About Washington

Washington is a somewhat small town located in the state of West Virginia. With a population of 6,553 people and just one neighborhood, Washington is the 29th largest community in West Virginia.

Washington is neither predominently blue-collar or white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Washington is a town of sales and office workers, professionals, and production and manufacturing workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Washington who work in office and administrative support jobs (14.55%), sales jobs (8.48%), and teaching (7.55%).

Because of many things, Washington is a very good place for families to consider. With an enviable combination of good schools, low crime, college-educated neighbors who tend to support education because of their own experiences, and a high rate of home ownership in predominantly single-family properties, Washington really has some of the features that families look for when choosing a good community to raise children. Is Washington perfect? Of course not, and if you like frenetic night life, it will be far from your cup of tea. But overall this is a solid community, with many things to recommend it as a family-friendly place to live.

Washington 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 Washington, which makes walking or biking to and from work a bit difficult. This makes for a very car-oriented town: 99.55% 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, Washington doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.

Washington Information and Demographics

The citizens of Washington are slightly better educated than the national average of 14.96% for all cities and towns, with 17.08% of adults in Washington having a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.

The per capita income in Washington in 2000 was $21,149, 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 $84,596 for a family of four.

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

The most common language spoken in Washington is English.