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Oil change and quick-lube shops in the Clarksburg, WV area

How the Clarksburg, WV area compares with other small-town markets and the U.S. for oil change and quick-lube shops: competitors, household spending, official counts and growth.

Groundwork market score

Not scored

Too few small-town markets have 5 or more listings to score them against each other.

Listings
7
2 chain locations (29%)
Official establishments
4
Businesses with payroll, 2023
Household spending a year
$29M
On vehicle maintenance and repairs · $817 a household
Spending per listing
$4.1M
70% below the U.S.
Listings per 10k households
2.0
2.9 times the U.S.
Population, 2025
88,142
−2.4% since 2020

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Survey estimates 2020–2024 · population estimates 2025 · official business counts 2023 · map listings September 2026 · Data credits · How we measure

What this means

Map listings as of September 2026 show 7 oil change and quick-lube shops in the Clarksburg area. Chain locations make up 29% of them, against 73% across the U.S. Per 10,000 households, that is 2.0, 2.9 times the U.S. rate of 0.7.

Household spending on vehicle maintenance and repairs in the Clarksburg area comes to about $29M a year: $817 per household, 15% below the U.S. average. Spread across 7 oil change and quick-lube shops, that is $4.1M per shop, 70% below the U.S. figure of $13.7M. That spending covers all vehicle maintenance and repairs, which oil change and quick-lube shops share with other businesses in the trade.

Official counts show 4 businesses with payroll classed as oil change and lubrication shops in the Clarksburg area in 2023. That is one for every 8,878 households, against one for every 14,222 across the U.S.

Between 2020 and 2025, the population of the Clarksburg area declined 2.4%, against +3.1% for the U.S. Too few small-town markets have 5 or more oil change and quick-lube shops on map listings to score them against each other.

How the Clarksburg area compares

The same measures for West Virginia and the whole U.S. Spending per listing divides a year of household spending on all vehicle maintenance and repairs by the oil change and quick-lube shops counted, so it measures the demand for each competitor, not any business’s revenue. Households per establishment does the same with the official count.

Oil change and quick lube in Clarksburg, WV area compared with West Virginia and the U.S.
MeasureClarksburg areaWest VirginiaU.S.
Listings per 10k households2.00.80.7
Spending per listing$4.1M$11M$13.7M
Households per official establishment8,87817,77214,222
Official establishment growth, 2019–2023n/a+10.8%+12.1%
Population growth, 2020–2025−2.4%−1.4%+3.1%
Spending per household on vehicle maintenance and repairs$817$833$958
Median household income$59,928$59,608$80,734
Groundwork market scoreNot scored26

Official counts and lending

Businesses

Official establishments, 2019 to 2023
4
Employees, 2023
21
Annual payroll, 2023
$688K
One-person businesses, 2023
Not publishedNot published for this business type
Map listings, September 2026
72 chain locations
Listings at the U.S. rate for this spending
2The 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 oil change and lubrication shops in the Clarksburg 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 Clarksburg area

Population, 2025 estimate
88,142−2.4% since 2020
Households
35,511
Median age
43.2
Homes lived in by their owners
77%
Vehicles per household
1.7
Land area
909 sq. mi.
People per square mile
98
Median household income
$59,928+16.3% vs. 2015–2019, before inflation
Average household income
$82,938
Median home value
$162,800
Jobs located here
39,492
Daytime population
92,527Residents who don’t work, plus everyone whose job is here

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Questions

How many oil change and quick-lube shops are in the Clarksburg, WV area?

There are 7 oil change and quick-lube shops on map listings in the Clarksburg area as of September 2026. 2 of them (29%) are chain locations. The listings count oil change and quick-lube shops. Official counts show 4 businesses with payroll classed as oil change and lubrication shops in 2023.

How much do households in the Clarksburg, WV area spend on vehicle maintenance and repairs?

About $29M a year, or $817 per household. That is 15% below the U.S. average (an index of 85, where 100 is the U.S. average). Spread across the 7 oil change and quick-lube shops on map listings, it comes to $4.1M per shop. The spending figure covers all vehicle maintenance and repairs, not only oil change and quick-lube shops. It is estimated from the incomes of the 35,511 households in the Clarksburg area and national spending patterns by income.

How does the Clarksburg, WV area compare with the U.S. for oil change and quick-lube shops?

The Clarksburg area has 2.0 oil change and quick-lube shops per 10,000 households, 2.9 times the U.S. rate of 0.7. Spending per shop is $4.1M, 70% below the U.S. figure of $13.7M. At the national ratio of oil change and quick-lube shops to household spending, the Clarksburg area would have about 2, against 7 on map listings. There is one business with payroll in the industry for every 8,878 households, against one for every 14,222 across the U.S.

How fast is the Clarksburg, WV area growing?

Population estimates put the Clarksburg area at 88,142 people in 2025, down 2.4% since 2020, against +3.1% for the U.S. It has 35,511 households. The median household income in the Clarksburg area is $59,928 a year, 26% below the U.S. median of $80,734. That rose 16.3% 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. A small-town market is a town of 10,000 to 50,000 people and the county or counties tied to it by commuting. 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. Too few small-town markets have 5 or more oil change and quick-lube shops on map listings to score them against each other.

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