Census-designated place · Brooke County, West Virginia

Hooverson Heights, West Virginia

Hooverson Heights is a census-designated place in Brooke County, West Virginia, part of the Weirton-Steubenville, WV-OH metro area. It has 2,090 residents. Hooverson Heights, West Virginia has a quality-of-life score of 31 out of 100 (low), ranking #10,849 of 15,651 US cities and towns. Within West Virginia it ranks #54 of 150 cities and towns. It ranks best on pharmacies (high), arts, entertainment and recreation (high) and homicide rate (low). It ranks worst on new business applications (low), preventable hospital stays (high) and depression (high).

31Low

Quality-of-life score: #10,849 of 15,651 cities and towns
West Virginia: #54 of 150 in WV
Population: 2,090 (2020-2024)
Land area: 2 mi²
Density: 924.5 /mi²
FIPS code: 5438476

Percentile-based score (100 is the best in the country) from 73 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.

Safety80#3,199/15,637
Economy13#13,609/15,631
Housing89#1,585/14,977
Health8#14,427/15,609
Healthcare19#12,699/15,650
Environment28#11,197/15,453
Education21#12,295/15,649
Infrastructure29#11,084/15,650
Community37#9,869/15,651
Leisure & amenities78#3,394/15,651

Strengths · Weaknesses

Indicators where Hooverson Heights, West Virginia ranks highest and lowest among US cities and towns (score = percentile, 100 = best). Values marked “Brooke 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

Pharmacies · high3.8 /10k
99/100West Virginia 2.8 /10kUnited States 1.8 /10k2025U.S. Bureau of Labor StatisticsBrooke County value
Arts, entertainment and recreation · high12.3 /10k
97/100West Virginia 5.9 /10kUnited States 5.5 /10k2025U.S. Bureau of Labor StatisticsBrooke County value
Homicide rate · low0.0 /100k
94/100West Virginia 3.2 /100kUnited States 4.8 /100kMay 2025–Apr 2026Centers for Disease Control and PreventionProvisional dataBrooke County value
Effective property tax rate · low0.43%
92/100West Virginia 0.50%United States 0.94%2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B25090
Property crime rate · low465 /100k
91/100West Virginia 1,053 /100kUnited States 1,535 /100k2025Federal Bureau of InvestigationBrooke County value
Social associations · high14.0 /10k
87/100West Virginia 12.5 /10kUnited States 9.1 /10k2023University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteBrooke County value

Weaknesses

New business applications · low5.9 /1k
0/100West Virginia 9.3 /1kUnited States 16.6 /1k2025U.S. Census BureauBrooke County value
Preventable hospital stays · high5,959 /100k
0/100West Virginia 4,063 /100kUnited States 2,769 /100k2023University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteBrooke County value
Depression · high31.4%
1/100West Virginia 31.9%United States 20.7%2023Centers for Disease Control and PreventionModel-based estimate
Public EV charging ports · low0.0 /10k
3/100West Virginia 3.1 /10kUnited States 7.6 /10kOct 2026U.S. Department of EnergyBrooke County value
Frequent mental distress · high22.5%
4/100West Virginia 23.4%United States 18.6%2023University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteModel-based estimate
Gyms and fitness centers · low0.0 /10k
4/100West Virginia 0.8 /10kUnited States 1.3 /10k2025U.S. Bureau of Labor StatisticsBrooke County value

Trends

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

PopulationFalling
2,581 (2015-2019) → 2,090 (2020-2024)
−19%5 yearsCensus table B01003US 328,329,953 → 340,003,797
Broadband subscriptionsImproving
69.8% (2015-2019) → 87.4% (2020-2024)
+18 pts5 yearsCensus table B28002US 82.7% → 91.0%
Rent-burdened householdsImproving
47.1% (2015-2019) → 30.3% (2020-2024)
−17 pts5 yearsCensus table B25070US 49.6% → 51.1%
Home price to income ratioWorsening
1.4× (2015-2019) → 2.5× (2020-2024)
+83%5 yearsCensus table B25077US 3.5× → 4.1×
High school diploma or higherWorsening
93.1% (2015-2019) → 86.5% (2020-2024)
−6.6 pts5 yearsCensus table B15003US 88.0% → 89.6%
Unemployment rateWorsening
3.0% (2015-2019) → 8.4% (2020-2024)
+5.4 pts5 yearsCensus table B23025US 3.7% → 4.0%

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, Hooverson Heights, West Virginia improved on 1 of 11 measures with a comparison and declined on 1. 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+18 points69.8% → 87.4%

Declined1

Price / income+1.2×1.4× → 2.5×

All 11 measures

Change of every measure of Hooverson Heights, West Virginia between two periods about five years apart
Measure	Before	After	Change	Reading	Favourable vs peers
Average commute time	24.6 min2015-2019	26.5 min2020-2024	+1.9 min	Within the margin of error	28%
Bachelor's degree or higher	14.2%2015-2019	15.9%2020-2024	+1.7 points	Within the margin of error	40%
Broadband subscriptions	69.8%2015-2019	87.4%2020-2024	+18 points	Improved	86%
Effective property tax rate	0.54%2015-2019	0.43%2020-2024	−0.1 points	Within the margin of error	38%
High school diploma or higher	93.1%2015-2019	86.5%2020-2024	−6.6 points	Within the margin of error	4%
Home price to income ratio	1.4×2015-2019	2.5×2020-2024	+1.2×	Declined	17%
Income inequality (Gini index)	0.3802015-2019	0.4242020-2024	+0.044	Within the margin of error	19%
Median household income	$58,2812015-2019	$60,7812020-2024	+4.3%	Within the margin of error	11%
Poverty rate	13.4%2015-2019	13.8%2020-2024	+0.3 points	Within the margin of error	40%
Public transit commuters	0.0%2015-2019	0.0%2020-2024	0 points	Within the margin of error	60%
Rent-burdened households	47.1%2015-2019	30.3%2020-2024	−17 points	Within the margin of error	91%

“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 Hooverson Heights, West Virginia five years ago that improved

The places whose measures looked most like those of Hooverson Heights, 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, Hooverson Heights, West Virginia itself moved −7.8 points in standing on average over the same 9 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

2,090 residents (±339)

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

932 households (±154)

Hooverson Heights, West Virginia
West Virginia share

Under $25k14%†134
$25k–50k29%†267
$50k–75k

Homes

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

Owners and renters

932 households (±154)

Hooverson Heights, West Virginia
West Virginia share

Own72%671
Rent28%†261

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

902 workers (±238)

Hooverson Heights, West Virginia
West Virginia share

Drive alone72%†651
Carpool12%†105
Public transit

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 Weirton-Steubenville, WV-OH

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 Brooke County, the county holding most of Hooverson Heights's residents.

Brooke County has 366 employer establishments, 171 for every 10,000 residents (0.69× the US rate of 248; 0.84× West Virginia's), with 6,041 paid employees at an average annual pay of $45,183. The Census Bureau also counts 925 nonemployer businesses, mostly sole proprietors.

Establishments: 366; 925 nonemployers
Per 10,000 residents: 171; US 248 · West Virginia 202
Paid employees: 6,041
Average annual pay: $45,183; US $68,342

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

Restaurants and other eating places	35	16.3	0.89×About typical	539	$18,180	6
Ambulatory health care services	33	15.4	0.74×Fewer than typical	413	$93,031	44
Religious organizations	23	10.7	1.94×More than typical	75	$16,000	—
Limited-service restaurants	21	9.8	1.22×About typical	229	$16,983	—
Construction of buildings	19	8.9	1.17×About typical	75	$52,533	25
Offices of physicians	16	7.5	1.15×About typical	264	$124,212	11
Fabricated metal product manufacturing	14	6.5	4.09×More than typical	615	$85,075	3
Full-service restaurants	13	6.1	0.79×Fewer than typical	301	$19,395	—
Amusement, gambling and recreation industries	12	5.6	2.11×More than typical	86	$17,012	12
Specialty trade contractors	12	5.6	0.36×Fewer than typical	72	$47,236	46
Gasoline stations	11	5.1	1.58×More than typical	105	$29,800	—
Offices of other health practitioners	10	4.7	0.77×Fewer than typical	37	$35,189	13

Rank places for an industry Open Brooke County

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

Per-resident figures divide by the population estimate of 2023: 21,423 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 $0 of federal contract obligations were for work performed in Hooverson Heights, West Virginia: $0 per resident (US $2,007).

Obligations: $0
Per resident: $0; US $2,007
Sole-source: —; US 30%
Single offer: —; US 8.7%

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

Top buying agencies

Top recipients

Spending by fiscal year

990.2FY2017

What was bought

Source: Federal contract transactions (Federal Procurement Data System) (U.S. Department of the Treasury, USAspending.gov), data current to Oct 9, 2026, loaded Oct 9, 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 Hooverson Heights, West Virginia, so they do not add up across cities.

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

See federal money in Brooke 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.

Hooverson Heights, 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.

Brooke County46100% of residents

Metro area

The metro or micro area the city belongs to.

Weirton-Steubenville, WV-OH41

Other cities and towns in Brooke 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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