Retail_Trade_____ | Number of establish- ments | Retail sales | Number of employees | Payroll ($1,000) | Popu- lation | Retail sales per capita ($) | |
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($1,000) | rank | ||||||
United States (preliminary) | 1,120,249 | 2,456,574,247 |   | 14,115,559 | 238,792,423 | 267,636,061 | 9,179 |
West Virginia | 8,082 | 14,057,933 |   | 90,087 | 1,309,316 | 1,815,231 | 7,744 |
Kanawha County | 976 | 2,428,641 | 1 | 14,450 | 217,716 | 203,195 | 11,952 |
Cabell County | 553 | 1,120,097 | 2 | 7,592 | 113,084 | 95,067 | 11,782 |
Wood County | 462 | 990,203 | 3 | 6,058 | 91,043 | 87,104 | 11,368 |
Raleigh County | 390 | 826,776 | 4 | 4,889 | 75,872 | 78,970 | 10,469 |
Harrison County | 391 | 766,746 | 5 | 4,956 | 70,239 | 70,597 | 10,861 |
Monongalia County | 373 | 677,229 | 6 | 4,750 | 70,535 | 77,525 | 8,736 |
Mercer County | 321 | 588,156 | 7 | 3,683 | 53,013 | 64,233 | 9,157 |
Berkeley County | 335 | 546,701 | 8 | 4,000 | 52,246 | 69,088 | 7,913 |
Marion County | 236 | 421,466 | 9 | 2,567 | 35,710 | 56,828 | 7,417 |
Ohio County | 247 | 387,029 | 10 | 2,706 | 43,223 | 48,972 | 7,903 |
Putnam County | 201 | 364,959 | 11 | 2,119 | 30,058 | 50,297 | 7,256 |
Logan County | 204 | 335,709 | 12 | 1,996 | 30,950 | 41,294 | 8,130 |
Greenbrier County | 217 | 328,973 | 13 | 2,176 | 31,085 | 35,447 | 9,281 |
Fayette County | 206 | 328,630 | 14 | 2,103 | 31,320 | 48,566 | 6,767 |
Jackson County | 115 | 293,505 | 15 | 1,442 | 23,167 | 27,614 | 10,629 |
Nicholas County | 139 | 213,706 | 16 | 1,333 | 18,641 | 27,580 | 7,749 |
Hancock County | 135 | 206,029 | 17 | 1,682 | 20,181 | 34,338 | 6,000 |
Marshall County | 114 | 204,288 | 18 | 1,523 | 18,293 | 35,716 | 5,720 |
Randolph County | 149 | 201,051 | 19 | 1,343 | 18,364 | 28,719 | 7,001 |
Jefferson County | 142 | 197,678 | 20 | 1,291 | 21,021 | 40,229 | 4,914 |
Mingo County | 122 | 176,131 | 21 | 1,006 | 15,859 | 32,475 | 5,424 |
Wayne County | 111 | 168,527 | 22 | 1,127 | 15,425 | 42,118 | 4,001 |
Upshur County | 101 | 155,231 | 23 | 837 | 14,024 | 23,786 | 6,526 |
Preston County | 87 | 147,049 | 24 | 828 | 11,635 | 29,782 | 4,938 |
Boone County | 110 | 146,266 | 25 | 984 | 14,441 | 26,347 | 5,552 |
Wetzel County | 112 | 145,531 | 26 | 1,070 | 14,050 | 18,481 | 7,875 |
Lewis County | 89 | 143,578 | 27 | 946 | 12,712 | 17,494 | 8,207 |
Mineral County | 103 | 142,714 | 28 | 982 | 12,590 | 26,960 | 5,294 |
Braxton County | 87 | 111,123 | 29 | 678 | 10,161 | 13,227 | 8,401 |
Wyoming County | 98 | 108,377 | 30 | 759 | 11,330 | 27,662 | 3,918 |
McDowell County | 97 | 108,253 | 31 | 860 | 11,916 | 30,558 | 3,543 |
Brooke County | 86 | 91,302 | 32 | 684 | 8,682 | 26,208 | 3,484 |
Mason County | 80 | 79,489 | 33 | 557 | 7,176 | 25,948 | 3,063 |
Roane County | 58 | 75,116 | 34 | 475 | 7,124 | 15,365 | 4,889 |
Barbour County | 57 | 69,305 | 35 | 509 | 6,728 | 16,211 | 4,275 |
Hampshire County | 59 | 67,790 | 36 | 440 | 5,871 | 18,867 | 3,593 |
Morgan County | 53 | 59,734 | 37 | 355 | 6,196 | 13,536 | 4,413 |
Taylor County | 47 | 55,738 | 38 | 318 | 4,526 | 15,333 | 3,635 |
Hardy County | 50 | 53,184 | 39 | 426 | 5,997 | 11,728 | 4,535 |
Grant County | 54 | 52,990 | 40 | 349 | 4,920 | 11,104 | 4,772 |
Lincoln County | 51 | 52,295 | 41 | 358 | 4,724 | 22,165 | 2,359 |
Pocahontas County | 55 | 46,356 | 42 | 373 | 4,491 | 9,082 | 5,104 |
Ritchie County | 48 | 42,045 | 43 | 282 | 3,730 | 10,244 | 4,104 |
Pleasants County | 28 | 41,809 | 44 | 248 | 3,542 | 7,494 | 5,579 |
Tucker County | 38 | 40,877 | 45 | 266 | 3,759 | 7,719 | 5,296 |
Clay County | 33 | 37,899 | 46 | 208 | 2,623 | 10,512 | 3,605 |
Summers County | 45 | 36,024 | 47 | 247 | 3,866 | 13,791 | 2,612 |
Webster County | 32 | 31,192 | 48 | 212 | 2,819 | 10,313 | 3,025 |
Pendleton County | 33 | 29,377 | 49 | 210 | 2,794 | 8,043 | 3,652 |
Monroe County | 37 | 27,727 | 50 | 192 | 2,127 | 13,139 | 2,110 |
Tyler County | 32 | 25,584 | 51 | 191 | 2,112 | 9,991 | 2,561 |
Gilmer County | 25 | 23,432 | 52 | 164 | 2,348 | 7,184 | 3,262 |
Calhoun County | 29 | 20,729 | 53 | 168 | 1,918 | 7,928 | 2,615 |
Wirt County | 14 | 10,578 | 54 | 72 | 729 | 5,644 | 1,874 |
Doddridge County | 15 | 7,009 | 55 | 47 | 610 | 7,413 | ,946 |
These data include establishments with paid employees, except auxiliaries.
Source: 1997 Economic Census, and 1997 population estimates, data available as of 11/29/99
For data issued since that date, or other areas, see www.census.gov/econ97.