percent
- Mobile homes38 plus or minus 26
- Median year structure built1967
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Lost Creek
How Lost Creek gets to work
- Workers 16 and over who commute179 plus or minus 77
- Commuting under 15 minutes24 plus or minus 25
- Share commuting under 15 minutes13.4 percent plus or minus 12.8
- Commuting 30 minutes or more38 plus or minus 28
- Share commuting 30 minutes or more21.2 percent plus or minus 12.7
- Drove alone87.8 percent
- Carpooled3.7 percent plus or minus 3.9
- Public transport0.0 percent
- Walked3.2 percent plus or minus 4.6
- Worked from home5.3 percent plus or minus 8.1
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Lost Creek
SBA 7(a) lending to Lost Creek borrowers
- Approvals3
- Gross approval$335,000
- Average approval$111,667
- Median approval$100,000
- Ninetieth percentile approval$180,000
- Largest approval$180,000
- Jobs supported5
- Jobs per approval1.7
- Loans with a final outcome1
- Paid in full1
- Charged off0
- Median term120 months
- Share on real estate terms of 20 years or more0.0 percent
- Share to franchises0.0 percent
- Distinct lenders2
- Distinct industries by NAICS2
A charge-off rate is not published here. only 1 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.
Harrison County, not Lost Creek
Harrison County context, not Lost Creek figures
These are Harrison County figures. There is no place level equivalent published for any of them, so they are shown as the county backdrop and never as Lost Creek measurements.
- Establishments in Harrison County1,781
- Employment at those establishments, Harrison County29,386
- Covered employment, Harrison County37,098
- Average annual pay, Harrison County$64,286
- Average weekly wage, Harrison County$1,236
- Housing units permitted, Harrison County83
- Of those, single family, Harrison County74
- County product, 2024, Harrison County$6,047,637,000
- County product change over the prior year, Harrison County1.7 percent
- Average income of an arriving household, Harrison County$57,971
Every figure in this section is published for Harrison County as a whole and is not a measurement of Lost Creek. 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.
- No median gross rent is published for this place.
- 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
Lost Creek questions, answered from the record.
How many people live in Lost Creek, West Virginia?
302, in 120 households. Lost Creek town covers 0.97 square miles of land, which is 311 people per square mile. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
What county is Lost Creek in?
Harrison 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 Lost Creek?
$78,571. The median owner-occupied home is valued at $131,800. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
How much SBA lending goes to Lost Creek businesses?
3 7(a) approvals totalling $335,000, across 2 lenders, median approval $100,000. These count approvals to borrowers whose address is in Lost Creek, not projects sited inside the place boundary, and they are approvals recorded in the release rather than loans disbursed.
Do SBA loans to Lost Creek borrowers get paid back?
No rate is published for Lost Creek. only 1 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 Lost Creek figures?
No, and they are labelled so. County Business Patterns, QCEW, the Building Permits Survey, BEA product and IRS migration are published for Harrison 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 Lost Creek.
Is zoning published for Lost Creek?
Not yet. The zoning layer is in build. Nothing on this page presents parcel level zoning.