Chesapeake, WV population, income and ZIP codes

Chesapeake town is a small town in West Virginia, with 1,615 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #93 of 439 ranked by population — larger than 78% of them. The median age here is 41.2 years against 39.1 nationally, a slightly older profile than the country as a whole. 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 Chesapeake town earn a median of $60,526 a year, 22.9% below the national figure of $78,538 and 14% above 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 18.5% of residents here, above the 12.4% national rate.

The typical owner-occupied home in Chesapeake town is valued at $83,100, 72.6% below the national figure and 35% below the $127,200 peer median, while median gross rent runs $979 a month, 30.4% below the national figure, or roughly $11,748 across a full year. A household on the local median income would put about 19.4% of gross pay toward that rent against the federal 30% cost-burden threshold, so renting here is cheap relative to what people here earn. The home-price-to-income ratio works out to 1.4×, against roughly 3.9× nationally, so purchase prices are unusually low against local pay, the pattern in places where supply is plentiful and wage growth has been flat. 74.5% of occupied homes are owner-occupied versus 65% nationally, so the market leans toward owners. The rent line includes utilities paid by the tenant, a definition worth remembering when comparing it against a landlord's quoted rate.

Every value on this page is published directly by the Census for this area — nothing is modelled or interpolated. Small-area estimates still carry wider margins of error than state or national figures, so check the linked ACS tables before relying on them for lending, appraisal or legal work.