# Counties in West Virginia by rent-burdened renter households (rent 30 percent or more of income), 2024

All 55 values come from U.S. Census Bureau for 2024, so the places are comparable.

- Indicator id: `rent_burden_30_plus_share`
- Unit: %
- Definition: Renter households whose gross rent (contract rent plus utilities and fuels the renter pays) was 30 percent or more of household income in the past 12 months, as a percentage of renter households for which that ratio can be computed. United States: American Community Survey five-year estimate, where the period shown is the last year of the five-year span.
- Source: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-year estimates, table B25070: renter-occupied units with gross rent of 30 percent or more of household income, as a percentage of units where it is computed, calculated with stored inputs (https://www2.census.gov/programs-surveys/acs/summary_file/2024/table-based-SF/data/5YRData/acsdt5y2024-b25070.dat)
- Retrieved: 2026-10-12
- Citation: U.S. Census Bureau. American Community Survey 5-year estimates, table B25070: renter-occupied units with gross rent of 30 percent or more of household income, as a percentage of units where it is computed, calculated with stored inputs. https://www2.census.gov/programs-surveys/acs/summary_file/2024/table-based-SF/data/5YRData/acsdt5y2024-b25070.dat. Retrieved 2026-10-12.
- Web page: https://invokely.ai/rankings/rent-burdened-households/west-virginia-counties

| Rank | Place | % |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | Clay County | 67.1 |
| 2 | Webster County | 66.9 |
| 3 | Wirt County | 63.6 |
| 4 | Summers County | 58.8 |
| 5 | Greenbrier County | 57.4 |
| 6 | Cabell County | 56.9 |
| 7 | Ohio County | 54.8 |
| 8 | Monongalia County | 54.2 |
| 9 | Raleigh County | 54.1 |
| 10 | Wyoming County | 53.8 |
| 11 | Roane County | 53.3 |
| 12 | Fayette County | 52.7 |
| 13 | Grant County | 52.2 |
| 14 | Marshall County | 51.6 |
| 15 | Preston County | 51.4 |
| 16 | Mercer County | 51 |
| 17 | McDowell County | 50.5 |
| 18 | Harrison County | 50.3 |
| 19 | Boone County | 49.6 |
| 20 | Mineral County | 49 |
| 21 | Wood County | 48.8 |
| 22 | Tucker County | 48.5 |
| 23 | Ritchie County | 48.5 |
| 24 | Hancock County | 48.1 |
| 25 | Berkeley County | 48 |
| 26 | Kanawha County | 47.4 |
| 27 | Tyler County | 47.4 |
| 28 | Jackson County | 47 |
| 29 | Upshur County | 46.1 |
| 30 | Wayne County | 45.2 |
| 31 | Mingo County | 45.1 |
| 32 | Randolph County | 45 |
| 33 | Calhoun County | 44.8 |
| 34 | Taylor County | 44.8 |
| 35 | Logan County | 44.4 |
| 36 | Doddridge County | 43.9 |
| 37 | Putnam County | 43.8 |
| 38 | Marion County | 43.7 |
| 39 | Lincoln County | 43 |
| 40 | Pleasants County | 41.7 |
| 41 | Lewis County | 41.6 |
| 42 | Jefferson County | 41.3 |
| 43 | Monroe County | 40.9 |
| 44 | Morgan County | 40.1 |
| 45 | Pocahontas County | 39.5 |
| 46 | Brooke County | 37.8 |
| 47 | Wetzel County | 37.2 |
| 48 | Braxton County | 36.1 |
| 49 | Barbour County | 33.5 |
| 50 | Mason County | 32.5 |
| 51 | Nicholas County | 32.3 |
| 52 | Pendleton County | 30.4 |
| 53 | Hardy County | 30 |
| 54 | Hampshire County | 27 |
| 55 | Gilmer County | 22 |