The city is relatively quiet, having a combination of lower population density and few of those groups of people who have a tendency to be noisy. For example, Moundsville has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Moundsville a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.
Being a small city, Moundsville does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
The percentage of people in Moundsville with college degrees is quite a bit lower than the national average for cities and towns of 21.84%: just 12.01% of people over 25 have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in Moundsville in 2022 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.
