About Fort Ashby

Fort Ashby is a very small town located in the state of West Virginia. With a population of 1,405 people and just one neighborhood, Fort Ashby is the 135th largest community in West Virginia.

When you are in Fort Ashby, you'll notice that it is more blue-collar than most other communities in America. 40.9% of Fort Ashby's employed work in blue-collar jobs, while America averages only 24.7% that do. Overall, Fort Ashby is a town of service providers, sales and office workers, and construction workers and builders. There are especially a lot of people living in Fort Ashby who work in office and administrative support jobs (13.30%), teaching (5.91%), and sales jobs (5.58%).

In Fort Ashby, however, the average commute to work is quite long. On average, people spend 36.71 minutes each day getting to work, which is significantly higher than the national average.

Fort Ashby 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 Fort Ashby, which makes walking or biking to and from work a bit difficult. This makes for a very car-oriented town: 96.76% of residents commute to work by private automobile, and people often drive out of town for work, shopping, and other activities.

As is often the case in a small town, Fort Ashby doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.

Fort Ashby Information and Demographics

The percentage of adults in Fort Ashby with college degrees is slightly lower than the national average of 14.96% for all communities. 12.95% of adults in Fort Ashby have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.

The per capita income in Fort Ashby in 2000 was $15,114, which is middle income relative to West Virginia, and lower middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $60,456 for a family of four.

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

The most common language spoken in Fort Ashby is English.