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On July 21, 2023, the OMB delineated five combined statistical areas, 10 metropolitan statistical areas, and five micropolitan statistical areas in West Virginia. [1] As of 2023, the largest of these is the Charleston-Huntington-Ashland, WV-OH-KY CSA , which includes West Virginia's capital and largest city, Charleston .
As of the 2020 United States census, West Virginia's population was 1,793,716, a 3.2% decrease from the 2010 United States census. [74] West Virginia's center of population is in Gassaway. [75] According to HUD's 2022 Annual Homeless Assessment Report, there were an estimated 1,375 homeless people in West Virginia. [76] [77]
West Virginia has a higher rate of people in poverty than the U.S. as a whole. West Virginia has less diversity in its population with a much higher percentage of non-Hispanic whites than the national average. In 2019, West Virginia had the lowest life expectancy of any U.S. state. [1] West Virginians have a life expectancy of four years less ...
The Bureau identified 169 CDPs in the state of West Virginia at the 2010 census. The Municipal Code of West Virginia, which governs incorporation, requires applicant municipal corporations (places for incorporation) that cover an area more than 1 square mile (2.6 km 2 ) to have a minimum of 500 inhabitants or freeholders per square mile, and ...
As of the census [2] of 2010, there were 107,342 people, 44,052 households, and 30,053 families residing within the μSA. The racial makeup of the μSA was 94.2% White, 5.5% African American, 0.6% Native American, 0.7% Asian, 0.0% Pacific Islander, 0.3% from other races, and 0.1% from two or more races.
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]
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The Clarksburg Micropolitan Statistical Area, as defined by the United States Census Bureau, is an area consisting of four counties in North-Central West Virginia, anchored by the city of Clarksburg. As of the 2000 census, the μSA had a population of 92,144 (though a July 1, 2009 estimate placed the population at 92,441). [1]