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Masontown town, West Virginia: commercial real estate data.
Masontown town is a Census town of 518 people across 0.28 square miles of land, in Preston County. Median household income is $54,643, 84.8 percent of occupied homes are owned, and the SBA record carries 3 7(a) approvals to borrowers here worth $1.4 m.
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Masontown
What Masontown is
- Census place typetown
- Land area0.28 sq mi
- Water area0 sq mi
- Population per square mile of land1,863 plus or minus 823
- County holding the largest share of its areaPreston 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.
Masontown
How many people live in Masontown
- Population518 plus or minus 229
- Median age39.8 plus or minus 11.0
- Population under 18130 plus or minus 79
- Share under 1825.1 percent plus or minus 10.4
- Population 65 and over112 plus or minus 49
- Share 65 and over21.6 percent plus or minus 13.4
- Households230 plus or minus 84
- Family households115 plus or minus 51
- Share of households that are families50.0 percent plus or minus 12.6
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Masontown
Income and work in Masontown
- Median household income$54,643 plus or minus $26,791
- Per capita income$29,182
- Civilian labor force230 plus or minus 108
- Employed206 plus or minus 101
- Unemployed24 plus or minus 26
- Unemployment rate10.4 percent plus or minus 10.2
- Adults 25 and over352 plus or minus 127
- Adults 25 and over with a high school diploma or higher86.6 percent plus or minus 41.5
- Adults 25 and over with a bachelor degree or higher15.6 percent plus or minus 12.1
- Adults 25 and over with a graduate degree0.6 percent plus or minus 3.9
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Masontown
Housing in Masontown
- Housing units246 plus or minus 87
- Occupied units230 plus or minus 84
- Vacant units16 plus or minus 14
- Vacancy rate6.5 percent plus or minus 5.2
- Owner occupied195 plus or minus 75
- Renter occupied35 plus or minus 29
- Ownership rate84.8 percent
- Median owner-occupied home value$120,500 plus or minus $56,444
- Median gross rent, monthly$688 plus or minus $338
- Annual rent as a share of median income15.1 percent plus or minus 10.5
- Single family units185 plus or minus 74
- Share single family75.2 percent
- Units in buildings of two or more23 plus or minus 33
- Share in buildings of two or more9.3 percent plus or minus 13.0
- Mobile homes38 plus or minus 26
- Median year structure built1958
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Masontown
How Masontown gets to work
- Workers 16 and over who commute180 plus or minus 78
- Commuting under 15 minutes13 plus or minus 20
- Share commuting under 15 minutes7.2 percent plus or minus 10.6
- Commuting 30 minutes or more99 plus or minus 57
- Share commuting 30 minutes or more55.0 percent plus or minus 20.7
- Drove alone84.5 percent plus or minus 55.8
- Carpooled2.9 percent plus or minus 3.1
- Public transport0.0 percent
- Walked0.0 percent
- Worked from home12.6 percent plus or minus 13.7
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Masontown
SBA 7(a) lending to Masontown borrowers
- Approvals3
- Gross approval$1,410,000
- Average approval$470,000
- Median approval$400,000
- Ninetieth percentile approval$660,000
- Largest approval$660,000
- Jobs supported10
- Jobs per approval3.3
- Loans with a final outcome1
- Paid in full1
- Charged off0
- Median term240 months
- Share on real estate terms of 20 years or more66.7 percent
- Share to franchises0.0 percent
- Distinct lenders1
- Distinct industries by NAICS3
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.
Preston County, not Masontown
Preston County context, not Masontown figures
These are Preston County figures. There is no place level equivalent published for any of them, so they are shown as the county backdrop and never as Masontown measurements.
- Establishments in Preston County509
- Employment at those establishments, Preston County5,012
- Covered employment, Preston County7,208
- Average annual pay, Preston County$55,402
- Average weekly wage, Preston County$1,065
- Housing units permitted, Preston County1
- Of those, single family, Preston County1
- County product, 2024, Preston County$1,012,032,000
- County product change over the prior year, Preston County6.0 percent
- Average income of an arriving household, Preston County$55,925
Every figure in this section is published for Preston County as a whole and is not a measurement of Masontown. 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
Masontown questions, answered from the record.
How many people live in Masontown, West Virginia?
518, in 230 households. Masontown town covers 0.28 square miles of land, which is 1,863 people per square mile. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
What county is Masontown in?
Preston 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 Masontown?
$54,643. The median owner-occupied home is valued at $120,500. Median gross rent is $688 per month. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
How much SBA lending goes to Masontown businesses?
3 7(a) approvals totalling $1.4 m, across 1 lenders, median approval $400,000. These count approvals to borrowers whose address is in Masontown, not projects sited inside the place boundary, and they are approvals recorded in the release rather than loans disbursed.
Do SBA loans to Masontown borrowers get paid back?
No rate is published for Masontown. 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 Masontown figures?
No, and they are labelled so. County Business Patterns, QCEW, the Building Permits Survey, BEA product and IRS migration are published for Preston 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 Masontown.
Is zoning published for Masontown?
Not yet. The zoning layer is in build. Nothing on this page presents parcel level zoning.