Moorefield is a very small town located in the state of West Virginia. With a population of 2,495 people and two associated neighborhoods, Moorefield is the 89th largest community in West Virginia.Moorefield is neither predominantly blue-collar nor white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Moorefield is a town of service providers, sales and office workers, and production and manufacturing workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Moorefield who work in maintenance occupations (23.72%), sales jobs (10.34%), and office and administrative support (8.80%). A relatively large number of people in Moorefield telecommute to their jobs. Overall, about 13.40% of the workforce works from home. While this may seem like a small number, as a fraction of the total workforce it ranks among the highest in the country. 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.Moorefield is also a college town, where lots of students live while attending area colleges. Because of the high percentage of people living in Moorefield enrolled in college, Moorefield has a number of services, amenities and opportunities geared towards the needs and activities of students. 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, Moorefield has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Moorefield a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here. One of the benefits of Moorefield is that there is very little traffic. The average commute to work is 16.23 minutes, which is substantially less than the national average. Not only does this mean that the drive to work is less aggravating, but noise and pollution levels are lower as a result. As is often the case in a small town, Moorefield doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.The population of Moorefield has a very low overall level of education: only 8.19% of people over 25 hold a 4-year college degree or higher. The per capita income in Moorefield in 2022 was $40,327, 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 $161,308 for a family of four. However, Moorefield contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. Moorefield is a very ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Moorefield home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Moorefield residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Moorefield include German, Irish, Welsh, English, and Italian. The most common language spoken in Moorefield is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and African languages.
