Fayetteville is a very small town located in the state of West Virginia. With a population of 2,804 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. 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. The town 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, Fayetteville has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Fayetteville a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here. One downside of living in Fayetteville, however, is that residents on average have to contend with a long commute, spending on average 35.55 minutes every day commuting to work. Fayetteville 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 overall 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, and the average American community has 21.84%. 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.
