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Home inspectors in the Wheeling, WV-OH metro area
How the Wheeling, WV-OH metro area compares with other metro areas and the U.S. for home inspectors: competitors, household spending, official counts and growth.
Groundwork market score
Not scored
The score needs at least 5 listings; this market has 2.
- Listings
- 2
- 0 chain locations (0%)
- Official establishments
- n/a
- Fewer than 3, or not published
- Household spending a year
- $770M
- On rent and homeowner costs · $13,270 a household
- Housing spending per listing (U.S. = 100)
- 147
- Too few listings to compare
- Listings per 10k households
- 0.3
- Too few listings to compare
- Population, 2025
- 134,089
- −3.6% since 2020
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What this means
Map listings as of September 2026 show 2 home inspectors in the Wheeling metro area. That is 0.3 per 10,000 households.
At $13,270 per household (20% below the U.S. average), households in the Wheeling metro area spend about $770M a year on rent and homeowner costs. That figure is all rent and homeowner costs, used as a measure of housing demand; it is not money home inspectors take in.
There is no official count of businesses with payroll classed as building inspection services in the Wheeling metro area: counts under 3 aren’t published.
Between 2020 and 2025, the population of the Wheeling metro area declined 3.6%, against +3.1% for the U.S. With 2 home inspectors on map listings, the Wheeling metro area isn’t given a market score: the score needs at least 5, since one listing more or less would swing it.
How the Wheeling metro area compares
The same measures for West Virginia and the whole U.S. Housing spending per listing divides all rent and homeowner costs by the listings counted: a measure of housing demand for each business, not money any of them take in, so it is shown against the U.S. (100) only. Households per establishment divides households by the official count.
| Measure | Wheeling metro area | West Virginia | U.S. |
|---|---|---|---|
| Listings per 10k households | 0.3 | 0.6 | 0.6 |
| Housing spending per listing (U.S. = 100) | 147 | 92 | 100 |
| Households per official establishment | n/a | 48,577 | 17,237 |
| Official establishment growth, 2019–2023 | n/a | n/a | +6.5% |
| Population growth, 2020–2025 | −3.6% | −1.4% | +3.1% |
| Spending per household on rent and homeowner costs | $13,270 | $13,873 | $16,661 |
| Median household income | $57,418 | $59,608 | $80,734 |
| Groundwork market score | Not scored | 38 |
Official counts and lending
Businesses
- Official establishments, 2019 to 2023
- n/a
- Employees, 2023
- n/a
- Annual payroll, 2023
- n/a
- One-person businesses, 2023
- Not publishedNot published for this business type
- Map listings, September 2026
- 20 chain locations
- Listings at the U.S. rate for this spending
- 3The U.S. ratio of listings to household spending, applied here
SBA-backed loans since fiscal 2022
- Loans
- 0
- Amount
- $0
SBA-backed loans to businesses classed as building inspection services in the Wheeling metro area, through June 2026, placed by the borrower’s ZIP code. Official establishments are businesses with payroll; the official counts leave out places with fewer than 3.
Population and households in the Wheeling metro area
- Population, 2025 estimate
- 134,089−3.6% since 2020
- Households
- 58,024
- Median age
- 44.8
- Homes lived in by their owners
- 72%
- Vehicles per household
- 1.7
- Land area
- 944 sq. mi.
- People per square mile
- 145
- Median household income
- $57,418+14.0% vs. 2015–2019, before inflation
- Average household income
- $79,303
- Median home value
- $156,600
- Jobs located here
- 58,297
- Daytime population
- 134,771Residents who don’t work, plus everyone whose job is here
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Every West Virginia market ranked →The highest-scoring metro areas in West Virginia for home inspectors, numbered among those based in West Virginia (a market based in another state is listed without a number), with the Wheeling metro area marked.
Top metro areas in West Virginia
| Market | Score | Listings | Per 10k households | Housing spending per listing (U.S. = 100) | Population growth | U.S. rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV | 78 | 114 | 0.5 | 151 | +3.3% | #10 of 243 |
| Hagerstown-Martinsburg, MD-WV | 65 | 9 | 0.8 | 76 | +7.1% | #46 of 243 |
| 1Huntington-Ashland, WV-KY-OH | 54 | 6 | 0.4 | 133 | −2.6% | #102 of 243 |
| 2Morgantown, WV | 26 | 6 | 1.0 | 53 | +1.3% | #231 of 243 |
| 3Charleston, WV | 13 | 8 | 0.9 | 58 | −4.7% | #238 of 243 |
| Wheeling, WV-OH | Not scored | 2 | 0.3 | 147 | −3.6% |
Other business types in the Wheeling metro area
Each with its Groundwork market score here, out of 100, where it has one.
Food and drink
Groceries and convenience
Auto
Beauty and personal care
Fitness and classes
Health care
Child care
Clothing and laundry
Home services
Real estate
- Real estate59
- Real estate agents and brokers58
- Property management60
- Mortgage brokers and lenders50
- Home inspectors
Funeral services
Questions
How many home inspectors are in the Wheeling, WV-OH metro area?
There are 2 home inspectors on map listings in the Wheeling metro area as of September 2026. The listings count home inspectors. No official count is published for building inspection services in the Wheeling metro area: counts under 3 are left out.
How much do households in the Wheeling, WV-OH metro area spend on rent and homeowner costs?
About $770M a year, or $13,270 per household. That is 20% below the U.S. average (an index of 80, where 100 is the U.S. average). The spending figure is all rent and homeowner costs, a measure of housing demand, not money home inspectors take in. It is estimated from the incomes of the 58,024 households in the Wheeling metro area and national spending patterns by income.
How does the Wheeling, WV-OH metro area compare with the U.S. for home inspectors?
The Wheeling metro area has 2 home inspectors on map listings, too few for a steady comparison with the U.S. rate. At the national ratio of home inspectors to household spending, the Wheeling metro area would have about 3, against 2 on map listings.
How fast is the Wheeling, WV-OH metro area growing?
Population estimates put the Wheeling metro area at 134,089 people in 2025, down 3.6% since 2020, against +3.1% for the U.S. It has 58,024 households. Median household income in the Wheeling metro area is $57,418, 29% below the U.S. median of $80,734. Against the 2015–2019 survey, the median rose 14.0%, before inflation.
What is the Groundwork market score?
The Groundwork market score runs from 0 to 100 and compares a market with others of its kind for one business type: states with states, metro areas with metro areas, small-town markets and counties with their own. It weighs household spending per competitor (35%), households per business with payroll (25%), population growth (20%) and spending power (20%), each ranked against those peers. A higher score means that, taken together, the market has more household spending and more households for each business already there, faster population growth and more spending per household than similar markets. It describes a market, not any one site or deal. The Wheeling metro area has no market score for home inspectors: the score needs at least 5 on map listings, and it has 2.
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