County / FIPS 54099
Wayne County
West Virginia
Wayne County runs 18 public schools reporting to NCES. It also has 1 Medicare-certified hospital reporting to CMS, of which 1 carry an overall star rating.
At a glance
Public schools
18
Hospitals
1
With a star rating
1
Land area
506
Wayne 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
38,164
Median household income
$58,878
Poverty rate
14.6%
Unemployment rate
Not published
Median home value
$127,100
Median gross rent
$915
Bachelor's degree or higher
19.2%
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 Wayne County. An obligation is a legal commitment to pay, not cash out the door — outlays follow later, sometimes by years.
Obligations, FY2025
$368.1M
Per resident
$9,444
Change since FY2021
−1%
Fiscal years covered
5
▸ View as table
| Period | Obligations |
|---|---|
| 2021 | $372M |
| 2022 | $344M |
| 2023 | $338M |
| 2024 | $337M |
| 2025 | $368M |
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. Wayne County ranks 1087th of 3,233 on this measure in FY2025.
Hospitals in Wayne County
| Hospital | City | CMS rating |
|---|---|---|
| Huntington Va Medical Center | Huntington |
Public schools in Wayne County
Enrollment is the most recent year NCES published.
| School | District | City | Enrollment |
|---|---|---|---|
| Buffalo Elementary School | Wayne County Schools | Kenova | 407 |
| Buffalo Middle School | Wayne County Schools | Kenova | 252 |
| Ceredo-Kenova Elementary | Wayne County Schools | Kenova | 635 |
| Ceredo-Kenova Middle School | Wayne County Schools | Ceredo | 262 |
| Crum Pre K-8 School | Wayne County Schools | Crum | 228 |
| Dunlow Elementary School | Wayne County Schools | Dunlow | 83 |
| East Lynn Elementary School | Wayne County Schools | East Lynn | 134 |
| Fort Gay Pre K-8 | Wayne County Schools | Fort Gay | 551 |
| Genoa Elementary School | Wayne County Schools | Genoa | 56 |
| Kellogg Elementary School | Wayne County Schools | Huntington | 327 |
| Lavalette Elementary School | Wayne County Schools | Lavalette | 233 |
| Prichard Elementary School | Wayne County Schools | Prichard | 149 |
| Spring Valley High School | Wayne County Schools | Huntington | 910 |
| Tolsia High School | Wayne County Schools | Fort Gay | 367 |
| Vinson Middle School | Wayne County Schools | Huntington | 197 |
| Wayne Elementary School | Wayne County Schools | Wayne | 467 |
| Wayne High School | Wayne County Schools | Wayne | 611 |
| Wayne Middle School | Wayne County Schools | Wayne | 371 |