Fayetteville is a very small town located in the state of West Virginia. With a population of 2,838 people and two associated neighborhoods, Fayetteville is the 80th largest community in West Virginia.Fayetteville is a decidedly white-collar town, with fully 87.50% of the workforce employed in white-collar jobs, well above the national average. Overall, Fayetteville is a town of service providers, professionals, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Fayetteville who work in sales jobs (18.66%), art, media, and design (10.91%), and food service (10.45%). Of important note, Fayetteville is also a town of artists. Fayetteville has more artists, designers and people working in media than 90% of the communities in America. This concentration of artists helps shape Fayetteville’s character. Telecommuters are a relatively large percentage of the workforce: 12.04% of people work from home. While this number may seem small overall, as a fraction of the total workforce it is high relative to the nation. 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!) Fayetteville 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. Fayetteville has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Fayetteville than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Fayetteville may be for you. One downside of living in Fayetteville is that it can take a long time to commute to work. In Fayetteville, the average commute to work is 35.55 minutes, which is quite a bit higher than the national average. Being a small town, Fayetteville does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.The education level of Fayetteville citizens is substantially higher than the typical US community, as 32.41% of adults in Fayetteville have at least a bachelor's degree. The per capita income in Fayetteville in 2022 was $30,764, 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 $123,056 for a family of four. However, Fayetteville contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. The people who call Fayetteville home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Fayetteville residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Fayetteville include English, Irish, German, Dutch, and Scottish. The most common language spoken in Fayetteville is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and German/Yiddish.
