Table 2: 1997 Economic Census: Ranking by Retail Sales
West Virginia

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Retail_Trade_____ Number of establish- ments Retail sales Number of employees Payroll ($1,000) Popu- lation Retail sales per capita ($)
($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.