Grafton is a very small city located in the state of West Virginia. With a population of 4,589 people and three associated neighborhoods, Grafton is the 35th largest community in West Virginia. Much of the housing stock in Grafton was built prior to World War II, making it one of the older and more historic cities in the country.Grafton is neither predominantly blue-collar nor white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Grafton is a city of sales and office workers, service providers, and transportation and shipping workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Grafton who work in sales jobs (17.55%), office and administrative support (15.63%), and management occupations (7.20%). 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!) Grafton 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. Grafton has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Grafton than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Grafton may be for you. Grafton is a small city, and as such doesn't have a public transit system that people use to get to and from their jobs every day.In Grafton, just 11.27% of people have at least a bachelor's degree, which is quite a bit lower than the national average for cities and towns of 21.84%. The per capita income in Grafton in 2022 was $24,504, which is lower middle income relative to West Virginia, and low income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $98,016 for a family of four. However, Grafton contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. The people who call Grafton home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Grafton residents report their race to be White, followed by Asian. Important ancestries of people in Grafton include German, Irish, Italian, English, and Scottish. The most common language spoken in Grafton is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Polish.
