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, West Jefferson has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes West Jefferson a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.
One of the benefits of West Jefferson is that there is very little traffic. The average commute to work is 18.57 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.
Being a small town, West Jefferson does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
The citizens of West Jefferson are slightly less educated than the national average of 21.84% for the average city or town: 14.57% of adults in West Jefferson have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree
The per capita income in West Jefferson in 2022 was $23,043, which is lower middle income relative to North Carolina, and low income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $92,172 for a family of four. However, West Jefferson contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
West Jefferson is a somewhat ethnically-diverse town. The people who call West Jefferson home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of West Jefferson residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in West Jefferson include English, Irish, German, Scottish, and French.
The most common language spoken in West Jefferson is English. Other important languages spoken here include Vietnamese and Greek.
