Harpers Ferry is a somewhat small town located in the state of West Virginia. With a population of 10,941 people and two constituent neighborhoods, Harpers Ferry is the 15th largest community in West Virginia.

Harpers Ferry is neither predominently blue-collar or white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Harpers Ferry is a town of sales and office workers, professionals, and construction workers and builders. There are especially a lot of people living in Harpers Ferry who work in office and administrative support jobs (13.24%), sales jobs (9.95%), and management occupations (8.11%).

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

In Harpers Ferry, however, the average commute to work is quite long. On average, people spend 46.09 minutes each day getting to work, which is significantly higher than the national average.

Harpers Ferry Information and Demographics

The citizens of Harpers Ferry are slightly better educated than the national average of 14.96% for all cities and towns, with 18.78% of adults in Harpers Ferry having a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.

The per capita income in Harpers Ferry in 2000 was $21,751, 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 $87,004 for a family of four.

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

The most common language spoken in Harpers Ferry is English. Some people also speak Spanish.