Alum Creek is a very small town located in the state of West Virginia. With a population of 1,595 people and two associated neighborhoods, Alum Creek is the 122nd largest community in West Virginia.Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, Alum Creek is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 38.64% of the Alum Creek workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 27.7%. Overall, Alum Creek is a town of sales and office workers, service providers, and transportation and shipping workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Alum Creek who work in sales jobs (22.73%), law enforcement and fire fighting (7.79%), and maintenance occupations (7.47%). It is a fairly quiet town because there are relatively few of those groups of people who have a tendency to be noisy. (Children, for example, often can't help themselves from being noisy, and being parents ourselves, we know!) Alum Creek has relatively few families with children living at home, and is quieter because of it. Renters and college students, for their own reasons, can also be noisy. Alum Creek has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Alum Creek than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Alum Creek may be for you. Alum Creek is very much a car-oriented town. This is because the population of Alum Creek 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. 97.38% 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. Being a small town, Alum Creek does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.In terms of college education, the citizens of Alum Creek rank slightly lower than the national average. 14.49% of adults 25 and older in Alum Creek have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree, while 21.84% of adults have a 4-year degree or higher in the average American community. The per capita income in Alum Creek in 2022 was $34,995, 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 $139,980 for a family of four. However, Alum Creek contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. The people who call Alum Creek home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Alum Creek residents report their race to be White. Important ancestries of people in Alum Creek include English, European, Irish, German, and Polish. The most common language spoken in Alum Creek is English. Other important languages spoken here include Polish and African languages.
