Wyoming County, West Virginia

• White (non-Hispanic) 19,961 96.8%
• Hispanic or Latino (any race) 167 0.8%
• Black or African American (non-Hispanic) 55 0.3%
• Asian (non-Hispanic) 17 0.1%
• Two or more races (non-Hispanic) 419 2.0%
• American Indian / Alaska Native (non-Hispanic) 0 0.0%
• Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander (non-Hispanic) 0 0.0%
• Some other race (non-Hispanic) 10 0.0%

• Under 18 4,132 20.0%
• 18–24 1,494 7.2%
• 25–44 4,482 21.7%
• 45–64 5,684 27.6%
• 65 and over 4,837 23.4%

Median household income

$48,086

90% interval $42,628–$53,544

−$12,576 vs WV · 49th of 55

Below poverty line

24.8%

90% interval 20.0%–29.6%

+8.6 pp vs WV · 4th of 55

Unemployment (12-mo)

6.1%

+1.64 pp vs. state

County GDP

$1.1B

1.02% of state

Avg. annual pay

$57,600

Establishments

439

• Education & health services 1,432 33.3%
• Natural resources & mining 980 22.8%
• Trade, transportation & utilities 670 15.6%
• Public administration 315 7.3%
• Professional & business services 296 6.9%
• Leisure & hospitality 244 5.7%
• Financial activities 79 1.8%
• Construction 38 0.9%
• Information 8 0.2%

The sectors listed cover 94.4% of covered employment; BLS withholds the rest to avoid disclosing individual employers.

Home ownership

82.5%

+7.6 pp vs WV · 13th of 55

Median gross rent

$650

−$222 vs WV · 46th of 55

Owner-occupied

6,654

Renter-occupied

1,414

• Concentrated

  Top three sectors employ 72% of the county workforce. Most panelists likely share employer relationships within these sectors, surface those connections early in voir dire before any institutional-defendant or sector-specific framing.

• Wide wage spread

  Highest-paid sector (Natural resources & mining, $111,344/yr) pays 5.6× the lowest (Leisure & hospitality, $19,815/yr). Stark intra-economy class divisions on the panel; calibrate damages and lost-wages framing to that range.

• Small-business scale

  Average establishment employs only 9.8 workers, a small-business-dominated local economy. Expect more self-employed and small-business-owner panelists than in institutional-employer venues.

• Republican 6,503 86.0%
• Democratic 980 13.0%
• Other / third-party 82 1.1%

• German or other West Germanic 86 0.4%
• Spanish 70 0.4%
• French, Haitian, or Cajun 11 0.1%

Households

8,068

Family households

5,731

71.0% of households

Married couples w/ children

1,555

27.1% of families

Single-mother families

262

4.6% of families

Veterans

852

5.2% of civilians 18+

• Evangelical Protestant 4,703 22.0%
• Mainline Protestant 2,889 13.5%
• Catholic 150 0.7%
• Black Protestant 76 0.4%

Health insured

93.0%

±2.1 pp

Uninsured

7.0%

±2.1 pp

14th of 55

With a disability

30.4%

±3.2 pp

2nd of 55

Bachelor's or higher

13.1%

±3.3 pp

−11.0 pp vs WV · 47th of 55

Uninsured, under 65 (2024)

9.3%

90% interval 8.1%–10.5% · Census SAHIE

The under-65 uninsured rate is not comparable to the ACS insurance figures, which cover all ages.

Trial court

12th Judicial Circuit Court

Judges

2 (Circuit Court judges per circuit (general civil + felony criminal jurisdiction); vintage 2026 courtswv.gov; cross-checked against W. Va. Code § 51-2-1a. Magistrate Courts (limited jurisdiction: misdemeanors, traffic, small civil up to $10K) are separately allocated one per county and not counted here. Family Court judges (domestic relations) also separate.)

Court seats

Pineville, Welch

This judicial district spans multiple counties.

Traffic fatalities

3

18.19 per 100k adults (18+)

Fatal crashes

3