Lost Creek, WV population, income and ZIP codes

Lost Creek town is a very small community in West Virginia, with 317 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #288 of 439 ranked by population — larger than 34% of them. The median age here is 40.4 years against 39.1 nationally, a slightly older 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 Lost Creek town earn a median of $68,750 a year, 12.5% below the national figure of $78,538 and 30% above 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 14.2% of residents here, above the 12.4% national rate.

The typical owner-occupied home in Lost Creek town is valued at $106,300, 65% below the national figure and 16% below the $127,200 peer median, while median gross rent runs not published a month. The home-price-to-income ratio works out to 1.5×, against roughly 3.9× nationally, so purchase prices are unusually low against local pay, the pattern in places where supply is plentiful and wage growth has been flat. 77% of occupied homes are owner-occupied versus 65% nationally, so the market leans toward owners. The rent line includes utilities paid by the tenant, a definition worth remembering when comparing it against a landlord's quoted rate.

With 317 residents, a handful of survey responses moves every median on this page. Compare Lost Creek town against its county rather than against national figures.

The Census withheld gross rent for Lost Creek town 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.