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Summersville city, West Virginia: commercial real estate data.
Summersville city is a Census city of 3,373 people across 4.49 square miles of land, in Nicholas County. Median household income is $56,571, 67.7 percent of occupied homes are owned, and the SBA record carries 3 7(a) approvals to borrowers here worth $210,000.
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Summersville
What Summersville is
- Census place typecity
- Land area4.49 sq mi
- Water area0.04 sq mi
- Population per square mile of land752
- County holding the largest share of its areaNicholas 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.
Summersville
How many people live in Summersville
- Population3,373
- Median age56.3
- Population under 18677 plus or minus 266
- Share under 1820.1 percent plus or minus 7.9
- Population 65 and over1,282 plus or minus 333
- Share 65 and over38.0 percent plus or minus 9.9
- Households1,457
- Family households844
- Share of households that are families57.9 percent
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Summersville
Income and work in Summersville
- Median household income$56,571 plus or minus $16,154
- Per capita income$35,706 plus or minus $7,237
- Civilian labor force1,079
- Employed1,011
- Unemployed68 plus or minus 64
- Unemployment rate6.3 percent plus or minus 5.8
- Adults 25 and over2,492
- Adults 25 and over with a high school diploma or higher88.3 percent
- Adults 25 and over with a bachelor degree or higher34.8 percent plus or minus 14.8
- Adults 25 and over with a graduate degree24.6 percent plus or minus 14.1
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Summersville
Housing in Summersville
- Housing units1,696
- Occupied units1,457
- Vacant units239 plus or minus 137
- Vacancy rate14.1 percent plus or minus 7.8
- Owner occupied986 plus or minus 207
- Renter occupied471 plus or minus 174
- Ownership rate67.7 percent
- Median owner-occupied home value$230,000 plus or minus $56,694
- Median gross rent, monthly$395 plus or minus $234
- Annual rent as a share of median income8.4 percent plus or minus 5.5
- Single family units1,203
- Share single family70.9 percent
- Units in buildings of two or more306 plus or minus 125
- Share in buildings of two or more18.0 percent plus or minus 6.9
- Mobile homes187 plus or minus 103
- Median year structure built1979
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Summersville
How Summersville gets to work
- Workers 16 and over who commute915
- Commuting under 15 minutes555 plus or minus 192
- Share commuting under 15 minutes60.7 percent plus or minus 17.8
- Commuting 30 minutes or more264 plus or minus 126
- Share commuting 30 minutes or more28.9 percent plus or minus 12.8
- Drove alone76.9 percent plus or minus 17.5
- Carpooled11.7 percent plus or minus 9.0
- Public transport0.0 percent
- Walked2.0 percent plus or minus 3.0
- Worked from home9.5 percent plus or minus 9.3
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Summersville
SBA 7(a) lending to Summersville borrowers
- Approvals3
- Gross approval$210,000
- Average approval$70,000
- Median approval$50,000
- Ninetieth percentile approval$110,000
- Largest approval$110,000
- Jobs supported2
- Jobs per approval0.7
- Loans with a final outcome0
- Paid in full0
- Charged off0
- Median term120 months
- Share on real estate terms of 20 years or more33.3 percent
- Share to franchises0.0 percent
- Distinct lenders2
- Distinct industries by NAICS3
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.
Nicholas County, not Summersville
Nicholas County context, not Summersville figures
These are Nicholas County figures. There is no place level equivalent published for any of them, so they are shown as the county backdrop and never as Summersville measurements.
- Establishments in Nicholas County541
- Employment at those establishments, Nicholas County5,911
- Covered employment, Nicholas County7,321
- Average annual pay, Nicholas County$50,930
- Average weekly wage, Nicholas County$979
- Housing units permitted, Nicholas County2
- Of those, single family, Nicholas County2
- County product, 2024, Nicholas County$883,179,000
- County product change over the prior year, Nicholas County0.3 percent
- Average income of an arriving household, Nicholas County$41,247
Every figure in this section is published for Nicholas County as a whole and is not a measurement of Summersville. 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
Summersville questions, answered from the record.
How many people live in Summersville, West Virginia?
3,373, in 1,457 households. Summersville city covers 4.49 square miles of land, which is 752 people per square mile. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
What county is Summersville in?
Nicholas 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 Summersville?
$56,571. The median owner-occupied home is valued at $230,000. Median gross rent is $395 per month. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
How much SBA lending goes to Summersville businesses?
3 7(a) approvals totalling $210,000, across 2 lenders, median approval $50,000. These count approvals to borrowers whose address is in Summersville, not projects sited inside the place boundary, and they are approvals recorded in the release rather than loans disbursed.
Do SBA loans to Summersville borrowers get paid back?
No rate is published for Summersville. 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 Summersville figures?
No, and they are labelled so. County Business Patterns, QCEW, the Building Permits Survey, BEA product and IRS migration are published for Nicholas 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 Summersville.
Is zoning published for Summersville?
Not yet. The zoning layer is in build. Nothing on this page presents parcel level zoning.
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