Comfort vs Danville

A side-by-side comparison of Comfort and Danville: population, income, housing, and more.

Comfort and Danville are places in West Virginia. This page compares them across population, income, housing, education, commuting, and how each has changed since 2019.

Danville has the higher population (634 vs 199 in Comfort). Comfort has the higher median home value ($83,600 vs $77,100 in Danville). Since 2019, Comfort's population has grown faster (+29.2% vs -27.1%).

Population, income & housing

	Comfort	Danville
Population	199	634
Median age	57.2 yrs	48.9 yrs
Median household income	—	$30,000
Median home value	$83,600	$77,100
Median gross rent	—	$557
Housing units	230	308
Homeownership rate	69.1%	43.2%
Bachelor's degree or higher	5.4%	4.5%
Unemployment rate	0.0%	11.1%

Trends (ACS 5-year, 2019–2023)

	Comfort	Danville
Population	154 → 199 (+29.2%)	870 → 634 (-27.1%)
Median household income	$91,818 → $103,182 (+12.4%)	$44,886 → $30,000 (-33.2%)
Median home value	$76,000 → $83,600 (+10.0%)	$66,500 → $77,100 (+15.9%)
Median gross rent	—	$675 → $557 (-17.5%)

Comfort

Population

154199

Median household income

$91,818$103,182

Median home value

$76,000$83,600

Danville

Population

870634

Median household income

$44,886$30,000

Median home value

$66,500$77,100

Median gross rent

$675$557

Age & race/ethnicity

Age distribution (share)

	Comfort	Danville
Under 5	7.5%	9.6%
5 to 17	8.5%	7.7%
18 to 24	0.0%	5.7%
25 to 34	5.5%	13.7%
35 to 44	3.5%	8.0%
45 to 54	0.0%	12.8%
55 to 64	58.8%	7.1%
65 to 74	5.5%	18.0%
75 and over	10.6%	17.4%

Race & ethnicity (share)

	Comfort	Danville
White (non-Hispanic)	100.0%	99.5%
Black or African American	0.0%	0.0%
American Indian & Alaska Native	0.0%	0.0%
Asian	0.0%	0.0%
Native Hawaiian & Pacific Islander	0.0%	0.0%
Some other race	0.0%	0.0%
Two or more races	0.0%	0.5%
Hispanic or Latino	0.0%	0.0%

Educational attainment (age 25+)

Share of adults 25+

	Comfort	Danville
No high school diploma	30.5%	24.6%
High school graduate	53.3%	35.7%
Some college or associate's	10.8%	35.2%
Bachelor's degree	5.4%	4.5%
Graduate or professional degree	0.0%	0.0%

Commute to work

How workers get to work (share)

	Comfort	Danville
Drove alone	85.7%	95.0%
Carpooled	0.0%	1.4%
Public transit	0.0%	0.0%
Walked	0.0%	0.0%
Bicycle	0.0%	0.0%
Worked from home	14.3%	2.1%
Other means	0.0%	1.4%

Housing

Units in structure (share)

	Comfort	Danville
1-unit, detached	57.0%	36.4%
1-unit, attached	0.0%	0.6%
2 to 4 units	27.0%	8.1%
5 to 19 units	0.0%	4.2%
20 or more units	0.0%	22.4%
Mobile home & other	16.1%	28.2%

Poverty & households

	Comfort	Danville
Poverty rate	14.6%	26.5%
Average household size	2.12	2.34
Mean commute (minutes)	—	23
Median year structure built	1972	1978