Follansbee is a very small city located in the state of West Virginia. With a population of 2,686 people and two associated neighborhoods, Follansbee is the 83rd largest community in West Virginia.Follansbee is neither predominantly blue-collar nor white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Follansbee is a city of service providers, sales and office workers, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in Follansbee who work in food service (18.00%), sales jobs (10.58%), and management occupations (10.02%). Being a small city, Follansbee does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.The citizens of Follansbee are slightly better educated than the national average of 21.84% for all cities and towns, with 22.82% of adults in Follansbee having a bachelor's degree or advanced degree. The per capita income in Follansbee in 2022 was $44,397, 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 $177,588 for a family of four. However, Follansbee contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. The people who call Follansbee home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Follansbee residents report their race to be White. Important ancestries of people in Follansbee include Italian, German, Irish, English, and Norwegian. The most common language spoken in Follansbee is English. Other important languages spoken here include Polish and Greek.
