About Kearneysville

Kearneysville is a somewhat small town located in the state of West Virginia. With a population of 6,571 people and just one neighborhood, Kearneysville is the 28th largest community in West Virginia.

Kearneysville is a blue-collar town, with 41.8% of people working in blue-collar occupations, while the average in America is just 24.7%. Overall, Kearneysville is a town of sales and office workers, construction workers and builders, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in Kearneysville who work in office and administrative support jobs (12.07%), sales jobs (7.45%), and management occupations (4.96%).

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

One downside of living in Kearneysville is that it can take a long time to commute to work. In Kearneysville, the average commute to work is 35.51 minutes, which is quite a bit higher than the national average.

Kearneysville 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.

Kearneysville Information and Demographics

In terms of college education, the citizens of Kearneysville rank slightly lower than the national average. 13.58% of adults 25 and older in Kearneysville have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree, while 14.96% of adults have a 4-year degree or higher in the average American community.

The per capita income in Kearneysville in 2000 was $18,422, 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 $73,688 for a family of four.

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

The most common language spoken in Kearneysville is English.