Brooke County
West Virginia · County seat: Wellsburg · Active county or equivalent
FIPS code 54009 is Brooke County, West Virginia. With a population of 22,349 (2022 ACS estimate), it ranks #28 in West Virginia and #1747 nationally. Brooke County is part of the Weirton-Steubenville, WV-OH. The state FIPS code for West Virginia is 54. This code is used in Census Bureau, BLS, EPA, HUD, and USDA federal datasets to identify this county.
County FIPS
54009
Population
22,349
2022 ACS · #1747 nationally
Density
250.5/mi²
people per sq mile
Land Area
89
sq miles
Urban/Rural
Metro — under 250K population
RUCC 3
How This FIPS Code Works
The 5-digit FIPS code 54009 is formed by combining the 2-digit state identifier 54 (West Virginia) with the 3-digit county identifier 009. Together they uniquely identify Brooke County in every US federal dataset. No two counties share the same 5-digit FIPS code.
Census ACS Data for FIPS 54009
From the 2022 ACS 5-year estimates — the same values you'd retrieve by querying the Census API with county FIPS 54009.
Median Household Income
$51,963
ACS B19013_001E
Poverty Rate
11.0%
ACS B17001 (below poverty level)
Median Age
46.4
ACS B01002_001E
Metropolitan Area
Adjacent Counties (4)
Counties that share a border with Brooke County. Useful for regional analysis — these are the geographies you'd typically include when studying labor markets, commuting zones, or environmental spillovers around FIPS 54009.
Federal Datasets Using Code 54009
FIPS code 54009 appears as the county identifier in the following federal datasets. Analysts joining data across these sources use this code as the common geographic key.
Using FIPS Code 54009 in Code
Common patterns for querying federal datasets by this county's FIPS code. The leading zeros are significant — always treat FIPS codes as strings, not integers.
import requests
url = "https://api.census.gov/data/2022/acs/acs5"
params = {
"get": "NAME,B19013_001E,B01003_001E",
"for": "county:009",
"in": "state:54",
"key": "YOUR_CENSUS_API_KEY",
}
r = requests.get(url, params=params)
data = r.json() # [[header...], [Brooke County, West Virginia, income, pop, ...]-- 5-digit combined FIPS (state + county)
SELECT * FROM your_table WHERE county_fips = '54009';
-- Some datasets store state and county separately
SELECT * FROM your_table
WHERE state_fips = '54'
AND county_fips = '009';
-- ⚠ Never cast to integer — leading zeros are lost:
-- county_fips = 54009 is WRONG for this countylibrary(tidycensus)
get_acs(
geography = "county",
variables = c(income = "B19013_001E", pop = "B01003_001E"),
state = "54",
county = "009",
year = 2022
)ZIP Codes in Brooke County
ZIP codes do not align perfectly with county boundaries — a single ZIP code can span multiple counties, and a county can contain parts of many ZIP codes. The ratios below (from the Census 2020 ZCTA relationship file) show the land area share of each ZCTA that falls within Brooke County. Why FIPS ≠ ZIP →
| ZIP Code | % in county |
|---|---|
| 26075 | 100.0% |
| 26030 | 100.0% |
| 26037 | 100.0% |
| 26058 | 100.0% |
| 26070 | 100.0% |
| 26035 | 100.0% |
| 26032 | 89.5% |
| 26062 | 23.3% |
| 26003 | 4.2% |