Fayetteville is a very small town located in the state of West Virginia. With a population of 2,753 people and two associated neighborhoods, Fayetteville is the 80th largest community in West Virginia.Unlike some towns where white-collar or blue-collar occupations dominate the local economy, Fayetteville is neither predominantly one nor the other. Instead, it has a mixed workforce of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Fayetteville is a town of service providers, professionals, and construction workers and builders. There are especially a lot of people living in Fayetteville who work in art, media, and design (11.90%), teaching (10.60%), and sales jobs (10.50%). Of important note, Fayetteville is also a town of artists. Fayetteville has more artists, designers and people working in media than 90% of the communities in America. This concentration of artists helps shape Fayetteville’s character. Telecommuters are a relatively large percentage of the workforce: 15.66% of people work from home. While this number may seem small overall, as a fraction of the total workforce it is high relative to the nation. These workers are often telecommuters who work in knowledge-based, white-collar professions. For example, Silicon Valley has large numbers of people who telecommute. Other at-home workers may be self-employed people who operate small businesses out of their homes. The town is relatively quiet, having a combination of lower population density and few of those groups of people who have a tendency to be noisy. For example, Fayetteville has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Fayetteville a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here. In Fayetteville, however, the average commute to work is quite long. On average, people spend 33.43 minutes each day getting to work, which is significantly higher than the national average. Fayetteville 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.In terms of college education, Fayetteville is somewhat better educated than the 21.84% who have a 4-year degree or higher in the typical US community: 26.80% of adults 25 and older in the town have at least a bachelor's degree. The per capita income in Fayetteville in 2022 was $31,306, 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 $125,224 for a family of four. However, Fayetteville contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. The people who call Fayetteville home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Fayetteville residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Fayetteville include English, German, Irish, Polish, and Italian. The most common language spoken in Fayetteville is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and German/Yiddish.
