Moorefield is a very small town located in the state of West Virginia. With a population of 2,495 people and two associated neighborhoods, Moorefield is the 89th largest community in West Virginia.Unlike some towns where white-collar or blue-collar occupations dominate the local economy, Moorefield is neither predominantly one nor the other. Instead, it has a mixed workforce of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Moorefield is a town of service providers, sales and office workers, and production and manufacturing workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Moorefield who work in maintenance occupations (23.72%), sales jobs (10.34%), and office and administrative support (8.80%). One interesting thing about the economy is that relatively large numbers of people worked from their home: 13.40% of the workforce. While this number may seem small overall, as a fraction of the total workforce this is high compared to the rest of the county. These workers are often telecommuters who work in knowledge-based, white-collar professions. For example, Silicon Valley has large numbers of people who telecommute. Other at-home workers may be self-employed people who operate small businesses out of their homes.Moorefield is also a college town, where lots of students live while attending area colleges. Because of the high percentage of people living in Moorefield enrolled in college, Moorefield has a number of services, amenities and opportunities geared towards the needs and activities of students. 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!) Moorefield 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. Moorefield has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Moorefield than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Moorefield may be for you. Residents of the town have the good fortune of having one of the shortest daily commutes compared to the rest of the country. On average, they spend only 16.23 minutes getting to work every day. Moorefield 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 citizens of Moorefield have a very low rate of college education: just 8.19% of people over 25 have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree, compared to a national average of 21.84% for all cities. The per capita income in Moorefield in 2022 was $40,327, 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 $161,308 for a family of four. However, Moorefield contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. Moorefield is a very ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Moorefield home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Moorefield residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Moorefield include German, Irish, Welsh, English, and Italian. The most common language spoken in Moorefield is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and African languages.
