
West Virginia · Census place 08092
Blacksville, WV population, income and ZIP codes
Quick answer
The population of the city of Blacksville, West Virginia (Blacksville, WV — Census place “Blacksville town”) is 59 residents, ranking #407 of 439 places in West Virginia. Median household income is $35,833, the median home is worth — and median gross rent runs — a month. Looking for the Blacksville West Virginia ZIP code list? 1 ZIP codes serve Blacksville, WV: 26521.
- Population
- 59Blacksville town residents
- Median household income
- $35,833Past 12 months, inflation adjusted
- Median home value
- —Owner-occupied units
- Median gross rent
- —Rent plus utilities, monthly
- Median age
- 62.6 yrsAll residents
- Homeownership rate
- 80.6%Owner-occupied households
Blacksville ZIP codes (West Virginia)
Census ZCTAs whose delivery area overlaps Blacksville.
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What the numbers mean in Blacksville town
Housing cost measured against local earnings.
Poverty affects 23.7% of residents and 80.6% of households own their home.
Source: US Census Bureau, ACS 2019-2023 5-year estimates · rates as published for 2019-2023 ACS 5-year
Blacksville town, WV in context
How this area compares with national benchmarks.
Blacksville town is a very small community in West Virginia, with 59 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #407 of 439 ranked by population — larger than 7% of them. The median age here is 62.6 years against 39.1 nationally, a markedly older profile that usually tracks retirees staying put and younger households leaving for work. At this population the ACS sample is small, so the margin of error around every dollar figure below is wide — treat the numbers as a band, not a point, and expect them to move between annual releases without the place itself changing.
Households in Blacksville town earn a median of $35,833 a year, 54.4% below the national figure of $78,538 and 32% below the $52,974 median for the 148 West Virginia cities we cover. The median is the midpoint household, not an average, so a handful of very high earners cannot drag it upward the way they distort a mean. Poverty reaches 23.7% of residents here, well above the 12.4% national rate, which is the single clearest signal in this dataset that median income here is carried by a narrow band of households.
The typical owner-occupied home in Blacksville town is valued at not published, while median gross rent runs not published a month. 80.6% of occupied homes are owner-occupied versus 65% nationally, an owner-dominated market where rental listings are scarce and rent medians rest on a thin sample. Gross rent folds in the utilities a tenant pays separately, so it is closer to the real monthly outlay than a headline rent figure.
A median age of 62.6 puts Blacksville town well into retirement-weighted territory, which pulls median household income down even where household wealth is high, because retirement draws are counted differently from wages. With 59 residents, a handful of survey responses moves every median on this page. Compare Blacksville town against its county rather than against national figures.
The Census withheld home value, gross rent for Blacksville town because the sample was too thin to publish at this geography. Those values were suppressed at the source, not lost in our dataset, and we do not model a replacement. Everything else on this page comes straight from the ACS 2019-2023 ACS 5-year tables.
Compare with nearby places
Places of similar size in West Virginia.
- Charleston city 47,918
- Huntington city 46,189
- Morgantown city 30,273
- Parkersburg city 29,461
- Wheeling city 26,670
- Martinsburg city 18,805
- Weirton city 18,785
- Fairmont city 18,303
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Frequently asked questions
Common questions about this area.
- What is the population of Blacksville town?
- Blacksville town has 59 residents on Census ACS 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, ranking #407 of 439 in West Virginia.
- What is the median household income in Blacksville town?
- Median household income in Blacksville town is $35,833 a year, 54.4% below the national figure of $78,538.
- How much does it cost to rent or buy in Blacksville town?
- Median gross rent is not published a month and the median home value is not published.
- Is Blacksville town affordable compared with the rest of the US?
- The Census does not publish enough home-value or income detail for Blacksville town to compute a reliable affordability ratio.
- How current is this Blacksville town data?
- All figures come from the US Census Bureau American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year five-year estimates. At this population the ACS sample is small, so the margin of error around every dollar figure below is wide — treat the numbers as a band, not a point, and expect them to move between annual releases without the place itself changing.