Carolina, WV population, income and ZIP codes

Carolina CDP is a very small community in West Virginia, with 188 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #341 of 439 ranked by population — larger than 22% of them. The median age here is 32.8 years against 39.1 nationally, a distinctly younger profile, typical of places with students, military posts or a fast-growing family population. 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 Carolina CDP earn a median of $19,188 a year, 75.6% below the national figure of $78,538 and 64% below the $52,974 median for the 148 West Virginia cities we cover. This figure covers the household, not the worker: two people on ordinary wages at one address outrank a single professional in the same table. Poverty reaches 48.9% 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 Carolina CDP is valued at $80,500, 73.5% below the national figure and 37% below the $127,200 peer median, while median gross rent runs not published a month. The home-price-to-income ratio works out to 4.2×, against roughly 3.9× nationally, so buying is harder here than in the average US market. 63.6% of occupied homes are owner-occupied versus 65% nationally, so the market leans more heavily on renters. Rent is reported gross — contract rent plus tenant-paid utilities — which is why it runs above the advertised price on a listing for the same unit.

With 188 residents, a handful of survey responses moves every median on this page. Compare Carolina CDP against its county rather than against national figures.

The Census withheld gross rent for Carolina CDP 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.