Cross Lanes is a somewhat small town located in the state of West Virginia. With a population of 10,091 people and two constituent neighborhoods, Cross Lanes is the 19th largest community in West Virginia.

Unlike some towns where white-collar or blue-collar occupations dominate the local economy, Cross Lanes is neither predominently one or the other. Instead, it has a mixed workforce of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Cross Lanes is a town of sales and office workers, professionals, and managers. There are especially a lot of people living in Cross Lanes who work in office and administrative support jobs (16.90%), sales jobs (13.77%), and management occupations (10.24%).

Also of interest is that Cross Lanes has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US.

Cross Lanes is very much a car-oriented town. This is because the population of Cross Lanes isn't large enough or dense enough to support an extensive public transit system. It has a lot of rural roads, and the distance between houses can be quite large, which together tends to discourage walking and bicycling to work. 97.89% of residents commute to work in their own car (and the drive is typically to a job out of town). People also tend to drive out of town for other services as well, such as shopping, doctors appointments, and more.

Cross Lanes 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.

Cross Lanes Information and Demographics

In terms of college education, Cross Lanes is substantially better educated than the typical community in the nation, which has 14.96% of the adults holding a bachelor's degree or graduate degree: 28.02% of adults in Cross Lanes have a college degree.

The per capita income in Cross Lanes in 2000 was $22,719, which is wealthy relative to West Virginia, and upper middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $90,876 for a family of four.

The people who call Cross Lanes home come from a variety of different races and ancestries. The most prevalent race in Cross Lanes is White, followed by African-American. Important ancestries of people in Cross Lanes include English, German, Irish, Italian, and Scotch-Irish.

The most common language spoken in Cross Lanes is English.