Fayetteville is a very small town located in the state of West Virginia. With a population of 2,838 people and two associated neighborhoods, Fayetteville is the 80th largest community in West Virginia.
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.
One interesting thing about the economy is that relatively large numbers of people worked from their home: 12.04% of the workforce. While this number may seem small overall, as a fraction of the total workforce this is high compared to the rest of the county. 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.
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!) Fayetteville 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. Fayetteville has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Fayetteville than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Fayetteville may be for you.
One downside of living in Fayetteville, however, is that residents on average have to contend with a long commute, spending on average 35.55 minutes every day commuting to work.
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 substantially better educated than the typical community in the nation, which has 21.84% of the adults holding a bachelor's degree or graduate degree: 32.41% of adults in Fayetteville have a college degree.
The per capita income in Fayetteville in 2022 was $30,764, 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 $123,056 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, Irish, German, Dutch, and Scottish.
The most common language spoken in Fayetteville is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and German/Yiddish.