Malden, WV population, income and ZIP codes

Malden CDP is a very small community in West Virginia, with 298 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #295 of 439 ranked by population — larger than 32% of them. The median age here is 70.9 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 Malden CDP earn a median of $49,571 a year, 36.9% below the national figure of $78,538 and 6% 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 0% of residents here, less than half the 12.4% national rate.

The typical owner-occupied home in Malden CDP is valued at $153,600, 49.4% below the national figure and 21% above the $127,200 peer median, while median gross rent runs not published a month. The home-price-to-income ratio works out to 3.1×, against roughly 3.9× nationally, so buying is easier here than in the average US market. 93.6% 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. 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.

A median age of 70.9 puts Malden CDP 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 298 residents, a handful of survey responses moves every median on this page. Compare Malden CDP against its county rather than against national figures.

The Census withheld gross rent for Malden 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.