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Home repair companies in Barbour County, WV
The home repair companies in Barbour County, WV, the household spending behind them and how the market ranks against other counties.
Groundwork market score
Not scored
The score needs at least 5 listings; this market has 3.
- Listings
- 3
- 0 chain locations (0%)
- Official establishments
- 4
- Businesses with payroll, 2023
- Household spending a year
- $14.4M
- On home repairs, maintenance and insurance · $2,337 a household
- Spending per listing
- $4.8M
- 97% above the U.S.
- Listings per 10k households
- 4.9
- 60% below the U.S.
- Population, 2025
- 15,414
- −0.3% since 2020
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What this means
Map listings as of September 2026 show 3 home repair companies in Barbour County. Per 10,000 households, that is 4.9, 60% below the U.S. rate of 12.4.
Household spending on home repairs, maintenance and insurance in Barbour County comes to about $14.4M a year: $2,337 per household, 23% below the U.S. average. That is about $4.8M of household spending for each company on map listings, 97% above the U.S. figure of $2.4M.
Official counts show 4 businesses with payroll classed as plumbing, HVAC, electrical and roofing contractors in Barbour County in 2023. That is one for every 1,538 households, against one for every 587 across the U.S.
Population estimates put the population change in Barbour County from 2020 to 2025 at −0.3%, against +3.1% for the U.S. With 3 home repair companies on map listings, Barbour County isn’t given a market score: the score needs at least 5, since one listing more or less would swing it.
How Barbour County compares
The same measures for West Virginia and the whole U.S. Spending per listing divides a year of household spending on all home repairs, maintenance and insurance by the home repair companies counted, so it measures the demand for each competitor, not any business’s revenue. Households per establishment does the same with the official count.
| Measure | Barbour County | West Virginia | U.S. |
|---|---|---|---|
| Listings per 10k households | 4.9 | 7.5 | 12.4 |
| Spending per listing | $4.8M | $3.4M | $2.4M |
| Households per official establishment | 1,538 | 928 | 587 |
| Official establishment growth, 2019–2023 | n/a | +8.0% | +9.6% |
| Population growth, 2020–2025 | −0.3% | −1.4% | +3.1% |
| Spending per household on home repairs, maintenance and insurance | $2,337 | $2,578 | $3,018 |
| Median household income | $51,394 | $59,608 | $80,734 |
| Groundwork market score | Not scored | 58 |
Official counts and lending
Businesses
- Official establishments, 2019 to 2023
- 3 → 4
- Employees, 2023
- 18
- Annual payroll, 2023
- $465K
- One-person businesses, 2023
- Not publishedNot published for this business type
- Map listings, September 2026
- 30 chain locations
- Listings at the U.S. rate for this spending
- 6The 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 plumbing, HVAC, electrical and roofing contractors in Barbour County, 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 Barbour County
- Population, 2025 estimate
- 15,414−0.3% since 2020
- Households
- 6,152
- Median age
- 41.3
- Homes lived in by their owners
- 78%
- Vehicles per household
- 1.9
- Land area
- 341 sq. mi.
- People per square mile
- 45
- Median household income
- $51,394+33.6% vs. 2015–2019, before inflation
- Average household income
- $67,313
- Median home value
- $131,900
- Jobs located here
- 4,127
- Daytime population
- 13,305Residents who don’t work, plus everyone whose job is here
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Top counties in West Virginia
| Market | Score | Listings | Per 10k households | Spending per listing | Population growth | U.S. rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1Jefferson County, WV | 82 | 25 | 11.0 | $3M | +9.2% | #31 of 2,057 |
| 2Berkeley County, WV | 81 | 53 | 10.4 | $2.8M | +13.7% | #41 of 2,057 |
| 3Mineral County, WV | 73 | 6 | 5.4 | $4.9M | −0.4% | #131 of 2,057 |
| 4Hampshire County, WV | 67 | 7 | 8.1 | $3.2M | +4.4% | #294 of 2,057 |
| 5Monongalia County, WV | 65 | 48 | 10.8 | $2.6M | +2.0% | #368 of 2,057 |
| 6Jackson County, WV | 64 | 5 | 4.3 | $5.8M | −1.0% | #379 of 2,057 |
| 7Wayne County, WV | 64 | 7 | 4.4 | $5.7M | −4.0% | #380 of 2,057 |
| 8Marion County, WV | 63 | 16 | 6.9 | $3.9M | −1.2% | #429 of 2,057 |
| 9Hancock County, WV | 63 | 9 | 7.0 | $3.6M | −4.5% | #433 of 2,057 |
| 10Preston County, WV | 62 | 7 | 5.5 | $4.7M | −0.6% | #471 of 2,057 |
| Barbour County, WV | Not scored | 3 | 4.9 | $4.8M | −0.3% |
Other business types in Barbour County
Each with its Groundwork market score here, out of 100, where it has one.
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Clothing and laundry
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Funeral services
Questions
How many home repair companies are in Barbour County, WV?
There are 3 home repair companies on map listings in Barbour County as of September 2026. The listings count HVAC, plumbing, electrical, roofing and gutter companies. Official counts show 4 businesses with payroll classed as plumbing, HVAC, electrical and roofing contractors in 2023.
How much do households in Barbour County, WV spend on home repairs, maintenance and insurance?
About $14.4M a year, or $2,337 per household. That is 23% below the U.S. average (an index of 77, where 100 is the U.S. average). Spread across the 3 home repair companies on map listings, it comes to $4.8M per company. It is estimated from the incomes of the 6,152 households in Barbour County and national spending patterns by income.
How does Barbour County, WV compare with the U.S. for home repair companies?
Barbour County has 4.9 home repair companies per 10,000 households, 60% below the U.S. rate of 12.4. Spending per company is $4.8M, 97% above the U.S. figure of $2.4M. At the national ratio of home repair companies to household spending, Barbour County would have about 6, against 3 on map listings. There is one business with payroll in the industry for every 1,538 households, against one for every 587 across the U.S.
How fast is Barbour County, WV growing?
Population estimates put Barbour County at 15,414 people in 2025, down 0.3% since 2020, against +3.1% for the U.S. It has 6,152 households. Median household income in Barbour County is $51,394, 36% below the U.S. median of $80,734. Against the 2015–2019 survey, the median rose 33.6%, 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. Barbour County has no market score for home repair companies: the score needs at least 5 on map listings, and it has 3.
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