Counties in West Virginia by business revenue: administrative support and waste management (Economic Census)

Kanawha County had the highest business revenue: administrative support and waste management (Economic Census) of 42 counties in 2017, at $489.89 million. Tyler County had the lowest, at $977,000. The median was $13.36 million and the figure for West Virginia was $2.11 billion. Source: the U.S. Census Bureau.

Highest489.9Kanawha County

Lowest1Tyler County

Median13.442 counties

West Virginia2,114.5History

Map of counties, 2017

Under 3
3 to 5
5 to 13
13 to 34
34 to 80
80 and over
No data

USD million, 2017. Hatched areas have no value for this period. Source: U.S. Census Bureau, Economic Census basic statistics by geography (EC1700BASIC, EC2200BASIC): sales, value of shipments, or revenue (RCPTOT) of administrative and support and waste management and remediation services (NAICS 56), all establishments. Boundaries: U.S. Census Bureau cartographic boundary files.

All counties, 2017

USD million. Source: U.S. Census Bureau, Economic Census basic statistics by geography (EC1700BASIC, EC2200BASIC): sales, value of shipments, or revenue (RCPTOT) of administrative and support and waste management and remediation services (NAICS 56), all establishments. Retrieved 2026-10-12.

Full ranking

Rank	Counties	2017 USD million
1	Kanawha County	489.9
2	Harrison County	167.7
3	Ohio County	162.6
4	Cabell County	144.3
5	Monongalia County	126.6
6	Putnam County	110.2
7	Raleigh County	97.2
8	Marion County	76.7
9	Preston County	68.1
10	Greenbrier County	62.5
11	Berkeley County	53.3
12	Mercer County	41.3
13	Jackson County	37.8
14	Pleasants County	37.4
15	Hancock County	32.4
16	Logan County	31.6
17	Marshall County	29.3
18	Nicholas County	21.6
19	Barbour County	20.5
20	Lewis County	17.3
21	Brooke County	13.4
21	Fayette County	13.4
23	Wayne County	10.2
24	Wetzel County	8.2
25	Monroe County	6.1
26	Mingo County	5.7
27	Tucker County	5.6
28	Hardy County	5.5
29	Mineral County	5
30	Lincoln County	5
31	McDowell County	4.9
32	Upshur County	4.6
33	Hampshire County	3.2
34	Braxton County	3.2
35	Summers County	3.1
36	Morgan County	2.9
37	Wyoming County	2.6
38	Pocahontas County	2.3
39	Mason County	2.3
40	Grant County	2
41	Pendleton County	1.3
42	Tyler County	1

Other periods

2022
2017

About this ranking

Sales, value of shipments or revenue of employer establishments in administrative and support and waste management and remediation services (NAICS 56), in millions of current US dollars, from the U.S. Census Bureau Economic Census.

Economic Census, taken every five years: values exist for 2017 and 2022 only, and the 2027 census publishes about 2029. Revenue of employer establishments located in the place, in millions of current US dollars, not adjusted for inflation; nonemployers (nonemployer_receipts_usd_*) are not included, and government owned establishments are generally out of scope. Manufacturing is the value of shipments and wholesale and retail trade are sales, so an establishment selling to another counts in both and sectors do not add up to output or GDP. Cells that would disclose individual companies (flag D) or that Census does not publish are missing here, not zero; counties are published for 14 of the 18 sectors. Sectors follow NAICS 2017 for 2017 and NAICS 2022 for 2022.

Every value in the ranking comes from the same publisher and the same period, so the counties are compared on one definition. 5 counties with data in other periods have no value for 2017 and are left out rather than filled from another source. Equal values share a rank.

How to cite

U.S. Census Bureau. Economic Census basic statistics by geography (EC1700BASIC, EC2200BASIC): sales, value of shipments, or revenue (RCPTOT) of administrative and support and waste management and remediation services (NAICS 56), all establishments. https://www2.census.gov/programs-surveys/economic-census/data/2017/sector00/EC1700BASIC.zip. Retrieved 2026-10-12.

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U.S. Census Bureau. (2021). Economic Census basic statistics by geography (EC1700BASIC, EC2200BASIC): sales, value of shipments, or revenue (RCPTOT) of administrative and support and waste management and remediation services (NAICS 56), all establishments (Counties in West Virginia by business revenue: administrative support and waste management (Economic Census), 2017) [Data set]. Retrieved October 12, 2026, from https://www2.census.gov/programs-surveys/economic-census/data/2017/sector00/EC1700BASIC.zip

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Economic Census basic statistics by geography (EC1700BASIC, EC2200BASIC): sales, value of shipments, or revenue (RCPTOT) of administrative and support and waste management and remediation services (NAICS 56), all establishments, Counties in West Virginia by business revenue: administrative support and waste management (Economic Census), 2017. U.S. Census Bureau, 27 May 2021, https://www2.census.gov/programs-surveys/economic-census/data/2017/sector00/EC1700BASIC.zip. Invokely, https://invokely.ai/rankings/business-revenue-administrative-support/west-virginia-counties?period=2017. Accessed 12 Oct. 2026.

Chicago (author-date)

U.S. Census Bureau. 2021. Economic Census basic statistics by geography (EC1700BASIC, EC2200BASIC): sales, value of shipments, or revenue (RCPTOT) of administrative and support and waste management and remediation services (NAICS 56), all establishments. Counties in West Virginia by business revenue: administrative support and waste management (Economic Census), 2017. Dataset. Accessed October 12, 2026. https://www2.census.gov/programs-surveys/economic-census/data/2017/sector00/EC1700BASIC.zip. Also distributed by Invokely, https://invokely.ai/rankings/business-revenue-administrative-support/west-virginia-counties?period=2017.

Harvard

U.S. Census Bureau (2021) Economic Census basic statistics by geography (EC1700BASIC, EC2200BASIC): sales, value of shipments, or revenue (RCPTOT) of administrative and support and waste management and remediation services (NAICS 56), all establishments, Counties in West Virginia by business revenue: administrative support and waste management (Economic Census), 2017 [Dataset]. Available at: https://www2.census.gov/programs-surveys/economic-census/data/2017/sector00/EC1700BASIC.zip, via Invokely: https://invokely.ai/rankings/business-revenue-administrative-support/west-virginia-counties?period=2017 (Accessed: 12 October 2026).

BibTeX

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  year = {2021},
  howpublished = {Data set},
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  urldate = {2026-10-12},
  note = {Accessed via Invokely, https://invokely.ai/rankings/business-revenue-administrative-support/west-virginia-counties?period=2017. Publisher attribution: U.S. Census Bureau. Economic Census basic statistics by geography (EC1700BASIC, EC2200BASIC): sales, value of shipments, or revenue (RCPTOT) of administrative and support and waste management and remediation services (NAICS 56), all establishments. https://www2.census.gov/programs-surveys/economic-census/data/2017/sector00/EC1700BASIC.zip. Retrieved 2026-10-12.},
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Questions

Which county has the highest business revenue: administrative support and waste management (Economic Census)?

Kanawha County, with $489.89 million in 2017, according to the U.S. Census Bureau.

Which county has the lowest business revenue: administrative support and waste management (Economic Census)?

Tyler County, with $977,000 in 2017.

Where does this ranking come from?

Every value comes from one source and one period, so the places are comparable: U.S. Census Bureau, Economic Census basic statistics by geography (EC1700BASIC, EC2200BASIC): sales, value of shipments, or revenue (RCPTOT) of administrative and support and waste management and remediation services (NAICS 56), all establishments. Retrieved 2026-10-12. 5 counties have no value for 2017 and are not ranked.