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Moorefield, WV
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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.

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.

In addition, Moorefield is a college town. There are a lot of students in Moorefield attending college, and as a result Moorefield provides a number of services, amenities and opportunities geared to the needs and activities of students.

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!) Moorefield 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. Moorefield has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Moorefield than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Moorefield may be for you.

Compared to the rest of the country, citizens of Moorefield spend much less time in their cars: on average, their commute to work is only 16.23 minutes. This also means that noise and pollution levels in the town are less than they would otherwise be.

Moorefield 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.

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.


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