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The proportion of West Virginia's adult population with a bachelor's degree is the lowest in the U.S., at 17.3%. [119] The net corporate income tax rate is 6.5% while business costs are 13% below the national average. [120] [121]
West Virginia is the 10th-smallest state by area and ranks as the 12th-least populous state, with a population of 1,793,716 residents. The capital and most populous city is Charleston with a population of 49,055. West Virginia was admitted to the Union on June 20, 1863, and was a key border state during the American Civil War.
This is a list of U.S. states and territories by historical population, as enumerated every decade by the United States Census. As required by the United States Constitution , a census has been conducted every 10 years since 1790.
Largest municipalities in West Virginia by population; ... Map of the United States with West Virginia highlighted. 2023 Rank City Type 2023 Estimate [1] 2020 Census
One advantage West Virginia has over other states is that it is not heavily populated — and living costs tend to go up in places with dense populations. The combined population of West Virginia ...
West Virginia is at the very bottom of that list, having just 16 women in its 134-member Legislature, or just under 12%. That’s compared with Nevada, where women occupy just over 60% of state ...
The U.S. state of West Virginia has 55 counties. Fifty of them existed at the time of the Wheeling Convention in 1861, during the American Civil War, when those counties seceded from the Commonwealth of Virginia to form the new state of West Virginia. [1] West Virginia was admitted as a separate state of the United States on June 20, 1863. [2]
Charleston is the capital and most populous city of the U.S. state of West Virginia and the seat of Kanawha County. [9] Located at the confluence of the Elk and Kanawha rivers. The population was 48,864 at the 2020 census. [5]