Paw Paw is a tiny town located in the state of West Virginia. With a population of 410 people and two associated neighborhoods, Paw Paw is the 215th largest community in West Virginia.Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, Paw Paw is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 51.90% of the Paw Paw workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 27.7%. Overall, Paw Paw is a town of service providers, transportation and shipping workers, and construction workers and builders. There are especially a lot of people living in Paw Paw who work in office and administrative support (9.49%), food service (8.86%), and maintenance occupations (7.59%). 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!) Paw Paw 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. Paw Paw has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Paw Paw than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Paw Paw may be for you. One downside of living in Paw Paw, however, is that residents on average have to contend with a long commute, spending on average 39.97 minutes every day commuting to work. Paw Paw 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.Paw Paw ranks among the bottom of the nation in terms of college education compared to other cities and towns: only 5.24% of people over 25 have a college degree. The per capita income in Paw Paw in 2022 was $24,498, which is lower middle income relative to West Virginia, and low income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $97,992 for a family of four. However, Paw Paw contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. Paw Paw is a very ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Paw Paw home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Paw Paw residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Paw Paw include Irish, Greek, German, English, and Italian. The most common language spoken in Paw Paw is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Italian.
