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Real estate agents and brokers in Barbour County, WV
The real estate agents and brokers 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 2.
- Listings
- 2
- 0 chain locations (0%)
- Official establishments
- n/a
- Fewer than 3, or not published
- Household spending a year
- $78.8M
- On rent and homeowner costs · $12,805 a household
- Housing spending per listing (U.S. = 100)
- 722
- Too few listings to compare
- Listings per 10k households
- 3.3
- Too few listings to compare
- Population, 2025
- 15,414
- −0.3% since 2020
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What this means
Household spending on rent and homeowner costs in Barbour County comes to about $78.8M a year: $12,805 per household, 23% below the U.S. average. The spending figure is all rent and homeowner costs, a measure of housing demand, not money real estate agents and brokers take in.
Barbour County has 2 real estate agents and brokers on map listings as of September 2026. That is 3.3 per 10,000 households.
Official counts don’t publish a figure for offices of real estate agents and brokers in Barbour County, since they leave out counts under 3.
Between 2020 and 2025, the population of Barbour County declined 0.3%, against +3.1% for the U.S. With 2 real estate agents and brokers 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. 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 | Barbour County | West Virginia | U.S. |
|---|---|---|---|
| Listings per 10k households | 3.3 | 12.8 | 30.6 |
| Housing spending per listing (U.S. = 100) | 722 | 199 | 100 |
| Households per official establishment | n/a | 2,640 | 788 |
| Official establishment growth, 2019–2023 | n/a | +22.7% | +20.1% |
| Population growth, 2020–2025 | −0.3% | −1.4% | +3.1% |
| Spending per household on rent and homeowner costs | $12,805 | $13,873 | $16,661 |
| Median household income | $51,394 | $59,608 | $80,734 |
| Groundwork market score | Not scored | 61 |
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
- 14The 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 offices of real estate agents and brokers 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 | Housing spending per listing (U.S. = 100) | Population growth | U.S. rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1Preston County, WV | 69 | 9 | 7.0 | 361 | −0.6% | #233 of 2,176 |
| 2Morgan County, WV | 66 | 11 | 15.0 | 176 | +5.5% | #334 of 2,176 |
| 3Upshur County, WV | 64 | 9 | 9.4 | 261 | −0.3% | #378 of 2,176 |
| 4Marion County, WV | 63 | 25 | 10.7 | 244 | −1.2% | #412 of 2,176 |
| 5Putnam County, WV | 61 | 33 | 14.2 | 201 | −1.0% | #514 of 2,176 |
| 6Hampshire County, WV | 61 | 12 | 13.9 | 185 | +4.4% | #522 of 2,176 |
| 7Berkeley County, WV | 61 | 122 | 23.9 | 117 | +13.7% | #535 of 2,176 |
| 8Jackson County, WV | 60 | 14 | 12.2 | 205 | −1.0% | #555 of 2,176 |
| 9Mercer County, WV | 59 | 23 | 9.5 | 256 | −3.4% | #583 of 2,176 |
| 10Lewis County, WV | 57 | 5 | 7.2 | 353 | −3.7% | #665 of 2,176 |
| Barbour County, WV | Not scored | 2 | 3.3 | 722 | −0.3% |
Other business types in Barbour County
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 estate
- Real estate agents and brokers
- Property management
- Mortgage brokers and lenders
- Home inspectors
Funeral services
Questions
How many real estate agents and brokers are in Barbour County, WV?
Map listings as of September 2026 show 2 real estate agents and brokers in Barbour County. The listings count real estate agents and brokerages, commercial brokers included. No official count is published for offices of real estate agents and brokers in Barbour County: counts under 3 are left out.
How much do households in Barbour County, WV spend on rent and homeowner costs?
About $78.8M a year, or $12,805 per household. That is 23% below the U.S. average (an index of 77, where 100 is the U.S. average). That figure is all rent and homeowner costs, used as a measure of housing demand; it is not money real estate agents and brokers take in. 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 real estate agents and brokers?
Barbour County has 2 real estate agents and brokers on map listings, too few for a steady comparison with the U.S. rate. At the U.S. ratio of real estate agents and brokers to household spending, Barbour County would have about 14, against 2 on map listings.
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 real estate agents and brokers: the score needs at least 5 on map listings, and it has 2.
How can I see the market around a specific site?
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