Hedgesville is a tiny town located in the state of West Virginia. With a population of 258 people and two constituent neighborhoods, Hedgesville is the 220th largest community in West Virginia. Hedgesville has a large stock of pre-World War II architecture, making it one of the older and more historic towns in the country.

Hedgesville is a blue-collar town, with 35.7% of people working in blue-collar occupations, while the average in America is just 24.7%. Overall, Hedgesville is a town of professionals, transportation and shipping workers, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Hedgesville who work in teaching (10.71%), office and administrative support jobs (9.82%), and sales jobs (8.04%).

Hedgesville is very much a car-oriented town. This is because the population of Hedgesville 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. 100% 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.

Hedgesville 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.

Hedgesville Information and Demographics

The education level of Hedgesville citizens, measured as those with bachelor's degrees or advanced degrees, is similar to the national average for all American cities and towns. 14.77% of adults 25 and older in Hedgesville have a college degree.

The per capita income in Hedgesville in 2000 was $17,772, which is upper middle income relative to West Virginia, and middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $71,088 for a family of four. However, Hedgesville contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

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

The most common language spoken in Hedgesville is English.