About Cheat Lake

Cheat Lake is a somewhat small town located in the state of West Virginia. With a population of 6,357 people and just one neighborhood, Cheat Lake is the 30th largest community in West Virginia.

Cheat Lake is a decidedly white-collar town, with fully 86.51% of the workforce employed in white-collar jobs, well above the national average. Overall, Cheat Lake is a town of professionals, sales and office workers, and managers. There are especially a lot of people living in Cheat Lake who work in management occupations (15.08%), office and administrative support jobs (14.98%), and healthcare (11.75%).

Cheat Lake is a small town, and as is often the case with smaller towns, the population isn't large or dense enough to support much in the way of a public transportation system. In fact, there are many rural roads around Cheat Lake, which makes walking or biking to and from work a bit difficult. This makes for a very car-oriented town: 99.18% of residents commute to work by private automobile, and people often drive out of town for work, shopping, and other activities.

Cheat Lake is a small town, and as such doesn't have a public transit system that people use to get to and from their jobs every day.

Cheat Lake Information and Demographics

The citizens of Cheat Lake are very well educated compared to the average community in the nation: 41.04% of adults in Cheat Lake have a bachelor's degree or even advanced degree.

The per capita income in Cheat Lake in 2000 was $30,210, which is wealthy relative to West Virginia and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $120,840 for a family of four.

The people who call Cheat Lake home come from a variety of different races and ancestries. The most prevalent race in Cheat Lake is White, followed by Asian. Important ancestries of people in Cheat Lake include German, English, Irish, Italian, and Polish.

The most common language spoken in Cheat Lake is English.