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Lester town, West Virginia: commercial real estate data.
Lester town is a Census town of 377 people across 0.50 square miles of land, in Raleigh County. 74.3 percent of occupied homes are owned.
48 sourced place values · tier FULL · 6 sections · underlined figures are computed by MMCG Analytics, not published by the agency
This is a small place, and the figures below carry wide margins.
The American Community Survey reaches Lester through a sample, not a count, and in a place this size that sample is thin. The population estimate here is 377 with a margin of error of plus or minus 194, which is 51.5 percent of the estimate itself. Every figure whose margin reaches 20 percent is printed with that margin beside it, so you can see the width of each one rather than having to assume it.
Nothing has been removed or adjusted. These are the published federal estimates, shown with the uncertainty the Census publishes alongside them.
Lester
What Lester is
- Census place typetown
- Land area0.5 sq mi
- Water area0 sq mi
- Population per square mile of land752 plus or minus 387
- County holding the largest share of its areaRaleigh 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.
Lester
How many people live in Lester
- Population377 plus or minus 194
- Median age56.0 plus or minus 19.9
- Population under 1890 plus or minus 63
- Share under 1823.9 percent plus or minus 11.5
- Population 65 and over110 plus or minus 65
- Share 65 and over29.2 percent plus or minus 8.2
- Households152 plus or minus 70
- Family households88 plus or minus 60
- Share of households that are families57.9 percent plus or minus 29.1
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Lester
Income and work in Lester
- Per capita income$20,782 plus or minus $12,172
- Civilian labor force89 plus or minus 72
- Employed84 plus or minus 72
- Unemployed5 plus or minus 8
- Unemployment rate5.6 percent plus or minus 7.8
- Adults 25 and over260 plus or minus 131
- Adults 25 and over with a high school diploma or higher76.5 percent plus or minus 53.1
- Adults 25 and over with a bachelor degree or higher11.2 percent plus or minus 10.9
- Adults 25 and over with a graduate degree4.6 percent plus or minus 9.5
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Lester
Housing in Lester
- Housing units176 plus or minus 73
- Occupied units152 plus or minus 70
- Vacant units24 plus or minus 17
- Vacancy rate13.6 percent plus or minus 7.8
- Owner occupied113 plus or minus 65
- Renter occupied39 plus or minus 32
- Ownership rate74.3 percent plus or minus 25.6
- Median owner-occupied home value$89,400 plus or minus $55,265
- Median gross rent, monthly$850 plus or minus $325
- Single family units106 plus or minus 62
- Share single family60.2 percent plus or minus 24.9
- Units in buildings of two or more0
- Share in buildings of two or more0.0 percent
- Mobile homes70 plus or minus 38
- Median year structure built1983
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Lester
How Lester gets to work
- Workers 16 and over who commute78 plus or minus 69
- Commuting under 15 minutes4 plus or minus 14
- Share commuting under 15 minutes5.1 percent plus or minus 17.8
- Commuting 30 minutes or more42 plus or minus 63
- Share commuting 30 minutes or more53.8 percent plus or minus 65.0
- Drove alone89.3 percent plus or minus 26.4
- Carpooled3.6 percent plus or minus 6.5
- Public transport0.0 percent
- Walked0.0 percent
- Worked from home7.1 percent plus or minus 10.2
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Raleigh County, not Lester
Raleigh County context, not Lester figures
These are Raleigh County figures. There is no place level equivalent published for any of them, so they are shown as the county backdrop and never as Lester measurements.
- Establishments in Raleigh County1,713
- Employment at those establishments, Raleigh County26,532
- Covered employment, Raleigh County32,322
- Average annual pay, Raleigh County$54,223
- Average weekly wage, Raleigh County$1,043
- Housing units permitted, Raleigh County41
- Of those, single family, Raleigh County41
- County product, 2024, Raleigh County$4,532,090,000
- County product change over the prior year, Raleigh County7.1 percent
- Average income of an arriving household, Raleigh County$55,274
Every figure in this section is published for Raleigh County as a whole and is not a measurement of Lester. 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.
- No SBA approvals are recorded to a borrower address in this place in either FOIA release.
- This place is not listed as a community in the FEMA Community Status Book, so no NFIP participation or CRS class is shown.
- The American Community Survey does not publish a median household income for this place, which happens where the sample is too small to support one.
- 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
Lester questions, answered from the record.
How many people live in Lester, West Virginia?
377, in 152 households. Lester town covers 0.50 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 Lester in?
Raleigh County, which holds 100.0 percent of the place by area. Source: US Census Bureau, cartographic boundary file, places, 2024 vintage.
Are the county figures on this page Lester figures?
No, and they are labelled so. County Business Patterns, QCEW, the Building Permits Survey, BEA product and IRS migration are published for Raleigh 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 Lester.
Is zoning published for Lester?
Not yet. The zoning layer is in build. Nothing on this page presents parcel level zoning.