Ghent, WV population, income and ZIP codes

Ghent CDP is a very small community in West Virginia, with 363 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #276 of 439 ranked by population — larger than 37% of them. The median age here is 48.5 years against 39.1 nationally, a markedly older profile that usually tracks retirees staying put and younger households leaving for work. At this population the ACS sample is small, so the margin of error around every dollar figure below is wide — treat the numbers as a band, not a point, and expect them to move between annual releases without the place itself changing.

Households in Ghent CDP earn a median of $143,208 a year, 82.3% above the national figure of $78,538 and 170% above the $52,974 median for the 148 West Virginia cities we cover. Household income here is measured before tax and pooled across everyone at the address, which is why it reads higher than typical individual earnings in the same area. Poverty reaches 0% of residents here, less than half the 12.4% national rate.

The typical owner-occupied home in Ghent CDP is valued at $410,200, 35.2% above the national figure and 222% above the $127,200 peer median, while median gross rent runs not published a month. The home-price-to-income ratio works out to 2.9×, against roughly 3.9× nationally, so buying is easier here than in the average US market. 100% of occupied homes are owner-occupied versus 65% nationally, an owner-dominated market where rental listings are scarce and rent medians rest on a thin sample. Gross rent folds in the utilities a tenant pays separately, so it is closer to the real monthly outlay than a headline rent figure.

With 363 residents, a handful of survey responses moves every median on this page. Compare Ghent CDP against its county rather than against national figures.

The Census withheld gross rent for Ghent CDP because the sample was too thin to publish at this geography. Those values were suppressed at the source, not lost in our dataset, and we do not model a replacement. Everything else on this page comes straight from the ACS 2019-2023 ACS 5-year tables.