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Wellsburg, WV
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Living in Wellsburg



Wellsburg is a very small city located in the state of West Virginia. With a population of 2,346 people and two associated neighborhoods, Wellsburg is the 90th largest community in West Virginia. Wellsburg has a large stock of pre-World War II architecture, making it one of the older and more historic cities in the country.

It is a fairly quiet city 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!) Wellsburg 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. Wellsburg has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Wellsburg than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Wellsburg may be for you.

Being a small city, Wellsburg does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.

In terms of college education, Wellsburg is nearly on par with the US average for all cities of 21.84%: 17.79% of adults 25 and older in Wellsburg have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.

The per capita income in Wellsburg in 2018 was $27,197, which is middle income relative to West Virginia, and lower middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $108,788 for a family of four. However, Wellsburg contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

The people who call Wellsburg home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Wellsburg residents report their race to be White. Important ancestries of people in Wellsburg include Italian, German, English, Irish, and Scots-Irish.

The most common language spoken in Wellsburg is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Spanish.


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