Ansted vs Mount Carbon

A side-by-side comparison of Ansted and Mount Carbon: population, income, housing, and more.

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

Ansted has the higher population (1,210 vs 519 in Mount Carbon). Mount Carbon has the higher median home value ($275,000 vs $74,900 in Ansted). Since 2019, Mount Carbon's population has grown faster (+33.4% vs -11.2%).

Population, income & housing

	Ansted	Mount Carbon
Population	1,210	519
Median age	46.0 yrs	52.8 yrs
Median household income	$54,327	—
Median home value	$74,900	$275,000
Median gross rent	$725	—
Housing units	646	190
Homeownership rate	76.1%	78.9%
Bachelor's degree or higher	13.5%	35.2%
Unemployment rate	5.2%	0.0%

Trends (ACS 5-year, 2019–2023)

	Ansted	Mount Carbon
Population	1,362 → 1,210 (-11.2%)	389 → 519 (+33.4%)
Median household income	$35,197 → $54,327 (+54.4%)	—
Median home value	$74,600 → $74,900 (+0.4%)	$140,300 → $275,000 (+96.0%)
Median gross rent	$672 → $725 (+7.9%)	—

Ansted

Population

1,3621,210

Median household income

$35,197$54,327

Median home value

$74,600$74,900

Median gross rent

$672$725

Mount Carbon

Population

389519

Median home value

$140,300$275,000

Age & race/ethnicity

Age distribution (share)

	Ansted	Mount Carbon
Under 5	3.9%	0.0%
5 to 17	12.6%	0.0%
18 to 24	13.6%	19.5%
25 to 34	12.1%	14.5%
35 to 44	5.0%	0.0%
45 to 54	16.4%	19.5%
55 to 64	11.1%	16.6%
65 to 74	14.9%	13.1%
75 and over	10.2%	17.0%

Race & ethnicity (share)

	Ansted	Mount Carbon
White (non-Hispanic)	98.8%	98.1%
Black or African American	0.0%	0.0%
American Indian & Alaska Native	0.0%	1.9%
Asian	0.0%	0.0%
Native Hawaiian & Pacific Islander	0.0%	0.0%
Some other race	0.0%	0.0%
Two or more races	1.2%	0.0%
Hispanic or Latino	0.0%	0.0%

Educational attainment (age 25+)

Share of adults 25+

	Ansted	Mount Carbon
No high school diploma	9.0%	21.1%
High school graduate	46.6%	41.4%
Some college or associate's	30.9%	2.4%
Bachelor's degree	9.1%	35.2%
Graduate or professional degree	4.4%	0.0%

Commute to work

How workers get to work (share)

	Ansted	Mount Carbon
Drove alone	64.2%	78.3%
Carpooled	25.2%	0.0%
Public transit	2.2%	0.0%
Walked	0.0%	0.0%
Bicycle	0.0%	0.0%
Worked from home	8.4%	21.7%
Other means	0.0%	0.0%

Housing

Units in structure (share)

	Ansted	Mount Carbon
1-unit, detached	75.7%	94.7%
1-unit, attached	0.0%	0.0%
2 to 4 units	0.0%	0.0%
5 to 19 units	5.6%	5.3%
20 or more units	0.0%	0.0%
Mobile home & other	18.7%	0.0%

Poverty & households

	Ansted	Mount Carbon
Poverty rate	14.4%	0.0%
Average household size	2.43	2.73
Mean commute (minutes)	36	—
Median year structure built	1959	1979