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Gary city, West Virginia: commercial real estate data.
Gary city is a Census city of 861 people across 0.84 square miles of land, in McDowell County. Median household income is $41,603, 95.9 percent of occupied homes are owned.
48 sourced place values · tier FULL · 6 sections · underlined figures are computed by MMCG Analytics, not published by the agency
Gary
What Gary is
- Census place typecity
- Land area0.84 sq mi
- Water area0.03 sq mi
- Population per square mile of land1,024 plus or minus 321
- County holding the largest share of its areaMcDowell 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.
Gary
How many people live in Gary
- Population861 plus or minus 270
- Median age39.9 plus or minus 22.0
- Population under 18148 plus or minus 94
- Share under 1817.2 percent plus or minus 9.6
- Population 65 and over186 plus or minus 80
- Share 65 and over21.6 percent plus or minus 6.3
- Households267 plus or minus 100
- Family households111 plus or minus 48
- Share of households that are families41.6 percent plus or minus 9.0
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Gary
Income and work in Gary
- Median household income$41,603
- Per capita income$24,443 plus or minus $6,008
- Civilian labor force349 plus or minus 169
- Employed346 plus or minus 169
- Unemployed3 plus or minus 5
- Unemployment rate0.9 percent plus or minus 1.4
- Adults 25 and over625 plus or minus 198
- Adults 25 and over with a high school diploma or higher85.9 percent plus or minus 38.3
- Adults 25 and over with a bachelor degree or higher11.0 percent plus or minus 10.2
- Adults 25 and over with a graduate degree0.0 percent
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Gary
Housing in Gary
- Housing units489 plus or minus 108
- Occupied units267 plus or minus 100
- Vacant units222 plus or minus 64
- Vacancy rate45.4 percent
- Owner occupied256 plus or minus 98
- Renter occupied11 plus or minus 19
- Ownership rate95.9 percent
- Median owner-occupied home value$50,900 plus or minus $12,723
- Single family units447 plus or minus 110
- Share single family91.4 percent
- Units in buildings of two or more0
- Share in buildings of two or more0.0 percent
- Mobile homes42 plus or minus 29
- Median year structure built1938
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Gary
How Gary gets to work
- Workers 16 and over who commute344 plus or minus 169
- Commuting under 15 minutes62 plus or minus 45
- Share commuting under 15 minutes18.0 percent plus or minus 9.6
- Commuting 30 minutes or more162 plus or minus 110
- Share commuting 30 minutes or more47.1 percent plus or minus 22.0
- Drove alone99.7 percent
- Carpooled0.0 percent
- Public transport0.0 percent
- Walked0.3 percent plus or minus 1.4
- Worked from home0.0 percent
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
McDowell County, not Gary
McDowell County context, not Gary figures
These are McDowell County figures. There is no place level equivalent published for any of them, so they are shown as the county backdrop and never as Gary measurements.
- Establishments in McDowell County213
- Employment at those establishments, McDowell County2,253
- Covered employment, McDowell County3,934
- Average annual pay, McDowell County$56,048
- Average weekly wage, McDowell County$1,078
- Housing units permitted, McDowell County7
- Of those, single family, McDowell County7
- County product, 2024, McDowell County$727,825,000
- County product change over the prior year, McDowell County5.1 percent
- Average income of an arriving household, McDowell County$27,261
Every figure in this section is published for McDowell County as a whole and is not a measurement of Gary. 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.
- No SBA approvals are recorded to a borrower address in this place in either FOIA release.
- 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
Gary questions, answered from the record.
How many people live in Gary, West Virginia?
861, in 267 households. Gary city covers 0.84 square miles of land, which is 1,024 people per square mile. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
What county is Gary in?
McDowell 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 Gary?
$41,603. The median owner-occupied home is valued at $50,900. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Are the county figures on this page Gary figures?
No, and they are labelled so. County Business Patterns, QCEW, the Building Permits Survey, BEA product and IRS migration are published for McDowell 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 Gary.
Is zoning published for Gary?
Not yet. The zoning layer is in build. Nothing on this page presents parcel level zoning.