Clay, WV population, income and ZIP codes

Clay town is a very small community in West Virginia, with 485 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #236 of 439 ranked by population — larger than 46% of them. The median age here is 29 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 Clay town earn a median of not published a year. Household income here is measured before tax and pooled across everyone at the address, which is why it reads higher than typical individual earnings in the same area. Poverty reaches 75.7% 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 Clay town is valued at $58,800, 80.6% below the national figure and 54% below the $127,200 peer median, while median gross rent runs $668 a month, 52.5% below the national figure, or roughly $8,016 across a full year. 25.6% of occupied homes are owner-occupied versus 65% nationally, a renter-majority market, so rent figures matter more here than the home-value line. The rent line includes utilities paid by the tenant, a definition worth remembering when comparing it against a landlord's quoted rate.

A median age of 29 means a large student or early-career population; income medians in places like this understate household resources, since many residents are supported from outside the address. With 485 residents, a handful of survey responses moves every median on this page. Compare Clay town against its county rather than against national figures.

The Census withheld household income for Clay 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.