Alum Creek is a very small town located in the state of West Virginia. With a population of 1,595 people and two associated neighborhoods, Alum Creek is the 122nd largest community in West Virginia.Alum Creek is neither predominantly blue-collar nor white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Alum Creek is a town of sales and office workers, service providers, and production and manufacturing workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Alum Creek who work in sales jobs (31.64%), law enforcement and fire fighting (10.82%), and community and social services (8.52%). It is a fairly quiet town because there are relatively few of those groups of people who have a tendency to be noisy. (Children, for example, often can't help themselves from being noisy, and being parents ourselves, we know!) Alum Creek has relatively few families with children living at home, and is quieter because of it. Renters and college students, for their own reasons, can also be noisy. Alum Creek has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Alum Creek than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Alum Creek may be for you. Alum Creek is very much a car-oriented town. This is because the population of Alum Creek isn't large enough or dense enough to support an extensive public transit system. It has a lot of rural roads, and the distance between houses can be quite large, which together tends to discourage walking and bicycling to work. 100.00% of residents commute to work in their own car (and the drive is typically to a job out of town). People also tend to drive out of town for other services as well, such as shopping, doctors appointments, and more. Alum Creek is a small town, and as such doesn't have a public transit system that people use to get to and from their jobs every day.The percentage of people in Alum Creek with college degrees is quite a bit lower than the national average for cities and towns of 21.84%: just 11.83% of people over 25 have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree. The per capita income in Alum Creek in 2022 was $36,534, which is wealthy relative to West Virginia, and upper middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $146,136 for a family of four. The people who call Alum Creek home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Alum Creek residents report their race to be White. Important ancestries of people in Alum Creek include English, Irish, German, European, and Danish. The most common language spoken in Alum Creek is English. Other important languages spoken here include Polish and African languages.
