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Bluefield city, West Virginia: commercial real estate data.
Bluefield city is a Census city of 9,387 people across 8.97 square miles of land, in Mercer County. Median household income is $49,375, 65.1 percent of occupied homes are owned, and the SBA record carries 6 7(a) approvals to borrowers here worth $4.2 m.
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Bluefield
What Bluefield is
- Census place typecity
- Land area8.97 sq mi
- Water area0 sq mi
- Population per square mile of land1,046
- County holding the largest share of its areaMercer 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.
Bluefield
How many people live in Bluefield
- Population9,387
- Median age45.0
- Population under 181,901 plus or minus 385
- Share under 1820.3 percent plus or minus 4.1
- Population 65 and over2,061
- Share 65 and over22.0 percent
- Households4,027
- Family households2,552
- Share of households that are families63.4 percent
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Bluefield
Income and work in Bluefield
- Median household income$49,375 plus or minus $12,534
- Per capita income$30,230
- Civilian labor force4,197
- Employed4,011
- Unemployed186 plus or minus 113
- Unemployment rate4.4 percent plus or minus 2.7
- Adults 25 and over6,627
- Adults 25 and over with a high school diploma or higher90.1 percent
- Adults 25 and over with a bachelor degree or higher30.8 percent
- Adults 25 and over with a graduate degree10.4 percent plus or minus 3.2
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Bluefield
Housing in Bluefield
- Housing units4,941
- Occupied units4,027
- Vacant units914 plus or minus 218
- Vacancy rate18.5 percent plus or minus 4.3
- Owner occupied2,620
- Renter occupied1,407
- Ownership rate65.1 percent
- Median owner-occupied home value$105,400
- Median gross rent, monthly$804
- Annual rent as a share of median income19.5 percent plus or minus 5.9
- Single family units3,911
- Share single family79.2 percent
- Units in buildings of two or more871 plus or minus 240
- Share in buildings of two or more17.6 percent plus or minus 4.7
- Mobile homes159 plus or minus 101
- Median year structure built1953
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Bluefield
How Bluefield gets to work
- Workers 16 and over who commute3,516
- Commuting under 15 minutes1,353 plus or minus 360
- Share commuting under 15 minutes38.5 percent plus or minus 9.4
- Commuting 30 minutes or more1,081 plus or minus 286
- Share commuting 30 minutes or more30.7 percent plus or minus 7.5
- Drove alone74.7 percent
- Carpooled10.2 percent plus or minus 4.4
- Public transport1.0 percent plus or minus 1.2
- Walked1.1 percent plus or minus 1.2
- Worked from home10.5 percent plus or minus 4.3
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Bluefield
SBA 7(a) lending to Bluefield borrowers
- Approvals6
- Gross approval$4,247,700
- Average approval$707,950
- Median approval$302,400
- Ninetieth percentile approval$2,665,000
- Largest approval$2,665,000
- Jobs supported21
- Jobs per approval3.5
- Loans with a final outcome1
- Paid in full1
- Charged off0
- Median term120 months
- Share on real estate terms of 20 years or more16.7 percent
- Share to franchises0.0 percent
- Distinct lenders5
- Distinct industries by NAICS5
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.
Mercer County, not Bluefield
Mercer County context, not Bluefield figures
These are Mercer County figures. There is no place level equivalent published for any of them, so they are shown as the county backdrop and never as Bluefield measurements.
- Establishments in Mercer County1,154
- Employment at those establishments, Mercer County17,231
- Covered employment, Mercer County19,314
- Average annual pay, Mercer County$50,193
- Average weekly wage, Mercer County$965
- Housing units permitted, Mercer County9
- Of those, single family, Mercer County4
- County product, 2024, Mercer County$2,336,526,000
- County product change over the prior year, Mercer County3.2 percent
- Average income of an arriving household, Mercer County$38,919
Every figure in this section is published for Mercer County as a whole and is not a measurement of Bluefield. 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
Bluefield questions, answered from the record.
How many people live in Bluefield, West Virginia?
9,387, in 4,027 households. Bluefield city covers 8.97 square miles of land, which is 1,046 people per square mile. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
What county is Bluefield in?
Mercer 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 Bluefield?
$49,375. The median owner-occupied home is valued at $105,400. Median gross rent is $804 per month. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
How much SBA lending goes to Bluefield businesses?
6 7(a) approvals totalling $4.2 m, across 5 lenders, median approval $302,400. These count approvals to borrowers whose address is in Bluefield, not projects sited inside the place boundary, and they are approvals recorded in the release rather than loans disbursed.
Do SBA loans to Bluefield borrowers get paid back?
No rate is published for Bluefield. 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 Bluefield figures?
No, and they are labelled so. County Business Patterns, QCEW, the Building Permits Survey, BEA product and IRS migration are published for Mercer 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 Bluefield.
Is zoning published for Bluefield?
Not yet. The zoning layer is in build. Nothing on this page presents parcel level zoning.
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