West Virginia is “the only state losing population.” West Virginia lost residents over two timeframes: between the 2020 census and a 2024 population estimate, and between 2023 and 2024 population ...

At this point there’s not much left to say except maybe to ask if we’ve been looking at it all wrong. Thursday morning, the Census Bureau released its county estimates of population for July 1, 2023.

Projections indicate that several areas in West Virginia are facing the very real possibility of population death. Particularly in areas where the dying coal industry was big […] ...

CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Gov. Jim Justice says he’s not overly concerned about the latest population numbers from the U.S. Census Bureau. Gov. Jim Justice Those numbers, released earlier this week, show ...

The steady population decline has been an ongoing challenge for West Virginia. The number of residents has dropped from a peak of just over 2-million in 1950 to 1,782,959 as of July 1, 2021, according ...