Census-designated place · Monongalia County, West Virginia

Brookhaven, West Virginia

Brookhaven is a census-designated place in Monongalia County, West Virginia, part of the Morgantown, WV metro area. It has 6,212 residents. Brookhaven, West Virginia has a quality-of-life score of 75 out of 100 (high), ranking #3,845 of 15,651 US cities and towns. Within West Virginia it ranks #4 of 150 cities and towns. It ranks best on dentists (high), primary care physicians (high) and restaurants and bars (high). It ranks worst on depression (high), voter turnout (low) and dental care shortage (high).

75High

Quality-of-life score: #3,845 of 15,651 cities and towns
West Virginia: #4 of 150 in WV
Population: 6,212 (2020-2024)
Land area: 9 mi²
Density: 672.2 /mi²
FIPS code: 5410420

Percentile-based score (100 is the best in the country) from 75 of 80 indicators, with the default “Explorer” weights.

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Scores by category

Each category averages its indicators' percentile scores among US cities and towns.

Safety74#4,013/15,637
Economy56#6,933/15,631
Housing68#4,818/14,977
Health42#9,083/15,609
Healthcare67#5,204/15,650
Environment67#5,067/15,453
Education81#3,050/15,649
Infrastructure86#2,146/15,650
Community25#11,748/15,651
Leisure & amenities86#2,122/15,651

Strengths · Weaknesses

Indicators where Brookhaven, West Virginia ranks highest and lowest among US cities and towns (score = percentile, 100 = best). Values marked “Monongalia County value” are the county’s: the source publishes no figure for this city or town, and the county holding most of its residents stands in.

Strengths

Dentists · high140 /100k
99/100West Virginia 60 /100kUnited States 75 /100k2023University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteMonongalia County value
Primary care physicians · high155 /100k
99/100West Virginia 80 /100kUnited States 76 /100k2022University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteMonongalia County value
Restaurants and bars · high14.5 /10k
94/100West Virginia 8.8 /10kUnited States 9.0 /10k2025U.S. Bureau of Labor StatisticsMonongalia County value
Arts, entertainment and recreation · high8.7 /10k
93/100West Virginia 5.9 /10kUnited States 5.5 /10k2025U.S. Bureau of Labor StatisticsMonongalia County value
Gyms and fitness centers · high2.0 /10k
92/100West Virginia 0.8 /10kUnited States 1.3 /10k2025U.S. Bureau of Labor StatisticsMonongalia County value
Mammography screening · high54.0%
88/100West Virginia 45.0%United States 46.0%2023University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteMonongalia County value

Weaknesses

Depression · high29.6%
3/100West Virginia 31.9%United States 20.7%2023Centers for Disease Control and PreventionModel-based estimate
Voter turnout · low48.1%
3/100West Virginia 54.6%United States 65.2%2024U.S. Election Assistance CommissionMonongalia County value
Dental care shortage · high19.0
3/100West Virginia 15.5United States 5.7Oct 2026Health Resources and Services AdministrationMonongalia County value
Primary care shortage · high18.0
5/100West Virginia 14.5United States 6.2Oct 2026Health Resources and Services AdministrationMonongalia County value
Preventable hospital stays · high4,087 /100k
8/100West Virginia 4,063 /100kUnited States 2,769 /100k2023University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteMonongalia County value
Grocery stores · low0.9 /10k
11/100West Virginia 1.5 /10kUnited States 1.7 /10k2025U.S. Bureau of Labor StatisticsMonongalia County value

Trends

The largest changes over about five years, next to the country's over the same periods.

Broadband subscriptionsImproving
86.5% (2015-2019) → 94.9% (2020-2024)
+8.4 pts5 yearsCensus table B28002US 82.7% → 91.0%
Child poverty rateWorsening
6.2% (2015-2019) → 12.1% (2020-2024)
+5.9 pts5 yearsCensus table B17001US 16.8% → 15.5%
Median household incomeImproving
$72,500 (2015-2019) → $88,438 (2020-2024)
+22%5 yearsCensus table B19013US $65,712 → $81,604
Average commute timeImproving
25.8 min (2015-2019) → 20.3 min (2020-2024)
−21%5 yearsCensus table B08013US 26.9 min → 26.4 min
Poverty rateWorsening
6.8% (2015-2019) → 10.5% (2020-2024)
+3.7 pts5 yearsCensus table B17001US 12.3% → 12.1%
High school diploma or higherImproving
88.2% (2015-2019) → 91.5% (2020-2024)
+3.3 pts5 yearsCensus table B15003US 88.0% → 89.6%

What changed in five years

How each measure moved between two periods about five years apart, read against whether more or less is better, the published margin of error and the same change in other places.

Over about five years, Brookhaven, West Virginia improved on 1 of 10 measures with a comparison and declined on 0. 9 moved within the margin of error and 0 barely changed.

Earlier (2015-2019)
Latest (2020-2024)
Lower standingHigher standing

Position is the place's standing among cities and towns: further right is better, whichever way the measure counts.

Improved1

Broadband+8.4 points86.5% → 94.9%

Declined0

No measure declined by more than its margin of error.

All 10 measures

Change of every measure of Brookhaven, West Virginia between two periods about five years apart
Measure	Before	After	Change	Reading	Favourable vs peers
Average commute time	25.8 min2015-2019	20.3 min2020-2024	−5.5 min	Within the margin of error	92%
Bachelor's degree or higher	40.1%2015-2019	40.5%2020-2024	+0.4 points	Within the margin of error	30%
Broadband subscriptions	86.5%2015-2019	94.9%2020-2024	+8.4 points	Improved	52%
Effective property tax rate	0.54%2015-2019	0.50%2020-2024	−0 points	Within the margin of error	23%
High school diploma or higher	88.2%2015-2019	91.5%2020-2024	+3.3 points	Within the margin of error	71%
Home price to income ratio	2.9×2015-2019	3.0×2020-2024	+0.1×	Within the margin of error	75%
Income inequality (Gini index)	0.4132015-2019	0.3992020-2024	−0.014	Within the margin of error	63%
Median household income	$72,5002015-2019	$88,4382020-2024	+22%	Within the margin of error	37%
Poverty rate	6.8%2015-2019	10.5%2020-2024	+3.7 points	Within the margin of error	17%
Uninsured residents (under 65)	3.2%2015-2019	6.3%2020-2024	+3.1 points	Within the margin of error	18%

“Against peers” compares the change with the same change in the 14640 cities and towns that have the same two periods. It describes how common a change is, not why it happened.

Sources: American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates. Values are the latest and the one five years earlier of the same publisher dataset; datasets that changed publisher in between are never compared.

Survey estimates (American Community Survey) compare the two most recent 5-year windows that do not share years, so the margin of error of the difference holds. The 2015-2019 window predates the pandemic and 2020-2024 includes it.
A change counts only when it is larger than 1.645 times the square root of the two standard errors squared, summed (a 90% margin). Measures published without a margin must change by at least 5% to count.
“Against peers” compares the change with the same change in the 15651 cities and towns that have the same two periods. It describes how common a change is, not why it happened.
Standing is a percentile among the same places: 0 is the lowest value on the measure (or the worst when lower is better), 100 the best.

Cities and towns like Brookhaven, West Virginia five years ago that improved

The places whose measures looked most like those of Brookhaven, West Virginia in the earlier period, ranked by how many measures improved beyond the margin of error, minus how many declined. A comparison of published data, not a forecast and not advice.

For comparison, Brookhaven, West Virginia itself moved +7.6 points in standing on average over the same 8 measures (standings of all places average about zero).

How the ranking works

Similarity is the root-mean-square difference of standings in the earlier period over the measures most places have. Places are ranked by measures that improved beyond the margin of error minus those that declined (a count that estimation noise in small places cannot inflate), then by the mean change of standing over the measures a place has in both periods. Only places with more improvements than declines and a rise in standing are listed. Standings are relative, so a place can improve in absolute terms and still lose standing.

Who lives here

Age, race and education of residents, from the American Community Survey. Shares are of all residents (age), residents of every origin (race) or adults 25 and over (education).

Age and sex

6,212 residents (±728)

Men
Women

80 and over†
70–79†
60–69†

Income

How household income is spread, not just the middle: each bar is the share of households in that income range.

Household income

2,235 households (±245)

Brookhaven, West Virginia
West Virginia share

Under $25k14%†315
$25k–50k13%†299
$50k–75k

Homes

Who owns and who rents, what homes cost, and what the housing stock looks like.

Owners and renters

2,235 households (±245)

Brookhaven, West Virginia
West Virginia share

Own83%1,855
Rent17%†380

No change since 2015–2019 is larger than the margin of error.

† Wide margin of error (more than 30% of the estimate): read with care.

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Getting to work

How workers travel to their job and how long it takes them.

How people get to work

2,869 workers (±486)

Brookhaven, West Virginia
West Virginia share

Drive alone69%1,969
Carpool14%†416
Public transit1.6%†

Jobs and pay

What the largest occupations here pay, from the Bureau of Labor Statistics' Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics survey.

The Bureau of Labor Statistics publishes pay by metro area, not by county or city. The metro area page lists its largest occupations and lets you look up any job.

Pay in the Morgantown, WV

Local businesses

Employer businesses and sole proprietors by industry, per resident and against the state and the nation. Counts of businesses next to counts of people, not a measure of demand.

The Census Bureau publishes business counts by county, not by city, so these are the figures of Monongalia County, the county holding most of Brookhaven's residents.

Monongalia County has 2,481 employer establishments, 231 for every 10,000 residents (0.93× the US rate of 248; 1.14× West Virginia's), with 50,567 paid employees at an average annual pay of $58,662. The Census Bureau also counts 6,824 nonemployer businesses, mostly sole proprietors.

Establishments: 2,481; 6,824 nonemployers
Per 10,000 residents: 231; US 248 · West Virginia 202
Paid employees: 50,567
Average annual pay: $58,662; US $68,342

Employer establishments, employees, average pay and nonemployers of Monongalia County by industry, with the density per resident against the nation

Restaurants and other eating places	252	23.5	1.28×More than typical	5,244	$20,163	29
Ambulatory health care services	202	18.8	0.90×About typical	6,218	$125,778	381
Lessors of real estate	151	14.1	1.14×About typical	644	$50,054	887
Specialty trade contractors	120	11.2	0.72×Fewer than typical	1,369	$63,304	283
Limited-service restaurants	117	10.9	1.36×More than typical	2,044	$18,442	14
Full-service restaurants	109	10.1	1.32×More than typical	2,781	$22,074	9
Construction of buildings	101	9.4	1.24×About typical	594	$58,640	147
Legal services	68	6.3	1.18×About typical	385	$80,039	107
Religious organizations	66	6.1	1.11×About typical	403	$22,695	—
Offices of physicians	60	5.6	0.86×About typical	3,354	$169,717	112
Services to buildings and dwellings	60	5.6	0.83×About typical	590	$27,224	271
Offices of other health practitioners	56	5.2	0.86×About typical	395	$40,987	204

Rank places for an industry Open Monongalia County

County Business Patterns (2023); Nonemployer Statistics (2024)

Per-resident figures divide by the population estimate of 2023: 107,450 residents here, 336,755,052 in the United States. County Business Patterns counts establishments in 2023; the Nonemployer Statistics count businesses in 2024.
“More than typical” is a density at least 1.25 times the nation's per resident, “fewer” at most 0.8 times, with at least 10 establishments. It compares counts of businesses with counts of people: it says nothing about demand, incomes, size, quality or profit, and visitors and commuters are not residents.
The Census Bureau adds noise to employment and payroll to protect confidentiality, and withholds some figures: an industry with few establishments can show employees or pay as unavailable.
Industries overlap: a narrower industry (full-service restaurants) is part of a broader one (restaurants), so the rows do not add up.
Industries follow the North American Industry Classification System; the two surveys use different editions (NAICS 2017 and 2022), which this page matches industry by industry.

Federal contracts performed here

In FY2026, an estimated $105.2K of federal contract obligations were for work performed in Brookhaven, West Virginia: $16.94 per resident (US $1,994).

Obligations: $105.2K; +25% vs FY2025
Per resident: $16.94; US $1,994
Sole-source: 64%; US 30%
Single offer: 0.0%; US 8.8%

A signal is a reason to look closer, not evidence of wrongdoing: most sole-source awards are lawful and justified.

Top buying agencies

Federal Prison System / Bureau of Prisons$60.5K58%
Federal Bureau of Investigation$23.2K22%
Department of the Army$11.9K11%
Department of Energy$5,3425.1%
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention$4,2824.1%

Top recipients

WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CORPORATION$53K50%
AGILE5 TECHNOLOGIES INC$23.2K22%
STERILE SERVICES CO$9,3658.9%
ORANGE CONSTRUCTION CORP$7,4897.1%
CANON MEDICAL SYSTEMS USA, INC$5,3425.1%

Spending by fiscal year

60.6KFY2017
139.9KFY2018
84.8KFY2019
37.4KFY2020
51.7KFY2021
40.8KFY2022
73.5KFY2023
73.5KFY2024

Top industries (NAICS)

General medical and surgical hospitals · 6221$53K50%
Computer systems design and related services · 5415$23.2K22%
Converted paper product manufacturing · 3222$9,3658.9%
Building equipment contractors · 2382$7,4897.1%
Electronic and precision equipment repair and maintenance · 8112$5,3425.1%

Source: Federal contract transactions (Federal Procurement Data System) (U.S. Department of the Treasury, USAspending.gov), data current to Oct 3, 2026, loaded Oct 3, 2026.

How this is estimated

Agencies report each contract action's place of performance as a county and a ZIP code. A ZIP code's money is split among the cities it covers by the share of its land inside each (Census 2020 ZIP code tabulation areas); the part outside city limits stays with the county.

The place of performance is what the contracting agency reports, often the contractor's office rather than where the work happens.
Shares are of land, not of people or businesses: a ZIP code that is mostly rural land but has its offices in town gives the town less than it should.
ZIP codes that are not mapped areas (post office boxes, the unique ZIP codes of large federal sites and companies) stay with their county, unless one city covers nearly all of it.
Counts of actions and awards include those only partly in Brookhaven, West Virginia, so they do not add up across cities.

Brookhaven, West Virginia's figures are part of those of Monongalia County, WV ($413M in FY2026), never added to them: 0.0% of that total.

Grants and other federal assistance are counted by county here, not split among cities: Brookhaven is mostly in Monongalia County.

See federal money in Monongalia County

Representation in Congress

Members serving today, with their record in the current Congress (party-unity votes cast with their caucus, roll calls missed). Not a grade.

Brookhaven, West Virginia is represented in the 119th Congress by these members.

House

Riley M. MooreR-WV-2 · 100% of residentsWith party 97%Missed 1.8%

Senate

Explore Congress The 2026 races

County

A city can lie in several counties. Some indicators are published for counties only: the page marks them.

Monongalia County69100% of residents

Metro area

The metro or micro area the city belongs to.

Morgantown, WV70

Other cities and towns in Monongalia County

Largest first.

Similar cities and towns

Closest indicator profiles across the country (no model: score distances).

Data and sources

Latest published value of each indicator; periods differ by source. Values flagged by their publisher are marked.

PLACES: Local Data for Better HealthCenters for Disease Control and Prevention · release 2025
Local Area Unemployment StatisticsU.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics · release 2025
American Community Survey 5-Year EstimatesU.S. Census Bureau · release 2017-2024
Population Estimates ProgramU.S. Census Bureau · release 2025
Small Area Health Insurance EstimatesU.S. Census Bureau · release 2024
Small Area Income and Poverty EstimatesU.S. Census Bureau · release 2024
County Health Rankings & RoadmapsUniversity of Wisconsin Population Health Institute · release 2022-2025+2026-03-supplement

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