It is a fairly quiet city 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!) Summersville 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. Summersville has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Summersville than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Summersville may be for you.
Being a small city, Summersville does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
In terms of college education, Summersville 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: 30.30% of adults in Summersville have a college degree.
The per capita income in Summersville in 2022 was $36,745, which is wealthy relative to West Virginia, and middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $146,980 for a family of four. However, Summersville contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Summersville home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Summersville residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Summersville include Irish, German, English, Italian, and Dutch.
The most common language spoken in Summersville is English. Other important languages spoken here include Polish and Italian.
