Chapmanville is a very small town located in the state of West Virginia. With a population of 973 people and three associated neighborhoods, Chapmanville is the 155th largest community in West Virginia.Chapmanville is neither predominantly blue-collar nor white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Chapmanville is a town of sales and office workers, service providers, and construction workers and builders. There are especially a lot of people living in Chapmanville who work in office and administrative support (18.83%), sales jobs (12.65%), and personal care services (7.72%). One interesting thing about the economy is that relatively large numbers of people worked from their home: 12.04% 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. 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!) Chapmanville 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. Chapmanville has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Chapmanville than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Chapmanville may be for you. Chapmanville 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 Chapmanville are slightly less educated than the national average of 21.84% for the average city or town: 13.62% of adults in Chapmanville have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree The per capita income in Chapmanville in 2022 was $28,595, which is upper middle income relative to West Virginia, and lower middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $114,380 for a family of four. The people who call Chapmanville home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Chapmanville residents report their race to be White. Important ancestries of people in Chapmanville include German, Hungarian, Irish, Norwegian, and English. The most common language spoken in Chapmanville is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Polish.
