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West Virginia county poverty rates (ACS 2020–2024)

West Virginia county profiles · Explore counties across states · 55 counties or county equivalents, including unavailable observations.

Poverty rate: Population for whom poverty status is determined. Estimate units: percent; MOE units: percentage points. Census variables: DP03_0128PE / DP03_0128PM.

Directly published West Virginia reference: 16.7% ± 0.4 pp. This is a Census state observation, not an average of county estimates. Download state references and source URLs.

Estimate order: usable estimates descend, with county name then FIPS breaking ties; unavailable estimates appear last and are never zero. This order is not a statistically established rank. Published MOEs use a 90% confidence level. Uncertainty intervals can overlap, limiting comparisons; adjacent estimates are not established as significantly different. No significance test is calculated. These period estimates do not establish trends or grant eligibility. Definitions, status flags and uncertainty.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, ACS 2020-2024 5-year Data Profiles (2024 endpoint), tables DP02, DP03 and DP05. Estimate and MOE variable IDs appear below. Retrieved 2026-10-19. Census Data Profiles source.

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West Virginia county poverty rates · ACS 2020–2024 5-year estimates, descending estimate order
County or equivalentFIPSEstimate (percent)Published 90% MOE (percentage points)Source status
McDowell County5404734.2%6.2 ppok
Calhoun County5401332.9%6.5 ppok
Mingo County5405932.4%3.8 ppok
Clay County5401526.4%7.2 ppok
Summers County5408923.8%3.7 ppok
Webster County5410123.3%5.1 ppok
Lincoln County5404323.2%4.1 ppok
Raleigh County5408122.8%2.8 ppok
Wyoming County5410922.6%4.3 ppok
Pocahontas County5407522.5%4.3 ppok
Greenbrier County5402521.8%3.0 ppok
Logan County5404521.8%3.4 ppok
Ritchie County5408521.6%4.7 ppok
Braxton County5400720.4%3.7 ppok
Tyler County5409520.2%3.8 ppok
Barbour County5400120.0%3.6 ppok
Monongalia County5406119.7%1.3 ppok
Mason County5405319.4%4.1 ppok
Cabell County5401119.2%1.5 ppok
Fayette County5401919.2%2.7 ppok
Upshur County5409719.2%2.8 ppok
Roane County5408719.1%4.5 ppok
Gilmer County5402119.0%5.2 ppok
Jackson County5403518.5%3.0 ppok
Hardy County5403117.7%3.3 ppok
Ohio County5406917.7%2.1 ppok
Marshall County5405116.8%2.2 ppok
Wirt County5410516.8%Interpret with caution: large relative MOE.5.1 ppok
Pendleton County5407116.6%4.2 ppok
Mercer County5405516.5%2.1 ppok
Boone County5400516.2%2.8 ppok
Lewis County5404116.1%3.1 ppok
Wetzel County5410316.0%3.9 ppok
Randolph County5408315.9%2.5 ppok
Kanawha County5403915.7%1.0 ppok
Nicholas County5406715.4%2.9 ppok
Tucker County5409315.3%2.9 ppok
Doddridge County5401714.8%4.1 ppok
Wood County5410714.7%1.2 ppok
Wayne County5409914.6%2.5 ppok
Hancock County5402914.5%2.4 ppok
Harrison County5403314.4%1.7 ppok
Mineral County5405714.0%2.6 ppok
Monroe County5406314.0%4.0 ppok
Taylor County5409113.9%2.8 ppok
Preston County5407713.8%2.1 ppok
Marion County5404913.6%1.5 ppok
Grant County5402313.3%3.4 ppok
Brooke County5400913.1%2.4 ppok
Hampshire County5402713.1%2.3 ppok
Pleasants County5407311.6%Interpret with caution: large relative MOE.3.5 ppok
Morgan County5406511.2%2.2 ppok
Berkeley County5400311.1%1.0 ppok
Putnam County5407910.6%2.1 ppok
Jefferson County540378.7%1.4 ppok