Business Automation And Custom Software In West Virginia

West Virginia counted 35,839 employer establishments in the 2023 Census County Business Patterns, and 34,070 of them have fewer than 50 employees, about 95% of the total. The state's economic development division says West Virginia is widely recognized as the birthplace of the modern chemical and polymer industries, sitting above the Marcellus and Utica shale gas fields, with chemical industrial parks offering co-location and shared infrastructure and services. The same agency ranks the state fifth in the nation in total energy production, the second-largest coal producer and the seventh-largest natural gas producing state. Around those anchors, health care is the largest employer among the sectors tracked here: 5,019 employer establishments employing 139,754 people statewide.