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Insurance agencies in Wise County, VA
How Wise County, VA compares with other counties and the U.S. for insurance agencies: competitors, household spending, official counts and growth.
Groundwork market score · out of 100
Score 70 out of 100: Upper middle
Ranked #451 of 2,272 scored counties
#54 of 97 scored counties in Virginia
- Listings
- 11
- 3 chain locations (27%)
- Official establishments
- 9
- Businesses with payroll, 2023
- Household spending a year
- $35.3M
- On vehicle insurance · $2,537 a household
- Spending per listing
- $3.2M
- 2.6 times the U.S.
- Listings per 10k households
- 7.9
- 49% below the U.S.
- Population, 2025
- 34,824
- −3.5% since 2020
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What this means
Map listings as of September 2026 show 11 insurance agencies in Wise County. Chain locations make up 27% of them, against 21% across the U.S. Per 10,000 households, that is 7.9, 49% below the U.S. rate of 15.6.
At $2,537 per household (30% above the U.S. average), households in Wise County spend about $35.3M a year on vehicle insurance. That is about $3.2M of household spending for each agency on map listings, 2.6 times the U.S. figure of $1.3M.
The official count of businesses with payroll classed as insurance agencies and brokerages in Wise County was 9 in 2023. That is one for every 1,545 households, against one for every 966 across the U.S.
Between 2020 and 2025, the population of Wise County declined 3.5%, against +3.1% for the U.S. Wise County scores 70 (upper middle) on the Groundwork market score for insurance agencies, ranking #451 of 2,272 scored counties and #54 of 97 scored counties in Virginia. That puts it in the top quarter of counties.
How Wise County compares
The same measures for Virginia and the whole U.S. Spending per listing divides a year of household spending on all vehicle insurance by the insurance agencies 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 | Wise County | Virginia | U.S. |
|---|---|---|---|
| Listings per 10k households | 7.9 | 12.5 | 15.6 |
| Spending per listing | $3.2M | $2M | $1.3M |
| Households per official establishment | 1,545 | 1,234 | 966 |
| Official establishment growth, 2019–2023 | n/a | −7.4% | −1.0% |
| Population growth, 2020–2025 | −3.5% | +2.8% | +3.1% |
| Spending per household on vehicle insurance | $2,537 | $2,545 | $1,957 |
| Median household income | $52,943 | $93,170 | $80,734 |
| Groundwork market score | 70 | 83 |
Official counts and lending
Businesses
- Official establishments, 2019 to 2023
- 12 → 9
- Employees, 2023
- 51
- Annual payroll, 2023
- $2.8M
- One-person businesses, 2023
- Not publishedNot published for this business type
- Map listings, September 2026
- 113 chain locations
- Listings at the U.S. rate for this spending
- 28The 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 insurance agencies and brokerages in Wise 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 Wise County
- Population, 2025 estimate
- 34,824−3.5% since 2020
- Households
- 13,905
- Median age
- 42.7
- Homes lived in by their owners
- 74%
- Vehicles per household
- 1.9
- Land area
- 403 sq. mi.
- People per square mile
- 88
- Median household income
- $52,943+36.1% vs. 2015–2019, before inflation
- Average household income
- $64,112
- Median home value
- $118,600
- Jobs located here
- 11,233
- Daytime population
- 34,076Residents who don’t work, plus everyone whose job is here
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Top counties in Virginia
| Market | Score | Listings | Per 10k households | Spending per listing | Population growth | U.S. rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1Louisa County, VA | 98 | 10 | 6.4 | $5M | +13.6% | #1 of 2,272 |
| 2Stafford County, VA | 97 | 26 | 5.0 | $6.1M | +8.3% | #3 of 2,272 |
| 3King William County, VA | 97 | 6 | 8.2 | $3.9M | +9.5% | #5 of 2,272 |
| 4King George County, VA | 96 | 9 | 8.9 | $3.4M | +10.5% | #10 of 2,272 |
| 5Rockingham County, VA | 95 | 16 | 4.9 | $6.2M | +6.6% | #13 of 2,272 |
| 6Frederick County, VA | 95 | 22 | 6.2 | $4.7M | +8.8% | #15 of 2,272 |
| 7Orange County, VA | 95 | 11 | 7.4 | $4M | +10.1% | #17 of 2,272 |
| 8Spotsylvania County, VA | 95 | 44 | 8.4 | $3.6M | +10.5% | #19 of 2,272 |
| 9Dinwiddie County, VA | 94 | 6 | 5.6 | $5.8M | +3.6% | #22 of 2,272 |
| 10Caroline County, VA | 94 | 7 | 5.8 | $5.3M | +11.3% | #23 of 2,272 |
| 54Wise County, VA | 70 | 11 | 7.9 | $3.2M | −3.5% | #451 of 2,272 |
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Questions
How many insurance agencies are in Wise County, VA?
There are 11 insurance agencies on map listings in Wise County as of September 2026. 3 of them (27%) are chain locations. The listings count insurance agencies. Official counts show 9 businesses with payroll classed as insurance agencies and brokerages in 2023.
How much do households in Wise County, VA spend on vehicle insurance?
About $35.3M a year, or $2,537 per household. That is 30% above the U.S. average (an index of 130, where 100 is the U.S. average). Spread across the 11 insurance agencies on map listings, it comes to $3.2M per agency. It is estimated from the incomes of the 13,905 households in Wise County and national spending patterns by income.
How does Wise County, VA compare with the U.S. for insurance agencies?
Wise County has 7.9 insurance agencies per 10,000 households, 49% below the U.S. rate of 15.6. Spending per agency is $3.2M, 2.6 times the U.S. figure of $1.3M. At the national ratio of insurance agencies to household spending, Wise County would have about 28, against 11 on map listings. There is one business with payroll in the industry for every 1,545 households, against one for every 966 across the U.S.
How fast is Wise County, VA growing?
Population estimates put Wise County at 34,824 people in 2025, down 3.5% since 2020, against +3.1% for the U.S. It has 13,905 households. The median household income in Wise County is $52,943 a year, 34% below the U.S. median of $80,734. That rose 36.1% from the 2015–2019 survey, 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. Wise County scores 70 for insurance agencies (upper middle), #451 of 2,272 scored counties.
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