ZIP profile

Banking access in ZIP 26444

West Virginia · Preston WV. Source year 2025.

Potential-desert dominant

The published Financial Access Pressure Index is 54.6368. Higher values indicate more measured physical banking-access pressure. This measure does not identify bank branches, drive-through hours, individual banking behavior, or overall neighborhood quality.

Banking-access measures

Pressure index54.6368
National pressure rank#1,043 of 20,307
National percentile93.55
State pressure rank#12 of 216
State percentile94.44
Weighted banking-desert geography28.75%
Weighted potential-desert geography51.77%
Population banking-desert exposure31.16%
Population potential-desert exposure40.94%
Allocated population3,315.99
Allocated population in banking deserts1,033.30

Geographic shares and population shares use different denominators. Published ranks and percentiles are preserved, including ties. Population estimates are displayed to two decimals; exact source values are in the downloads.

People & financial access

Estimated population-group exposure to banking-desert geography. These are allocated estimates, not counts of unbanked people. Groups overlap and must not be added together.

Population groupRepresented estimateExposed estimateExposure shareEvidence tier
American Indian / Alaska Native non-Hispanic6.546.0091.81%LIMITED
Asian non-Hispanic7.260.000.00%LIMITED
Black non-Hispanic18.090.000.00%LIMITED
Residents with disabilities678.29177.4226.16%LIMITED
Hispanic3.690.308.14%LIMITED
Older residents728.34176.8224.28%LIMITED
Other race non-Hispanic0.000.00UnavailableNOT_AVAILABLE
People of color68.5217.7125.85%LIMITED
Two or more races non-Hispanic31.1611.4136.61%LIMITED
White non-Hispanic3,247.471,015.5931.27%STANDARD

Evidence tiers are passed through from the source. Missing ranks or rates remain unavailable. A zero exposure share does not guarantee that a branch is open or nearby.

Source year: 2025 in the governed ZIP profile view. Exported October 13, 2026; the export date is not an observation date. Population figures are allocated estimates; groups can overlap. Sources and interpretation →