Chattaroy, WV population, income and ZIP codes

Chattaroy CDP is a very small community in West Virginia, with 577 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #212 of 439 ranked by population — larger than 51% of them. The median age here is 31.2 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 Chattaroy CDP earn a median of $23,321 a year, 70.3% below the national figure of $78,538 and 56% 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 86.7% 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 Chattaroy CDP is valued at not published, while median gross rent runs $903 a month, 35.8% below the national figure, or roughly $10,836 across a full year. A household on the local median income would put about 46.5% of gross pay toward that rent against the federal 30% cost-burden threshold, so renting here is severely stretched — a median-income renter clears the cost-burden line by a wide margin before utilities beyond the gross-rent definition. 59% 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 577 residents, a handful of survey responses moves every median on this page. Compare Chattaroy CDP against its county rather than against national figures.

The Census withheld home value for Chattaroy 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.