County / FIPS 54085
Ritchie County
West Virginia
Ritchie County runs 5 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
5
Hospitals
0
With a star rating
0
Land area
452
Ritchie 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
8,286
Median household income
$50,582
Poverty rate
21.6%
Unemployment rate
Not published
Median home value
$115,900
Median gross rent
$579
Bachelor's degree or higher
14.4%
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.
Federal money
Obligations recorded against a place of performance in Ritchie County. An obligation is a legal commitment to pay, not cash out the door — outlays follow later, sometimes by years.
Obligations, FY2025
$75.8M
Per resident
$8,981
Change since FY2021
+4%
Fiscal years covered
5
▸ View as table
| Period | Obligations |
|---|---|
| 2021 | $73M |
| 2022 | $74M |
| 2023 | $72M |
| 2024 | $86M |
| 2025 | $76M |
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. Ritchie County ranks 2587th of 3,233 on this measure in FY2025.
Public schools in Ritchie County
Enrollment is the most recent year NCES published.
| School | District | City | Enrollment |
|---|---|---|---|
| Creed Collins Elementary | Ritchie County Schools | Pennsboro | 214 |
| Harrisville Elementary | Ritchie County Schools | Harrisville | 219 |
| Ritchie County High School | Ritchie County Schools | Ellenboro | 387 |
| Ritchie County Middle | Ritchie County Schools | Ellenboro | 330 |
| Smithville Elementary | Ritchie County Schools | Smithville | 93 |