Alum Creek is a very small town located in the state of West Virginia. With a population of 1,595 people and two associated neighborhoods, Alum Creek is the 122nd largest community in West Virginia.Alum Creek is a blue-collar town, with 38.64% of people working in blue-collar occupations, while the average in America is just 27.7%. Overall, Alum Creek is a town of sales and office workers, service providers, and transportation and shipping workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Alum Creek who work in sales jobs (22.73%), law enforcement and fire fighting (7.79%), and maintenance occupations (7.47%). 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!) Alum Creek 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. Alum Creek has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Alum Creek than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Alum Creek may be for you. Alum Creek is a very car-oriented town. 97.38% of residents commute to work in a private automobile rather than by other means, such as public transit, bicycling, or walking. This is because Alum Creek is a small town , and most people who live here have to drive out of town for work, and the town population is not large nor dense enough to support an extensive public transportation system. Alum Creek has a lot of rural roads, and houses can be far apart. Many residents drive out of town for regular shopping trips as well. Being a small town, Alum Creek does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.The citizens of Alum Creek are slightly less educated than the national average of 21.84% for the average city or town: 14.49% of adults in Alum Creek have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree The per capita income in Alum Creek in 2022 was $34,995, 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 $139,980 for a family of four. However, Alum Creek contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. The people who call Alum Creek home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Alum Creek residents report their race to be White. Important ancestries of people in Alum Creek include English, European, Irish, German, and Polish. The most common language spoken in Alum Creek is English. Other important languages spoken here include Polish and African languages.
