PlainZIP

Hometown, WV

Single-footprint Census roll-up for Hometown, WV: 1 USPS ZIP, population 661. Open the primary ZIP for household income, housing tenure, and commute from ACS 2023 5-Year Estimates.

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ACS city ledger plate

Sheet HOMETOWN-WV · Hometown, WV 1 ZIPs · 661 pop · #24882/25278 · Putnam County

INC-LOW · RANK-BOTTOM · BELOW-PEER · BOOK-ONE · OWN-LOW · POP-VILLAGE · SPREAD-UNK · HOME-LOW

  • INC-LOW $28,876
  • RANK-BOTTOM #24882/25278
  • BELOW-PEER under Liberty
  • BOOK-ONE 1 ZIP
  • OWN-LOW 55% owners
  • POP-VILLAGE 661
  • SPREAD-UNK Single-ZIP book
  • HOME-LOW $142,600

Nearest income peer: Liberty, WV (+ $21,721 income $)

Instrument codes from this city’s ACS household income, national rank, county-peer gap, ZIP book, owner tenure, population scale, intra-city income spread, and home-value band, not a moving recommendation.

Income neighbourhood around Hometown

Lowest/highest poles plus county-sharing cities nearest Hometown on average ZIP median household income. Full ladder: /cities.

median HH income

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Source U.S. Census Bureau · ACS 5-Year Estimates As of 2026-08-25

National city placement

According to ACS 5-Year Estimates, Hometown, WV sits among US cities with one of the lowest household incomes among US cities, on a village-scale population base, across a single-ZIP footprint.

2nd pct
household income vs 25,278 US cities
661
city population (Census)
1
USPS ZIP codes covered
$28,876
avg ZIP median income

Income percentile ranks this city's average ZIP median household income against 25,278 US cities with ACS income on at least one ZIP. Scale and ZIP-spread words come from Census population and USPS ZIP coverage.

Lower-income footing on only 1 ZIP ($28,876 average) · poverty 30.2%. The primary code (25109) carries the ACS household fields that matter.

Owner-occupancy is comparatively low (55.4%) for this income tier, rent - may matter more than the home-value average.

Within West Virginia, Kopperston is the closest lower-income city and Welch the closest higher-income city by average ZIP household income. Their 1 and 1 ZIP footprints are the immediate statewide comparison set for Hometown.

Population concentration

One ZIP, 25109, is all of Hometown

There is no split to weigh here: 25109 holds every one of Hometown's 661 ACS residents. City-level and ZIP-level numbers on this site are the same number twice, check the ZIP page for the income/tenure/commute breakdown.

Census ZBP business roll-up

No ZBP establishments filed for Hometown's ZIPs

Census County Business Patterns has no establishment rows joined to the ACS ZIPs mapped to Hometown. Read demography on this page; business counts are absent for this footprint.

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ZIP Codes in Hometown, WV

These ZIP codes sit in Putnam County, which covers 11 ZIP codes in all; 1 of them fall in Hometown. See the Putnam County roll-up →

Every one of the 10 cities sharing Putnam County reports a higher average ZIP median income than Hometown, Hurricane, Scott Depot and Winfield among them. That gap is the county's income spread, not a measure of the housing or commute picture below. Scott Depot marks the far end of that range at $103,160, 257% above Hometown.

ZIP Code Population Median income Establishments Density
25109 661 $28,876 n/a 329
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