Morgantown, West Virginia Population 2024 (2024)

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Morgantown has a 2024 population of 30,385. Morgantown is currently growing at a rate of 0.18% annually and its population has increased by 0.72% since the most recent census, which recorded a population of 30,169 in 2020. The average household income in Morgantown is $68,197 with a poverty rate of 34.37%.

Morgantown shows continued population growth for the last 20 years, and is located in one of the fastest growing counties in the state.

The annual unsheltered, street count, identified three additional families with children and 10 unaccompanied youth under 18 in the City of Morgantown. These annual counts reveal around 120-125 persons experiencing homelessness on a given day in Monongalia County.

This downtrend will accelerate after 2020 through at least 2030. Overall we project the state's 2030 population to be 1,833,536, which represents a loss of nearly 19,500 people between 2010 and 2030.

Charleston is the capital and most populous city of the U.S. state of West Virginia and the county seat of Kanawha County.

The most populous city in North Central West Virginia and the third-most populous city in the state, Morgantown is best known as the home of West Virginia University.

The overall population of West Virginia is on a downward slope. The state had 1,770,071 residents in July 2023, which was 23,642 fewer than in April 2020. This pattern of population decline has been ongoing since the 1950s. At that time, the state had a peak population of two million.

An organization based in West Virginia is offering $20,000 worth of incentives to people relocating to the state. This includes $12,000 in cash, a year of free recreational activities and outdoor gear rental, a free co-working space, and social programming to help newcomers connect to their new communities.

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Morgantown, West Virginia is one of the best small cities in the country, noted for its strong economy and quality of life.

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Morgantown, WV is home to a population of 140k people, from which 97.4% are citizens. As of 2022, 4.02% of Morgantown, WV residents were born outside of the country (5.64k people). In 2022, there were 21.5 times more White (Non-Hispanic) residents (123k people) in Morgantown, WV than any other race or ethnicity.

State highlights

Eight states continued to lose residents in 2023—New York (-0.52), Louisiana (-0.31%), Hawaii (-0.3%), Illinois (-0.26%), West Virginia (-0.22%), California (-0.19%), Oregon (-0.14%), and Pennsylvania (-0.08%)—and all did so at a slower pace than in the previous year.

The proportion of West Virginia's population that is 60 and older is growing more rapidly than other components of the population. The U.S. Census Bureau estimates that 30 percent of West Virginia's population will be 60 and older by the year 2030, an increase of more than 32 percent from 2012.

How has West Virginia's population changed over the years? West Virginia's population increased 2 out of the 12 years between year 2010 and year 2022. Its largest annual population increase was 0.1% between 2010 and 2011.

Approximately 43,000 people moved to West Virginia from another state last year, though that's 1,000 fewer than moved to the state in 2021. The number of people who moved away from West Virginia to another state rose from 36,000 people in 2021 to approximately 41,000 people in 2022.