It is a fairly quiet city 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!) Moundsville 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. Moundsville has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Moundsville than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Moundsville may be for you.
Being a small city, Moundsville does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
The rate of college-level education in Moundsville is quite a bit lower than the national average among all cities of 21.84%: just 12.01% of people here over 25 have a bachelor's degree or an advanced degree.
The per capita income in Moundsville in 2018 was $33,357, which is upper middle income relative to West Virginia, and middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $133,428 for a family of four. However, Moundsville contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Moundsville home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Moundsville residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Moundsville include German, Irish, English, Polish, and Italian.
The most common language spoken in Moundsville is English. Other important languages spoken here include Polish and Spanish.
