Huntington is a larger medium-sized city located in the state of West Virginia. With a population of 51,529 people and 26 constituent neighborhoods, Huntington is the second largest community in West Virginia.

Huntington is neither predominently blue-collar or white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Huntington is a city of sales and office workers, professionals, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in Huntington who work in sales jobs (16.03%), office and administrative support jobs (15.98%), and food service (8.61%).

Because there are quite a few people attending college in Huntington, it is thought of as a college town. To the benefit of the many students in the area, Huntington provides a number of services, amenities and opportunities geared towards their needs and activities.

One of the benefits of Huntington is that there is very little traffic. The average commute to work is 17.75 minutes, which is substantially less than the national average. Not only does this mean that the drive to work is less aggravating, but noise and pollution levels are lower as a result.

For the size of the city, public transportation in Huntington is quite heavily used. Mostly, people who use it for their daily commute are taking the bus. For Huntington, the benefits are reduced air pollution and congestion on the highways.

Huntington Information and Demographics

The percentage of people in Huntington who are college-educated is somewhat higher than the average US community of 14.96%: 22.43% of adults in Huntington have at least a bachelor's degree.

The per capita income in Huntington in 2000 was $16,717, 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 $66,868 for a family of four.

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

The most common language spoken in Huntington is English.