The overall crime rate in Paw Paw is one of the lowest in the US. This makes it one of the safer places to live in the country in terms of crime.
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!) Paw Paw 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. Paw Paw has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Paw Paw than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Paw Paw may be for you.
In Paw Paw, however, the average commute to work is quite long. On average, people spend 41.36 minutes each day getting to work, which is significantly higher than the national average.
Being a small town, Paw Paw does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
In Paw Paw, just 6.56% of people over 25 hold a college degree, which is very low compared to the rest of the nation, whereas the average among all cities is 21.84%.
The per capita income in Paw Paw in 2022 was $27,620, 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 $110,480 for a family of four. However, Paw Paw contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Paw Paw is a somewhat ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Paw Paw home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Paw Paw residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Paw Paw include Irish, German, English, Greek, and European.
The most common language spoken in Paw Paw is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Italian.
