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Wayne town, West Virginia: commercial real estate data.
Wayne town is a Census town of 1,675 people across 1.18 square miles of land, in Wayne County. Median household income is $27,159, 45.5 percent of occupied homes are owned.
50 sourced place values · tier FULL · 6 sections · underlined figures are computed by MMCG Analytics, not published by the agency
Wayne
What Wayne is
- Census place typetown
- Land area1.18 sq mi
- Water area0 sq mi
- Population per square mile of land1,419 plus or minus 417
- County holding the largest share of its areaWayne 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.
Wayne
How many people live in Wayne
- Population1,675 plus or minus 492
- Median age39.3
- Population under 18450 plus or minus 185
- Share under 1826.9 percent plus or minus 7.7
- Population 65 and over290 plus or minus 91
- Share 65 and over17.3 percent
- Households657
- Family households341 plus or minus 108
- Share of households that are families51.9 percent plus or minus 12.8
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Wayne
Income and work in Wayne
- Median household income$27,159 plus or minus $16,759
- Per capita income$20,624 plus or minus $4,863
- Civilian labor force639 plus or minus 216
- Employed604 plus or minus 211
- Unemployed35 plus or minus 34
- Unemployment rate5.5 percent plus or minus 5.0
- Adults 25 and over1,130 plus or minus 307
- Adults 25 and over with a high school diploma or higher76.6 percent plus or minus 26.9
- Adults 25 and over with a bachelor degree or higher6.1 percent plus or minus 3.5
- Adults 25 and over with a graduate degree2.8 percent plus or minus 2.5
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Wayne
Housing in Wayne
- Housing units815
- Occupied units657
- Vacant units158 plus or minus 83
- Vacancy rate19.4 percent plus or minus 9.5
- Owner occupied299 plus or minus 103
- Renter occupied358 plus or minus 114
- Ownership rate45.5 percent plus or minus 12.8
- Median owner-occupied home value$82,100
- Median gross rent, monthly$789 plus or minus $192
- Annual rent as a share of median income34.9 percent plus or minus 23.1
- Single family units516 plus or minus 122
- Share single family63.3 percent
- Units in buildings of two or more168 plus or minus 65
- Share in buildings of two or more20.6 percent plus or minus 7.0
- Mobile homes131 plus or minus 73
- Median year structure built1975
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Wayne
How Wayne gets to work
- Workers 16 and over who commute516 plus or minus 160
- Commuting under 15 minutes234 plus or minus 118
- Share commuting under 15 minutes45.3 percent plus or minus 18.1
- Commuting 30 minutes or more198 plus or minus 89
- Share commuting 30 minutes or more38.4 percent plus or minus 12.5
- Drove alone84.3 percent
- Carpooled9.4 percent plus or minus 9.0
- Public transport0.0 percent
- Walked1.9 percent plus or minus 3.1
- Worked from home4.4 percent plus or minus 5.0
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Wayne County, not Wayne
Wayne County context, not Wayne figures
These are Wayne County figures. There is no place level equivalent published for any of them, so they are shown as the county backdrop and never as Wayne measurements.
- Establishments in Wayne County434
- Employment at those establishments, Wayne County6,343
- Covered employment, Wayne County8,494
- Average annual pay, Wayne County$59,886
- Average weekly wage, Wayne County$1,152
- Housing units permitted, Wayne County68
- Of those, single family, Wayne County68
- County product, 2024, Wayne County$1,347,424,000
- County product change over the prior year, Wayne County7.3 percent
- Average income of an arriving household, Wayne County$41,494
Every figure in this section is published for Wayne County as a whole and is not a measurement of Wayne. 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.
- 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
Wayne questions, answered from the record.
How many people live in Wayne, West Virginia?
1,675, in 657 households. Wayne town covers 1.18 square miles of land, which is 1,419 people per square mile. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
What county is Wayne in?
Wayne 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 Wayne?
$27,159. The median owner-occupied home is valued at $82,100. Median gross rent is $789 per month. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Are the county figures on this page Wayne figures?
No, and they are labelled so. County Business Patterns, QCEW, the Building Permits Survey, BEA product and IRS migration are published for Wayne 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 Wayne.
Is zoning published for Wayne?
Not yet. The zoning layer is in build. Nothing on this page presents parcel level zoning.
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