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County / FIPS 54071

Pendleton County

West Virginia

Pendleton County runs 4 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.

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At a glance

Public schools

4schools

Hospitals

0facilities

With a star rating

0facilities

Land area

696sq mi

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Pendleton 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

6,043people

2807th of 3,222

Median household income

$64,931

1639th of 3,222

Poverty rate

16.6%

± 4.2% — wide margin, not ranked

Unemployment rate

Not published

Sample too small here — the margin exceeds the figure by too much to report.

Median home value

$183,800

1588th of 3,222, tied with 1

Median gross rent

$770

2338th of 3,222, tied with 7

Bachelor's degree or higher

18.5%

± 3.9% — wide margin, not ranked

One figure is withheld above. The Census Bureau publishes them, but with a margin of error wider than 30% of the value — which for a place this size means the survey sampled too few households to say. They are left out rather than shown with a caveat nobody reads.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2024 5-year estimates. Margins of error are the Bureau’s own, at 90% confidence; margins for rates are derived using the Bureau’s published formulas.

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Federal money

Obligations recorded against a place of performance in Pendleton County. An obligation is a legal commitment to pay, not cash out the door — outlays follow later, sometimes by years.

Obligations, FY2025

$55.0M

2824th of 3,233 among counties

Per resident

$8,9582020 population

Change since FY2021

−2%nominal

Fiscal years covered

5years

Federal obligations in Pendleton County, FY2021–FY2025
$50M$55M$60M$65M
$55M
202120232025
View as table
PeriodObligations
2021$56M
2022$53M
2023$57M
2024$62M
2025$55M

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. Pendleton County ranks 2824th of 3,233 on this measure in FY2025.

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Public schools in Pendleton County

Enrollment is the most recent year NCES published.

Public schools in Pendleton County
SchoolDistrictCityEnrollment
Brandywine Elementary SchoolPendleton County SchoolsBrandywine107
Franklin Elementary SchoolPendleton County SchoolsFranklin276
North Fork Elementary SchoolPendleton County SchoolsCircleville96
Pendleton County Middle/High SchoolPendleton County SchoolsFranklin388
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