ZIP profile

Banking access in ZIP 26525

West Virginia · Preston WV. Source year 2025.

Banking-desert dominant

The published Financial Access Pressure Index is 84.4411. 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 index84.4411
National pressure rank#447 of 20,307
National percentile96.51
State pressure rank#4 of 216
State percentile98.15
Weighted banking-desert geography68.98%
Weighted potential-desert geography30.92%
Population banking-desert exposure67.18%
Population potential-desert exposure32.68%
Allocated population7,045.38
Allocated population in banking deserts4,732.80

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-Hispanic172.3978.0045.25%LIMITED
Asian non-Hispanic18.0218.0099.91%LIMITED
Black non-Hispanic1,461.481,461.0099.97%STANDARD
Residents with disabilities1,005.44527.0852.42%STANDARD
Hispanic473.83470.0099.19%LIMITED
Older residents948.88485.4951.16%LIMITED
Other race non-Hispanic0.020.000.00%LIMITED
People of color2,228.382,117.0095.00%STANDARD
Two or more races non-Hispanic101.1790.0088.96%LIMITED
White non-Hispanic4,817.002,615.8054.30%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 →