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Wheeling city, West Virginia: commercial real estate data.
Wheeling city is a Census city of 26,350 people across 13.60 square miles of land, in Ohio County. Median household income is $48,590, 59.8 percent of occupied homes are owned, and the SBA record carries 28 7(a) approvals to borrowers here worth $11.2 m.
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Wheeling
What Wheeling is
- Census place typecity
- Land area13.6 sq mi
- Water area2.28 sq mi
- Population per square mile of land1,938
- County holding the largest share of its areaOhio County, 99.0 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.
Wheeling
How many people live in Wheeling
- Population26,350
- Median age45.4
- Population under 184,763
- Share under 1818.1 percent
- Population 65 and over6,812
- Share 65 and over25.9 percent
- Households12,614
- Family households6,325
- Share of households that are families50.1 percent
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Wheeling
Income and work in Wheeling
- Median household income$48,590
- Per capita income$36,509
- Civilian labor force12,344
- Employed11,545
- Unemployed799 plus or minus 193
- Unemployment rate6.5 percent plus or minus 1.5
- Adults 25 and over19,401
- Adults 25 and over with a high school diploma or higher92.4 percent
- Adults 25 and over with a bachelor degree or higher34.1 percent
- Adults 25 and over with a graduate degree14.1 percent
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Wheeling
Housing in Wheeling
- Housing units14,569
- Occupied units12,614
- Vacant units1,955
- Vacancy rate13.4 percent
- Owner occupied7,546
- Renter occupied5,068
- Ownership rate59.8 percent
- Median owner-occupied home value$146,500
- Median gross rent, monthly$794
- Annual rent as a share of median income19.6 percent
- Single family units10,092
- Share single family69.3 percent
- Units in buildings of two or more4,417
- Share in buildings of two or more30.3 percent
- Mobile homes60 plus or minus 36
- Median year structure built1949
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Wheeling
How Wheeling gets to work
- Workers 16 and over who commute10,490
- Commuting under 15 minutes4,898
- Share commuting under 15 minutes46.7 percent
- Commuting 30 minutes or more2,089
- Share commuting 30 minutes or more19.9 percent
- Drove alone78.3 percent
- Carpooled7.2 percent plus or minus 2.1
- Public transport2.2 percent plus or minus 0.9
- Walked4.0 percent plus or minus 1.1
- Worked from home6.9 percent plus or minus 1.4
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Wheeling
SBA 7(a) lending to Wheeling borrowers
- Approvals28
- Gross approval$11,168,100
- Average approval$398,861
- Median approval$150,000
- Ninetieth percentile approval$1,050,000
- Largest approval$4,920,000
- Jobs supported246
- Jobs per approval8.8
- Loans with a final outcome4
- Paid in full4
- Charged off0
- Median term120 months
- Share on real estate terms of 20 years or more7.1 percent
- Share to franchises10.7 percent
- Distinct lenders14
- Distinct industries by NAICS21
A charge-off rate is not published here. only 4 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.
Wheeling
SBA 504 lending to Wheeling borrowers
- Approvals4
- Gross approval$1,947,000
- Average approval$486,750
- Median approval$557,000
- Largest approval$966,000
- Jobs supported24
- Loans with a final outcome3
- Charged off1
- Median term240 months
- Distinct CDCs1
US Small Business Administration, 504 FOIA release, FY2010 to FY2026 year to date, as of 2026-06-30.
Ohio County, not Wheeling
Ohio County context, not Wheeling figures
These are Ohio County figures. There is no place level equivalent published for any of them, so they are shown as the county backdrop and never as Wheeling measurements.
- Establishments in Ohio County1,320
- Employment at those establishments, Ohio County23,642
- Covered employment, Ohio County27,100
- Average annual pay, Ohio County$55,864
- Average weekly wage, Ohio County$1,074
- Housing units permitted, Ohio County0
- Of those, single family, Ohio County0
- County product, 2024, Ohio County$5,056,663,000
- County product change over the prior year, Ohio County5.8 percent
- Average income of an arriving household, Ohio County$50,602
Every figure in this section is published for Ohio County as a whole and is not a measurement of Wheeling. 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
Wheeling questions, answered from the record.
How many people live in Wheeling, West Virginia?
26,350, in 12,614 households. Wheeling city covers 13.60 square miles of land, which is 1,938 people per square mile. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
What county is Wheeling in?
Ohio County, which holds 99.0 percent of the place by area. Source: US Census Bureau, cartographic boundary file, places, 2024 vintage.
What is the median household income in Wheeling?
$48,590. The median owner-occupied home is valued at $146,500. Median gross rent is $794 per month. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
How much SBA lending goes to Wheeling businesses?
28 7(a) approvals totalling $11.2 m, across 14 lenders, median approval $150,000, plus 4 504 approvals worth $1.9 m. These count approvals to borrowers whose address is in Wheeling, not projects sited inside the place boundary, and they are approvals recorded in the release rather than loans disbursed.
Do SBA loans to Wheeling borrowers get paid back?
No rate is published for Wheeling. only 4 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 Wheeling figures?
No, and they are labelled so. County Business Patterns, QCEW, the Building Permits Survey, BEA product and IRS migration are published for Ohio 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 Wheeling.
Is zoning published for Wheeling?
Not yet. The zoning layer is in build. Nothing on this page presents parcel level zoning.
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