County / FIPS 54009
Brooke County
West Virginia
Brooke County runs 7 public schools reporting to NCES. No Medicare-certified hospital reports to CMS from here — a real finding about rural healthcare access, not a gap in this site; West Virginia has other facilities nearby.
At a glance
Public schools
7
Hospitals
0
With a star rating
0
Land area
89
Brooke County in numbers
American Community Survey five-year estimates ending 2024. These are sample estimates, not a count — each carries a margin of error, and where that margin is too wide to mean anything the figure is withheld rather than printed.
Population
21,805
Median household income
$54,316
Poverty rate
13.1%
Unemployment rate
6.3%
Median home value
$141,500
Median gross rent
$645
Bachelor's degree or higher
23.4%
Federal money
Obligations recorded against a place of performance in Brooke County. An obligation is a legal commitment to pay, not cash out the door — outlays follow later, sometimes by years.
Obligations, FY2025
$187.0M
Per resident
$8,289
Change since FY2021
+12%
Fiscal years covered
5
▸ View as table
| Period | Obligations |
|---|---|
| 2021 | $167M |
| 2022 | $148M |
| 2023 | $181M |
| 2024 | $178M |
| 2025 | $187M |
Figures are nominal — not adjusted for inflation — because USAspending publishes them that way and adjusting them here would mean this site had edited a government figure. The per-resident figure divides by the 2020 decennial count, which is the population USAspending carries; a 2020 denominator against 2025 spending overstates per-head figures wherever a place has grown since. Brooke County ranks 1689th of 3,233 on this measure in FY2025.
Public schools in Brooke County
Enrollment is the most recent year NCES published.
| School | District | City | Enrollment |
|---|---|---|---|
| Brooke High School | Brooke County Schools | Wellsburg | 1,033 |
| Brooke Intermediate School North | Brooke County Schools | Follansbee | 167 |
| Brooke Intermediate School South | Brooke County Schools | Wellsburg | 107 |
| Brooke Middle School | Brooke County Schools | Wellsburg | 693 |
| Brooke Primary School North | Brooke County Schools | Follansbee | 251 |
| Brooke Primary School South | Brooke County Schools | Wellsburg | 228 |
| The Bruin Bridge | Brooke County Schools | Wellsburg | — |