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Peterstown town, West Virginia: commercial real estate data.
Peterstown town is a Census town of 594 people across 0.32 square miles of land, in Monroe County. Median household income is $38,750, 66.8 percent of occupied homes are owned, and the SBA record carries 2 7(a) approvals to borrowers here worth $1.6 m.
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Peterstown
What Peterstown is
- Census place typetown
- Land area0.32 sq mi
- Water area0 sq mi
- Population per square mile of land1,877 plus or minus 891
- County holding the largest share of its areaMonroe 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.
Peterstown
How many people live in Peterstown
- Population594 plus or minus 282
- Median age21.8 plus or minus 16.2
- Population under 18284 plus or minus 151
- Share under 1847.8 percent plus or minus 11.5
- Population 65 and over85 plus or minus 47
- Share 65 and over14.3 percent plus or minus 3.9
- Households196 plus or minus 72
- Family households87 plus or minus 46
- Share of households that are families44.4 percent plus or minus 16.9
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Peterstown
Income and work in Peterstown
- Median household income$38,750 plus or minus $20,191
- Per capita income$17,364 plus or minus $5,810
- Civilian labor force136 plus or minus 91
- Employed114 plus or minus 65
- Unemployed22 plus or minus 37
- Unemployment rate16.2 percent plus or minus 25.0
- Adults 25 and over289 plus or minus 121
- Adults 25 and over with a high school diploma or higher80.3 percent
- Adults 25 and over with a bachelor degree or higher8.7 percent plus or minus 9.8
- Adults 25 and over with a graduate degree2.8 percent plus or minus 5.2
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Peterstown
Housing in Peterstown
- Housing units251 plus or minus 84
- Occupied units196 plus or minus 72
- Vacant units55 plus or minus 43
- Vacancy rate21.9 percent plus or minus 15.5
- Owner occupied131 plus or minus 49
- Renter occupied65 plus or minus 54
- Ownership rate66.8 percent
- Median owner-occupied home value$116,800 plus or minus $25,903
- Median gross rent, monthly$621
- Annual rent as a share of median income19.2 percent plus or minus 10.4
- Single family units168 plus or minus 62
- Share single family66.9 percent
- Units in buildings of two or more65 plus or minus 60
- Share in buildings of two or more25.9 percent plus or minus 22.5
- Mobile homes18 plus or minus 24
- Median year structure built1963
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Peterstown
How Peterstown gets to work
- Workers 16 and over who commute109 plus or minus 66
- Commuting under 15 minutes52 plus or minus 53
- Share commuting under 15 minutes47.7 percent plus or minus 38.9
- Commuting 30 minutes or more37 plus or minus 30
- Share commuting 30 minutes or more33.9 percent plus or minus 17.8
- Drove alone89.5 percent plus or minus 23.4
- Carpooled6.1 percent plus or minus 8.0
- Public transport0.0 percent
- Walked0.0 percent
- Worked from home4.4 percent plus or minus 8.4
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Peterstown
SBA 7(a) lending to Peterstown borrowers
- Approvals2
- Gross approval$1,594,400
- Average approval$797,200
- Median approval$1,494,400
- Ninetieth percentile approval$1,494,400
- Largest approval$1,494,400
- Jobs supported100
- Jobs per approval50.0
- Loans with a final outcome0
- Paid in full0
- Charged off0
- Median term300 months
- Share on real estate terms of 20 years or more50.0 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.
Monroe County, not Peterstown
Monroe County context, not Peterstown figures
These are Monroe County figures. There is no place level equivalent published for any of them, so they are shown as the county backdrop and never as Peterstown measurements.
- Establishments in Monroe County171
- Employment at those establishments, Monroe County1,184
- Covered employment, Monroe County2,046
- Average annual pay, Monroe County$47,016
- Average weekly wage, Monroe County$904
- Housing units permitted, Monroe County0
- Of those, single family, Monroe County0
- County product, 2024, Monroe County$309,408,000
- County product change over the prior year, Monroe County8.1 percent
- Average income of an arriving household, Monroe County$53,113
Every figure in this section is published for Monroe County as a whole and is not a measurement of Peterstown. 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
Peterstown questions, answered from the record.
How many people live in Peterstown, West Virginia?
594, in 196 households. Peterstown town covers 0.32 square miles of land, which is 1,877 people per square mile. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
What county is Peterstown in?
Monroe 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 Peterstown?
$38,750. The median owner-occupied home is valued at $116,800. Median gross rent is $621 per month. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
How much SBA lending goes to Peterstown businesses?
2 7(a) approvals totalling $1.6 m, across 1 lenders, median approval $1,494,400. These count approvals to borrowers whose address is in Peterstown, not projects sited inside the place boundary, and they are approvals recorded in the release rather than loans disbursed.
Do SBA loans to Peterstown borrowers get paid back?
No rate is published for Peterstown. 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 Peterstown figures?
No, and they are labelled so. County Business Patterns, QCEW, the Building Permits Survey, BEA product and IRS migration are published for Monroe 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 Peterstown.
Is zoning published for Peterstown?
Not yet. The zoning layer is in build. Nothing on this page presents parcel level zoning.