Census-designated place · Jefferson County, West Virginia

Shenandoah Junction, West Virginia

Shenandoah Junction is a census-designated place in Jefferson County, West Virginia, part of the Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV metro area. It has 1,141 residents. Shenandoah Junction, West Virginia has a quality-of-life score of 46 out of 100 (moderate), ranking #8,516 of 15,651 US cities and towns. Within West Virginia it ranks #21 of 150 cities and towns. It ranks best on uninsured residents (under 65) (low), unemployment rate (low) and child care cost burden (low). It ranks worst on hospital quality rating (low), depression (high) and rent as share of income (high).

46Moderate

Quality-of-life score: #8,516 of 15,651 cities and towns
West Virginia: #21 of 150 in WV
Population: 1,141 (2020-2024)
Land area: 1 mi²
Density: 1,126.8 /mi²
FIPS code: 5473444

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.

Safety71#4,522/15,637
Economy58#6,625/15,631
Housing43#8,585/14,977
Health28#11,198/15,609
Healthcare52#7,458/15,650
Environment55#6,954/15,453
Education16#13,180/15,649
Infrastructure68#5,044/15,650
Community32#10,689/15,651
Leisure & amenities57#6,741/15,651

Strengths · Weaknesses

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

Uninsured residents (under 65) · low0.0%
99/100West Virginia 7.3%United States 9.8%2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B27010
Unemployment rate · low0.0%
98/100West Virginia 4.3%United States 4.3%2020-2024U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics Census table B23025
Child care cost burden · low20.0%
94/100West Virginia 35.5%United States 27.9%2023 & 2024University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteJefferson County value
Mental health care shortage · low0.0
91/100West Virginia 14.6United States 9.9Oct 2026Health Resources and Services AdministrationJefferson County value
Home price to income ratio · low2.0×
87/100West Virginia 2.7×United States 4.1×2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B25077High uncertainty
Violent crime rate · low103 /100k
85/100West Virginia 242 /100kUnited States 328 /100k2025Federal Bureau of InvestigationJefferson County value

Weaknesses

Hospital quality rating · low1.0
1/100West Virginia 2.8United States 3.2Jul 2026Centers for Medicare & Medicaid ServicesJefferson County value
Depression · high30.6%
2/100West Virginia 31.9%United States 20.7%2023Centers for Disease Control and PreventionModel-based estimate
Rent as share of income · high51.0%
2/100West Virginia 29.4%United States 30.6%2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B25071
Drought exposure · high98%
3/100West Virginia 31%United States 43%Oct 2025–Sep 2026National Drought Mitigation Center (University of Nebraska–Lincoln), USDA and NOAAJefferson County value
Access to exercise opportunities · low35.1%
4/100West Virginia 58.8%United States 84.5%2022 & 2024University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteJefferson County value
Bachelor's degree or higher · low8.6%
6/100West Virginia 24.1%United States 35.7%2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B15003High uncertainty

Trends

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

PopulationRising
590 (2015-2019) → 1,141 (2020-2024)
+93%5 yearsCensus table B01003US 328,329,953 → 340,003,797
Rent-burdened householdsWorsening
50.8% (2015-2019) → 85.9% (2020-2024)
+35 pts5 yearsCensus table B25070US 49.6% → 51.1%
Rent as share of incomeWorsening
24.1% (2016-2020) → 51.0% (2020-2024)
+27 pts4 yearsCensus table B25071US 29.6% → 30.6%
Bachelor's degree or higherWorsening
20.6% (2015-2019) → 8.6% (2020-2024)
−12 pts5 yearsCensus table B15003US 32.1% → 35.7%
Uninsured residents (under 65)Improving
11.8% (2015-2019) → 0.0% (2020-2024)
−12 pts5 yearsCensus table B27010US 10.8% → 9.8%
Child poverty rateImproving
23.6% (2015-2019) → 14.9% (2020-2024)
−8.7 pts5 yearsCensus table B17001US 16.8% → 15.5%

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, Shenandoah Junction, West Virginia improved on 1 of 3 measures with a comparison and declined on 0. 2 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

Uninsured−12 points11.8% → 0.0%

Declined0

No measure declined by more than its margin of error.

All 3 measures

Change of every measure of Shenandoah Junction, West Virginia between two periods about five years apart
Measure	Before	After	Change	Reading	Favourable vs peers
Broadband subscriptions	93.6%2015-2019	95.5%2020-2024	+1.9 points	Within the margin of error	15%
Income inequality (Gini index)	0.4122015-2019	0.4972020-2024	+0.085	Within the margin of error	7%
Uninsured residents (under 65)	11.8%2015-2019	0.0%2020-2024	−12 points	Improved	98%

“Against peers” compares the change with the same change in the 15075 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 Shenandoah Junction, West Virginia five years ago that improved

The places whose measures looked most like those of Shenandoah Junction, 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.

No place that looked like Shenandoah Junction, West Virginia five years ago has more measures that improved than declined, with a higher standing among its peers today.

For comparison, Shenandoah Junction, West Virginia itself moved −28.4 points in standing on average over the same 2 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

1,141 residents (±824)

Men
Women

80 and over
70–79†
60–69†
50–59†
40–49†
30–39†
20–29†
10–19†
Under 10†

Share of all residents, each sex

Biggest shift since 2015–2019: 30–39 men (−22.4 points).

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

Table view

American Community Survey 5-year estimates, 2020–2024 · Table B01001View table on data.census.gov

Race and Hispanic origin

1,141 residents (±824)

Shenandoah Junction, West Virginia
West Virginia share

White94%†1,072
Black0.0%0
Hispanic or Latino2.6%†30

Education

660 residents (±445)

Shenandoah Junction, West Virginia
West Virginia share

No high school diploma3.0%†20
High school or GED42%†279
Some college

Counts are survey estimates, each with a margin of error. The grouping into ranges is ours; every count is the Census Bureau's.

Income

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

Household income

353 households (±178)

Shenandoah Junction, West Virginia
West Virginia share

Under $25k15%†52
$25k–50k23%†82
$50k–75k5.1%†18
$75k–100k7.4%†26
$100k–150k24%†86
$150k–200k0.0%0
$200k or more25%†89

Biggest shift since 2015–2019: $75k–100k (−31.5 points).

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

Table view

American Community Survey 5-year estimates, 2020–2024 · Table B19001View table on data.census.gov

Counts are survey estimates, each with a margin of error. The grouping into ranges is ours; every count is the Census Bureau's.

Homes

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

Owners and renters

353 households (±178)

Shenandoah Junction, West Virginia
West Virginia share

Own74%†261
Rent26%†92

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.

Table view

American Community Survey 5-year estimates, 2020–2024 · Table B25003View table on data.census.gov

Rent paid

92 households (±78)

Shenandoah Junction, West Virginia
West Virginia share

Under $7500.0%0
$750–1,0007.6%†7
$1,000–1,50086%†79

Home values

261 homes (±167)

Shenandoah Junction, West Virginia
West Virginia share

Under $150k27%†71
$150k–250k62%†161
$250k–400k11%†

Age of homes

375 homes (±181)

Shenandoah Junction, West Virginia
West Virginia share

2010 or later0.0%0
2000–200915%†55
1980–199933%†122

Size of homes

375 homes (±181)

Shenandoah Junction, West Virginia
West Virginia share

Studio0.0%0
1 bedroom0.0%0
2 bedrooms21%†77

Counts are survey estimates, each with a margin of error. The grouping into ranges is ours; every count is the Census Bureau's.

Getting to work

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

How people get to work

658 workers (±499)

Shenandoah Junction, West Virginia
West Virginia share

Drive alone89%†588
Carpool0.0%0
Public transit1.2%†8
Walk0.0%0
Bike0.0%0
Work from home9.4%†62
Other0.0%0

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.

Table view

American Community Survey 5-year estimates, 2020–2024 · Table B08301View table on data.census.gov

Time to get to work

596 workers (±484)

Shenandoah Junction, West Virginia
West Virginia share

Under 15 min32%†190
15–29 min49%†291
30–44 min8.4%†

Counts are survey estimates, each with a margin of error. The grouping into ranges is ours; every count is the Census Bureau's.

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 Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-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 Jefferson County, the county holding most of Shenandoah Junction's residents.

Jefferson County has 976 employer establishments, 163 for every 10,000 residents (0.66× the US rate of 248; 0.81× West Virginia's), with 13,457 paid employees at an average annual pay of $41,880. The Census Bureau also counts 4,599 nonemployer businesses, mostly sole proprietors.

Establishments: 976; 4,599 nonemployers
Per 10,000 residents: 163; US 248 · West Virginia 202
Paid employees: 13,457
Average annual pay: $41,880; US $68,342

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

Restaurants and other eating places	93	15.6	0.85×About typical	1,482	$19,243	11
Specialty trade contractors	68	11.4	0.74×Fewer than typical	258	$50,961	322
Ambulatory health care services	62	10.4	0.50×Fewer than typical	463	$71,952	170
Lessors of real estate	52	8.7	0.71×Fewer than typical	137	$40,241	452
Full-service restaurants	44	7.4	0.96×About typical	646	$22,254	7
Services to buildings and dwellings	40	6.7	0.99×About typical	382	$33,408	274
Religious organizations	37	6.2	1.12×About typical	207	$24,130	—
Limited-service restaurants	32	5.4	0.67×Fewer than typical	680	$17,393	—
Building equipment contractors	28	4.7	0.78×Fewer than typical	128	$60,125	70
Construction of buildings	28	4.7	0.62×Fewer than typical	120	$51,708	157
Real estate agents and brokers	25	4.2	0.86×About typical	43	$54,698	180
Automotive repair and maintenance	24	4	0.80×Fewer than typical	138	$48,986	36

Rank places for an industry Open Jefferson County

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

Per-resident figures divide by the population estimate of 2023: 59,730 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 Shenandoah Junction, West Virginia: $0 per resident (US $1,995).

Obligations: $0
Per resident: $0; US $1,995
Sole-source: —; US 30%
Single offer: —; 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

Top recipients

Spending by fiscal year

-5.5KFY2017
7.5KFY2021
2.3KFY2022
18.5KFY2023
3.4KFY2024
-10.9KFY2025

What was bought

Source: Federal contract transactions (Federal Procurement Data System) (U.S. Department of the Treasury, USAspending.gov), data current to Oct 6, 2026, loaded Oct 6, 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 Shenandoah Junction, West Virginia, so they do not add up across cities.

Shenandoah Junction, West Virginia's figures are part of those of Jefferson County, WV ($169.9M 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: Shenandoah Junction is mostly in Jefferson County.

See federal money in Jefferson 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.

Shenandoah Junction, 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.

Jefferson County69100% of residents

Metro area

The metro or micro area the city belongs to.

Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV86

Other cities and towns in Jefferson 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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