City · Wood County, West Virginia

Vienna, West Virginia

Vienna is a city in Wood County, West Virginia, part of the Parkersburg-Vienna, WV metro area. It has 10,518 residents. Vienna, West Virginia has a quality-of-life score of 35 out of 100 (low), ranking #10,243 of 15,651 US cities and towns. Within West Virginia it ranks #46 of 150 cities and towns. It ranks best on drought exposure (low), social associations (high) and arts, entertainment and recreation (high). It ranks worst on depression (high), drug overdose deaths (high) and income inequality (Gini index) (high).

35Low

Quality-of-life score: #10,243 of 15,651 cities and towns
West Virginia: #46 of 150 in WV
Population: 10,518 (2020-2024)
Land area: 4 mi²
Density: 2,651.0 /mi²
FIPS code: 5483500

Percentile-based score (100 is the best in the country) from 76 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.

Safety39#9,520/15,637
Economy38#9,638/15,631
Housing53#7,082/14,977
Health12#13,690/15,609
Healthcare36#9,951/15,650
Environment30#10,867/15,453
Education67#5,160/15,649
Infrastructure40#9,364/15,650
Community44#8,777/15,651
Leisure & amenities60#6,331/15,651

Strengths · Weaknesses

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

Drought exposure · low0%
98/100West Virginia 31%United States 43%Oct 2025–Sep 2026National Drought Mitigation Center (University of Nebraska–Lincoln), USDA and NOAAWood County value
Social associations · high16.6 /10k
95/100West Virginia 12.5 /10kUnited States 9.1 /10k2023University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteWood County value
Arts, entertainment and recreation · high7.9 /10k
92/100West Virginia 5.9 /10kUnited States 5.5 /10k2025U.S. Bureau of Labor StatisticsWood County value
Mammography screening · high55.0%
91/100West Virginia 45.0%United States 46.0%2023University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteWood County value
Days with unhealthy air · low0.0%
84/1002025U.S. Environmental Protection AgencyWood County value
Pharmacies · high2.3 /10k
84/100West Virginia 2.8 /10kUnited States 1.8 /10k2025U.S. Bureau of Labor StatisticsWood County value

Weaknesses

Depression · high32.4%
1/100West Virginia 31.9%United States 20.7%2023Centers for Disease Control and PreventionModel-based estimate
Drug overdose deaths · high43.3 /100k
2/100West Virginia 36.6 /100kUnited States 18.4 /100kMar 2025–Feb 2026Centers for Disease Control and PreventionProvisional dataWood County value
Income inequality (Gini index) · high0.518
3/100West Virginia 0.471United States 0.4832020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B19083
Comfortable days · low22.2%
4/100West Virginia 24.4%United States 26.8%2016-2025NOAA National Centers for Environmental InformationWood County value
Preventable hospital stays · high4,522 /100k
4/100West Virginia 4,063 /100kUnited States 2,769 /100k2023University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteWood County value
Hospital quality rating · low2.0
9/100West Virginia 2.8United States 3.2Jul 2026Centers for Medicare & Medicaid ServicesWood County value

Trends

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

Rent-burdened householdsWorsening
37.6% (2015-2019) → 56.0% (2020-2024)
+18 pts5 yearsCensus table B25070US 49.6% → 51.1%
New homes permittedImproving
0.5 /1k (2021) → 0.7 /1k (Sep 2025–Aug 2026)
+42%5 yearsUS 5.2 /1k → 4.2 /1k
Rent as share of incomeWorsening
24.0% (2015-2019) → 31.9% (2020-2024)
+7.9 pts5 yearsCensus table B25071US 29.8% → 30.6%
Child poverty rateImproving
10.5% (2015-2019) → 5.7% (2020-2024)
−4.8 pts5 yearsCensus table B17001US 16.8% → 15.5%
Average commute timeWorsening
17.4 min (2015-2019) → 20.5 min (2020-2024)
+18%5 yearsCensus table B08013US 26.9 min → 26.4 min
Broadband subscriptionsImproving
84.5% (2015-2019) → 87.8% (2020-2024)
+3.4 pts5 yearsCensus table B28002US 82.7% → 91.0%

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, Vienna, West Virginia improved on 0 of 13 measures with a comparison and declined on 1. 12 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.

Improved0

No measure improved by more than its margin of error.

Declined1

Rent / income+7.9 points24.0% → 31.9%

All 13 measures

Change of every measure of Vienna, West Virginia between two periods about five years apart
Measure	Before	After	Change	Reading	Favourable vs peers
Average commute time	17.4 min2015-2019	20.5 min2020-2024	+3.2 min	Within the margin of error	19%
Bachelor's degree or higher	33.1%2015-2019	31.4%2020-2024	−1.7 points	Within the margin of error	17%
Broadband subscriptions	84.5%2015-2019	87.8%2020-2024	+3.4 points	Within the margin of error	22%
Effective property tax rate	0.78%2015-2019	0.65%2020-2024	−0.1 points	Within the margin of error	43%
High school diploma or higher	94.6%2015-2019	95.9%2020-2024	+1.3 points	Within the margin of error	50%
Home price to income ratio	2.4×2015-2019	2.6×2020-2024	+0.1×	Within the margin of error	73%
Income inequality (Gini index)	0.4772015-2019	0.5182020-2024	+0.040	Within the margin of error	21%
Median household income	$55,5622015-2019	$60,3882020-2024	+8.7%	Within the margin of error	15%
Poverty rate	9.9%2015-2019	10.2%2020-2024	+0.3 points	Within the margin of error	41%
Rent as share of income	24.0%2015-2019	31.9%2020-2024	+7.9 points	Declined	13%
Rent-burdened households	37.6%2015-2019	56.0%2020-2024	+18 points	Within the margin of error	10%
Unemployment rate	3.7%2015-2019	3.5%2020-2024	−0.2 points	Within the margin of error	54%
Uninsured residents (under 65)	5.7%2015-2019	7.5%2020-2024	+1.8 points	Within the margin of error	27%

“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 Vienna, West Virginia five years ago that improved

The places whose measures looked most like those of Vienna, 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, Vienna, West Virginia itself moved −16.3 points in standing on average over the same 10 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

10,518 residents (±22)

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

4,699 households (±281)

Vienna, West Virginia
West Virginia share

Under $25k22%1,011
$25k–50k22%1,034
$50k–75k16%770

Homes

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

Owners and renters

4,699 households (±281)

Vienna, West Virginia
West Virginia share

Own76%3,567
Rent24%1,132

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

Table view

Getting to work

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

How people get to work

4,962 workers (±297)

Vienna, West Virginia
West Virginia share

Drive alone79%3,897
Carpool7.9%†394
Public transit0.8%†

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 Parkersburg-Vienna, 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 Wood County, the county holding most of Vienna's residents.

Wood County has 1,901 employer establishments, 229 for every 10,000 residents (0.92× the US rate of 248; 1.13× West Virginia's), with 29,785 paid employees at an average annual pay of $45,597. The Census Bureau also counts 4,246 nonemployer businesses, mostly sole proprietors.

Establishments: 1,901; 4,246 nonemployers
Per 10,000 residents: 229; US 248 · West Virginia 202
Paid employees: 29,785
Average annual pay: $45,597; US $68,342

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

Ambulatory health care services	182	21.9	1.05×About typical	2,544	$74,403	200
Restaurants and other eating places	166	20	1.09×About typical	3,808	$17,717	20
Religious organizations	92	11.1	2.00×More than typical	544	$19,572	—
Limited-service restaurants	79	9.5	1.19×About typical	1,853	$15,644	11
Specialty trade contractors	71	8.6	0.55×Fewer than typical	697	$57,339	227
Offices of physicians	65	7.8	1.21×About typical	688	$145,552	46
Full-service restaurants	64	7.7	1.00×About typical	1,727	$20,137	4
Offices of other health practitioners	53	6.4	1.05×About typical	378	$43,738	96
Lessors of real estate	52	6.3	0.51×Fewer than typical	212	$36,571	429
Construction of buildings	49	5.9	0.78×Fewer than typical	289	$48,661	115
Legal services	45	5.4	1.01×About typical	329	$53,210	42
Automotive repair and maintenance	43	5.2	1.03×About typical	249	$35,876	78

Rank places for an industry Open Wood County

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

Per-resident figures divide by the population estimate of 2023: 83,015 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 Vienna, West Virginia: $0 per resident (US $1,994).

Obligations: $0
Per resident: $0; US $1,994
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

9.1KFY2017
42.7KFY2018
-4.7FY2019

What was bought

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 Vienna, West Virginia, so they do not add up across cities.

Vienna, West Virginia's figures are part of those of Wood County, WV ($36M 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: Vienna is mostly in Wood County.

See federal money in Wood 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.

Vienna, 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.

Wood County43100% of residents

Metro area

The metro or micro area the city belongs to.

Parkersburg-Vienna, WV47

Other cities and towns in Wood 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
Building Permits SurveyU.S. Census Bureau · release 2026-08
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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