Logan, WV population, income and ZIP codes

Logan city is a small town in West Virginia, with 1,736 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #85 of 439 ranked by population — larger than 80% of them. The median age here is 33.6 years against 39.1 nationally, a slightly younger profile than the country as a whole. 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 Logan city earn a median of $31,100 a year, 60.4% below the national figure of $78,538 and 41% below the $52,974 median for the 148 West Virginia cities we cover. This figure covers the household, not the worker: two people on ordinary wages at one address outrank a single professional in the same table. Poverty reaches 38.5% of residents here, well above the 12.4% national rate, which is the single clearest signal in this dataset that median income here is carried by a narrow band of households.

The typical owner-occupied home in Logan city is valued at $86,300, 71.6% below the national figure and 32% below the $127,200 peer median, while median gross rent runs $891 a month, 36.6% below the national figure, or roughly $10,692 across a full year. A household on the local median income would put about 34.4% of gross pay toward that rent against the federal 30% cost-burden threshold, so renting here is a stretch on median earnings. The home-price-to-income ratio works out to 2.8×, against roughly 3.9× nationally, so buying is easier here than in the average US market. 48.4% of occupied homes are owner-occupied versus 65% nationally, so the market leans more heavily on renters. Rent is reported gross — contract rent plus tenant-paid utilities — which is why it runs above the advertised price on a listing for the same unit.

Logan city is the unusual combination of expensive to rent and cheap to buy: rent takes 34.4% of median income while homes cost only 2.8× it. Where that pattern shows up, the gap is normally down to down-payment and credit barriers rather than price.

No figure on this page is estimated by us; each one comes straight from the published ACS tables for this area. Small-area estimates still carry wider margins of error than state or national figures, so check the linked ACS tables before relying on them for lending, appraisal or legal work.