Logan County, West Virginia: commercial real estate data.

Logan County

How many people live in Logan County

• Population, American Community Survey 2020-202431,418
• Households12,760
• Average household size2.46
• Median household income$49,723
• Median age44.1
• Median gross rent$710 per month
• Median owner-occupied home value$103,400
• Home value to household income2.1 times
• Annual rent as a share of median income17.1 percent
• Adults 25 and over with a bachelor degree or higher14.7 percent
• Adults 25 and over with a graduate degree6.7 percent
• Adults 25 and over22,624
• Population under 186,528
• Share under 1820.8 percent
• Population 65 and over7,046
• Share 65 and over22.4 percent
• Working age population, 18 to 6417,844
• Civilian labor force11,609
• Unemployment rate8.5 percent
• Labor force participation, adults 18 and over46.6 percent
• Rank by population among West Virginia counties17th of 55
• Rank by population among US county-equivalents, Puerto Rico included1434th of 3,222

Logan County is the 17th largest of 55 West Virginia counties by population. A median home costs 2.1 times median household income, which is affordable by national standards. Residents 65 and over outnumber those under 18, at 22.4 percent against 20.8 percent, which points demand at health care, services and single story product rather than schools.

US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, 2020-2024 5-year.

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Where are people moving to Logan County from?

• Tax returns filed by households arriving299
• People arriving, from those returns564
• Tax returns filed by households leaving406
• Net household movement-107
• Adjusted gross income arriving$11.8 m
• Net adjusted gross income movement$-5.8 m
• Average income of an arriving household$39,575
• Average income of a leaving household$43,352
• Largest single originMingo County (35 households)
• Largest single destinationKanawha County (62 households)

Households arriving report $3,777 less average income than households leaving, which drains spending power even where headcount holds up. The largest single source of arrivals is Mingo County, which is the catchment a retail or multifamily study should look at first.

US Internal Revenue Service, Statistics of Income county migration flows, 2021 to 2022 filing years.

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Employment by industry in Logan County

• Covered employment, annual average10,504
• Establishments reporting1,008
• Average annual pay$56,655
• Average weekly wage$1,090
• Health care and social assistance, employment1,909
• Health care and social assistance, average annual pay$53,645
• Retail trade, employment1,492
• Retail trade, average annual pay$35,077
• Accommodation and food services, employment922
• Accommodation and food services, average annual pay$18,898
• Other services, except public administration, employment510
• Other services, except public administration, average annual pay$42,981
• Manufacturing, employment375
• Administrative and support and waste management services, employment330

Health care and social assistance is the largest private sector at 1,909 jobs, 18.2 percent of covered employment.

US Bureau of Labor Statistics, Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages, 2024 annual averages.

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Building permits in Logan County

• Housing units authorized by permit, 20241
• Declared construction value permitted$395,000
• Single family units authorized1
• Multifamily units authorized0
• Multifamily share of units0.0 percent
• Average declared value per unit$395,000
• Units authorized per 1,000 households0.1

Single-family homes are 100.0 percent of units authorized, so the pipeline is predominantly single-family.

US Census Bureau, Building Permits Survey, 2024 annual.

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SBA loan default and charge-off rates in Logan County

Do SBA loans in Logan County get paid back?

• Loans with a final outcome recorded1
• Paid in full0
• Charged off1
• Status: Exempt from disclosure5
• Status: Charged off1
• Status: Cancelled2

Only 1 loan has reached a final outcome, fewer than the 30 a charge-off rate needs, so no rate is published.

Compare against the national and state SBA charge-off rates, computed the same way over resolved loans only.

US Small Business Administration, 7(a) FOIA release, FY2020 to FY2026 year to date, as of 2026-06-30.

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How large is Logan County?

• Land area454 sq mi
• Rank by land area among West Virginia counties22nd of 55
• Width, east to west31.9 mi
• Height, north to south26.4 mi
• Geographies sharing a boundary4
• Residents per square mile of land69
• Establishments per square mile1.31

US Census Bureau county boundary geometry, TIGER, adjacency computed from shared boundary vertices, TIGER county boundaries. US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, 2020-2024 5-year. US Census Bureau, County Business Patterns, 2023.

Feasibility studies

When a Logan County site needs a document a lender will accept.

The same data layer behind this page is the one the studies are written from. A study for a Logan County site starts with the figures you are reading, carrying the same source and period into the credit file.

• Population, American Community Survey 2020-202431,418
• Households12,760
• Average household size2.46
• Median household income$49,723
• Median age44.1

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Cities and places in Logan.

30 Census places lie wholly or partly in Logan County. All 30 carry enough published place level data for a page of their own and are linked.

A further 1 of the county's 8 SBA 7(a) approvals are to borrowers in cities that match no Census place in Logan County, the largest being Davin (1). Those are postal cities, unincorporated areas and cities outside the county, so no place row claims them; they are counted in the county total above.