In addition, Moorefield is a college town. There are a lot of students in Moorefield attending college, and as a result Moorefield provides a number of services, amenities and opportunities geared to the needs and activities of students.
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, Moorefield has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Moorefield a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.
Residents of the town have the good fortune of having one of the shortest daily commutes compared to the rest of the country. On average, they spend only 16.23 minutes getting to work every day.
Moorefield 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 Moorefield have a very low rate of college education: just 8.19% of people over 25 have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree, compared to a national average of 21.84% for all cities.
The per capita income in Moorefield in 2022 was $40,327, which is wealthy relative to West Virginia, and upper middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $161,308 for a family of four. However, Moorefield contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Moorefield is a very ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Moorefield home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Moorefield residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Moorefield include German, Irish, Welsh, English, and Italian.
The most common language spoken in Moorefield is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and African languages.
